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DLTK's Holiday Activities for
Kids Heart Lion Paper Craft
Read a bit about
DLTK's
Grow With Me Craft Concept to get some ideas on how this
basic craft idea can be used with different materials to make
it appropriate for everyone from ages 2 thru 82!
Tip 1: Include the message "You make my heart
ROAR!"
Tip 2: Glue the heart animal to the front of a folded over piece
of construction paper or a doily to make a cute Valentine's Day card.
Tip 3: Purchase fancy paper from the scrapbooking store and print
the B&W version onto this for an extra fancy Heart Animal.
Tip 4: Scotch tape a straw or popsicle stick to the
bottom to make a puppet
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Tip 5: Glue a small piece of sandpaper on the back
to make a felt board character
Tip 6: Cut construction paper into 4 inch wide strips
as long as you can make them. Tape two together to make even longer.
Measure around child's head to make a construction paper 'crown'.
Glue Heart Animal to front of the crown to make a Valentine's Day hat.
Materials:
Directions:
- Print out the template of choice. I like printing the B&W
version on colored paper.
- Color (where appropriate).
- Cut out the template pieces.
- Glue pieces together:
Glue the small heart nose onto the heart
face, just below the eyes. |
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Glue the heart ears onto either side of the
heart head. |
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Glue the four of the heart mane pieces onto
the back of the heart head... top, bottom, left and right. |
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Glue the remaining four of the heart mane
pieces onto the back of the heart head, filling in the
spaces between the ones you glued on in the previous step. |
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Glue the large heart
body piece upside down under the heart head. |
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Glue the smaller heart
body piece upside down behind the first body piece. |
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Glue the heart tail behind the heart
body and you're finished! |
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Option for mass-producing - young children:
Print out the B&W template. Trace the pieces onto stiff cardboard
(back of paper pads works well) or margarine/ice cream container lids.
Cut out to make permanent templates. Allow the children to trace
these permanent templates onto different colors of construction paper to
make their animal
Option for mass-producing - older children:
Omit the templates. Let the children cut out heart shapes in various
sizes from colored construction paper (show them how to fold paper in half
and then cut to make a perfectly symmetrical heart). Let the children
create their own animals by putting together hearts of different sizes (you
can pre-make a few example animals to give them some inspiration).
Templates:
- Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
- Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template
on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
Heart Lion template
(color) or
(B&W)
Printable Version of these instructions
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