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Paper Plate Animals
Make your animal-themed activities interesting and fun
with these easy paper plate animals.
Safety Tips
Kids 8 years and younger should use
child-safe scissors.
Watch out for this sign . It means
adult help is needed for the particular
step.
Materials
Paper plate
Any water-based paint
White glue
Scissors
Paint brush
Wiggle eyes
Construction paper
Crayons or markers
Craft stick, pompoms, other decorative materials
Steps
1.
Think about what animal you want to make
Imagine a paper plate to be the animal's head. What do you
need to decorate the paper plate with to make it more look like
the animal you have in mind?
2.
Make the ears and other special parts
The next step involves cutting out head parts that need to be
painted the same color as the head. For most animals, this will
involve cutting out a pair of ears out of construction paper or
cardboard.
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Some animals, like the elephant, will need additional parts, like
its long trunk.
3.
Attach the ears
With the paper plate's right side up, glue the pair of ears on
either side of the plate. Allow the glue to dry.
If your animal has other parts that need to be glued on, flip the
paper plate over so that the bottom side is facing up, before
gluing on the trunk or other head parts.
4.
Paint the animal
Remember to position the paper plate bottom side up with the
ears glued at the back. Paint the animal with any water-based
paint.
Paint on some spots or stripes if your animal has these patterns.
You can finger paint or use a paint brush. If you want to try
something new, you can make your own potato stamps or fruit
and vegetable stamps to make the animal patterns. After you're
done painting, allow the paint to dry completely.
5.
Add eyes
When the paint has dried, you can add the remaining facial
features. To make the eyes, you can glue on wiggle eyes,
buttons or paper cut-outs.
6.
Make the nose and mouth
For a lot of animals, you can simply draw or paint on the nose
and mouth. Examples are shown below that include a leopard,
tiger and lion.
Some animals like this giraffe, have snouts. To make a snout,
cut out an oval shape from construction paper and draw the
animal's nostrils and mouth on it. You can use crayons, oil
pastels, colored pencils or markers for drawing.
Glue the snout onto to the paper plate head. To make the
animal's head a little less round, position the snout so that it
protrudes a little bit along the bottom of the plate. You can do
this with long-faced animals such as giraffes, horses, cows or
goats.
7.
Additional details
You can add additional details if you like. This giraffe needs a
pair of horns and I made them by cutting a craft stick in half
and gluing them at the back of the paper plate. The craft sticks
can be colored or painted before gluing on circles out of
construction paper at the tips of the horns.
8.
This giraffe illustrates the basic steps for making paper plate
animals. More ideas for making these animals are presented in
the section below.
More Ideas
Paper Plate Tiger and Leopard
Children will surely enjoy exploring and painting the different
patterns and colors that animals have. This craft can also be
used to learn about the similarities and differences of animals
belonging to the same family or classification.
Paper Plate Lion
The important detail for making a lion is its mane. Cut out strips
of brown construction paper or crepe paper and glue these
around the back edge of the paper plate.
Paper Plate Elephant
As shown in the tutorial above (Step 3), a long trunk out of
cardboard or construction paper is attached to the paper plate
prior to painting. The lines or creases can be painted on or
drawn with a crayon. When using a crayon, make sure the
painted paper plate is dry before drawing the lines or other
details.
Paper Plate Puppy
If you don't feel like making a messy craft, you can skip the
painting step altogether. This puppy just needed brown paper
cut-outs for the ears and the patch around the eyes. The nose
was cut out from thick craft foam to give it a more three-
dimensional feel.
Paper Plate Rabbit
To add fluff to this rabbit, a pompom
was glued on for the nose and a
fluffy snout was created out of
cotton.
Paper Plate Zebra
The steps for making this zebra are almost identical to that of
the giraffe except for the tufts of hair at the top of the zebra's
head. To make these hair (or mane), cut thin strips of black
construction paper and glue these at the back of the paper plate,
in the area between the ears.
Paper Plate Cow
Craft sticks are great for making animal horns although you can
also make horns out of construction paper or cardboard.
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Paper Plate Reindeer
Handprints are an easy way of making antlers. See how it's done
in our paper plate reindeer craft.
Paper Plate Bear
Add fuzz or fur to the animal by gluing on cotton or paper towel
strips onto the paper plate. Check out our Fuzzy Paper Plate
Bear craft to learn how to make a furry polar bear, brown bear,
black bear, and panda bear.
The Three Little Pigs
Paper plate animals are great for storytelling or role playing.
Make a handle by gluing a wooden dowel at the back of the
paper plate so that the dowel spans the top and bottom edges of
the plate. If you don't have a dowel, you can glue or tape two
craft sticks end-to-end like I did so that it makes a long handle.
Give the animals lots of character by drawing expressive
mouths, eyebrows or even distinct facial features like freckles or
mustaches. Hats, bows and wearable details can further give
them character. If you want to wear them as masks, simply cut
out eyeholes on the paper plate.
I hope this tutorial has given you a lot of ideas for making your
own paper plate animals. For more amazing animal crafts, check
out our Animal Crafts page. Have fun!
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The Mr. Bo-Bo Picture Book Series
So cute! The doggie paper plate looks a lot like my dog, Mr. Bo-Bo.
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Haha, that's awesome. Give some hugs to Mr Bo-Bo!
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Anita Yambi United Methodist University
My pupils love all.every art so cute
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Virginia Balunsat Zamboanga City
so creative....i'm sure my school kiddies will love and enjoy doing this...tnx mucho for this!!
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Meenal Jain Samrat Ashok Technological Institute (SATI)
nice ,I like it
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Catrinaprettybrowneyes Henderson Cedar Valley College
Awesome
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