Arctic Animal Crafts

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through crafts and activities. You will find hundreds of inexpensive crafts and activities including complete Sunday
school lessons and Bible-based lessons for Christian home schools.

Arctic Animal Crafts For Kids

Polar Bear Crafts for Kids

Polar Bear Dessert Dish Craft for Kids
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

What you will need: 2 Styrofoam dinner plates, Styrofoam bowl, 4 - 5 oz. Dixie Cups, 1 - 9 oz. Styrofoam cup, white acrylic paint, low temp. hot melt glue and a black marker.

What to do:

Make the four legs first. Cut the top edge off the cups. Cut a line all the way down the side seam to the bottom of the cups. Roll the cups up so that they are smaller on the tops of the cups as shown in the picture. Cut off the parts of the cups that hang over. Glue the sides together with a low temp hot melt glue gun. Squeeze the top of the cup together and glue closed. If you don't have a glue gun, staple them together. Glue or staple the legs to the top of a paper plate. (Glue the front legs on as shown in the picture. Glue the back legs on the opposite way.) Paint the legs white. Use a black marker to draw on the footprints. Cut out a small tail and glue it to the plate.

Turn another dinner-sized paper plate upside down and glue or staple it on top of the plate with the feet and tail.

To make the head, cut two one-inch slits in the rim of the cup about 2 inches apart so that it fits onto the rim of the polar bear's body. Cut ears from another Styrofoam cup and glue them to the head.

To finish, cut a circle in the top plate a little smaller than the rim of your bowl. Place the bowl inside the plates. You can glue it down or leave it so it can be removed.

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Folded Paper Polar Bear Craft for Kids
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

Just print out, cut out, and fold in half. This craft is available to members only. It can be used in an Arctic scene or as a placeholder.

Click here to go to the pattern and directions.

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"Let it Snow! Polar Bear Poster Craft for Kids
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

What you will need: Color printer, paper, glitter glue, and foam snowflakes or snowflake stickers. You can buy foam snowflakes and snowflake stickers from Oriental Trading Company. Type in 48/5770, 12/742, or 48/2336 in the search box at the top of the page

What to do:

1. Print out the picture or use another picture, and glue it to cardboard. (This picture is available to members only.)

2. Glue foam snowflakes around the edge of the picture.

3. Place a dot of glitter glue on each tiny white snowflake in the picture.

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Bottle Polar Bear Craft for Kids
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

What you will need: plastic soda bottle, 3-oz. paper Dixie Cup, white fun foam, white, pink, and black acrylic paint, glue gun and glue.

What to do:

1. Cut the rim off the 3-oz Dixie cup and the top 3" of the soda bottle so that the cup fits snuggly onto the bottle. Glue it to the top of your soda bottle as shown in the picture. Paint the cup and bottle white with acrylic paint. You will have to use at least two coats of paint. Let dry.

2. Roll up pieces of fun foam and glue closed to make the legs and arms. Cut the ends to fit on the bottle. Glue them onto the bottle with a hot melt glue. Cut the paw end rounded and glue closed. Draw on toes, eyes, and nose with a black Sharpie marker.

3. Cut ear shapes from white fun foam and glue to the head as shown. Paint the insides of the ears pink.

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Polar Bear Posters from AllPosters.com

Polar Bear Family Poster
Ward, Kennan
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Polar Bear, Ursus Maritimus with 2-3 Month Old Cub Photographic Print
Rosing, Norbert
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Polar Bear Family Mini Poster
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Bad Boys of the Arctic, Polar Bears Art Print
Mangelsen, Thomas...
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Polar Bears Art Print
Bilenduke, Wayne...
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Puffin Crafts For Kids

Paper Plate Puffin Craft For Kids
© 2005, Carolyn Warvel

What you will need: 1 9-inch paper dinner plate, 2 6-inch paper plates, orange card stock or cardboard, hot melt glue gun, and orange, black, white, and yellow paint.

What to do:

1. Print out the patterns for the body, head and feet (Available to members only.)

2. Paint one 6-inch plate black and let it dry. Then fold it in half to make the wings.

3. Use the head pattern to fold the head. First fold a 6-inch plate in half. Fold both ends of the plate back and then forth at the fold lines. Push the folded center line in on each end of the plate to make pleats as shown in the diagram at the right. Glue the pleats closed. Use the pattern to paint the puffin's head.

4. To make the body fold the large paper plate in half and cut a 1/2" slit up one end of the folded side of the plate. Fold up the edges as shown in the pattern and the picture above. Glue the paper plate together in the belly area.

5. Fold the feet in half and then fold up both feet. Stick the folded edge of the feet into the bottom of the folded large paper plate and glue them to the paper plate. Glue the rest of the body together along the inside edge of the plate.

6. Glue the wing on just at the very top. Glue the head onto the body as shown and then glue the rest closed.

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Walrus Paper Plate Craft

What you will need: Two-10 1/4" paper plates, four-6 inch paper plates, two plastic spoons or straws, yarn, paint, scissors, hot melt glue and gun, black permanent marker.

What to do:

1. Glue two big plates together, top-to-top, for the body and two small plates together, top-to-top, for the head. Glue the head to the body.

walrus diagram 2. To make the muzzle fold a small paper plate in half and then fold back the sides as shown in the diagram to the right. Glue the folded sides to the back of the plate. Push up the top, bottom part of the paper plate and glue it in place as shown in the diagram. Cut the scoop ends off two spoons and glue the spoons inside the muzzle for the tusks.