5 Groundhog Day Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three Groundhog Day crafts that always work

Groundhog chalk shadowChalk around a cut-out, a three does itGroundhog headbandColor a face, tape a strip, wear itPop-up cup groundhogPops up and hides, the one they replay

5 Groundhog Day crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Groundhog headband

The child colours a groundhog face and it is attached to a paper strip to wear as a headband.

You need: a round groundhog face drawn on white cardstock, brown crayon, pink crayon, 2 long green paper strips, glue stick

How to make it

1. Your child colours the face brown, and the nose and the insides of the ears pink.
2. You cut out the face.
3. Glue the 2 long green strips together end to end with a short overlap to make one band.
4. Glue the face over the join in the middle of the band.

2. Groundhog chalk shadow

The child holds a groundhog cut-out on black paper, rubs chalk round its edge and lifts it to reveal a shadow shape.

You need: 1 sheet of black paper, white chalk, cardstock

How to make it

1. You cut a chubby sitting groundhog from cardstock.
2. Hold the cut-out down in the middle of the black paper. Keep your finger on it so it stays in place.
3. Your child scribbles white chalk all around it, starting each stroke on the cardstock and dragging outward.
4. Rub the chalk with the flat of the fingers into a soft hazy cloud.
5. Lift the cut-out away to show the black groundhog.

3. Toilet roll groundhog

The child draws a face on a pinched brown tube, adds paper ears and wraps fringed green paper round the bottom as grass.

You need: 1 toilet paper roll, brown paint, brown paper, 2 googly eyes, green paper, black marker, glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints the roll brown. Let it dry.
2. Pinch the top of the roll inward from two sides so two rounded flaps meet as a head.
3. You cut 2 brown half circles. Glue them on top as ears and the googly eyes near the top front.
4. Draw a nose, 2 front teeth and whisker dots below the eyes with the marker.
5. Cut a green strip and snip a fringe along one long edge. Glue it around the bottom with the fringe pointing up as grass.

4. Pop-up cup groundhog

The child pushes a groundhog on a stick up and down through a hole in a decorated paper cup burrow.

You need: 1 paper cup, green paper, brown paper, white paper, 1 craft stick, black marker, glue

How to make it

1. You cut a green strip and snip a fringe along one edge. Your child glues it around the cup as grass.
2. Cut a brown oval head with 2 small round ears. Your child draws 2 dot eyes and a nose on it.
3. Cut a small white rectangle and glue it under the nose as teeth.
4. Glue the head to the top of the craft stick.
5. Cut a slit in the bottom of the cup. Push the stick through it so the head pops up above the rim.

5. Paper plate groundhog puppet

The child colours a plate brown with dot markers, adds ears, eyes, teeth and a nose, and tapes it to a stick.

You need: 1 white paper plate, brown dot marker, brown paper, 2 googly eyes, black paper, white paper, 1 craft stick and glue

How to make it

1. Your child colors the plate brown with the dot marker, dot after dot.
2. You cut 2 brown half circles. Glue them at the top as ears and the 2 googly eyes near the middle.
3. Cut a black nose and 2 white rectangles. Glue the nose below the eyes and the rectangles under it as front teeth.
4. Glue the craft stick to the back at the bottom as the handle.

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Groundhog Day crafts with a 3 year old

The chalk shadow is the one that explains the day. Hold the cut-out on black paper, rub chalk around the edge, lift it, and there is the shadow. A three year old can do the rubbing alone.

A three year old can color the headband, dot the paper plate brown and draw the face on the tube. Cutting the hole in the cup and fitting the groundhog on the stick are adult jobs.

The pop-up cup and the paper plate puppet are for the retelling: groundhog comes up, sees a shadow or not, goes back down. Use them at the breakfast table on February 2.

The headband goes to preschool on the day. The toilet roll groundhog sits on the window sill in its grass until spring.

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