4 Pet Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three pet crafts that always work

Paper plate bunnyPre-cut ears, glue, a plate bunnyPaper bag bunny puppetA lunch bag and glue, then playHeart puppyThree hearts make a puppy face

4 pet crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Paper plate bunny

The child turns a paper plate into a bunny face with paper ears, a pom pom nose, whiskers and googly eyes.

You need: 1 small white paper plate, white and pink construction paper, 2 googly eyes, 1 pink pom pom, 4 short black pipe cleaner pieces, glue

How to make it

1. You cut 2 long white ears and 2 smaller pink centers.
2. Your child glues each pink center on a white ear. Glue the ears behind the top rim, side by side.
3. Glue 2 eyes in the upper middle and the pom pom nose in the center.
4. Glue 2 black whiskers on each side of the nose.

2. Paper bag bunny puppet

The child glues ears, eyes, nose, teeth and whiskers onto a paper lunch bag to make a hand puppet.

You need: 1 brown paper lunch bag, white and pink construction paper, 2 googly eyes, 1 pink pom pom, 4 short white pipe cleaner pieces, glue

How to make it

1. Lay the folded bag flat with the bottom flap at the top as the face.
2. You cut 2 long white ears and 2 smaller pink centers. Your child glues the pink on the white, then glues the ears behind the top edge of the flap.
3. Glue 2 eyes and the pom pom nose on the flap, with 2 white whiskers on each side of the nose.
4. Glue 2 small white rectangles side by side under the flap edge as teeth.

3. Heart puppy

The child builds a dog face from an upside-down heart with folded-heart ears and a small heart nose.

You need: light brown paper, dark brown paper, black paper, 2 googly eyes, black marker, glue stick

How to make it

1. You cut 1 large light brown heart, 2 medium dark brown hearts and 1 small black heart.
2. Your child glues the 2 dark brown hearts at the top corners, rounded ends hanging down as floppy ears.
3. Glue the 2 googly eyes in the middle of the face and the small black heart below them as the nose.
4. Draw a short line down from the nose and a small curved smile.

4. Pete the Cat mask

The child colours or paints a paper plate or template blue and adds ears, yellow eyes and whiskers to wear.

You need: 1 white paper plate, blue poster paint, blue paper, yellow paper, black paper, 1 craft stick, black marker, glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints the plate blue. Let it dry.
2. You cut 2 round eye holes in the middle of the plate.
3. Cut 2 blue triangles and glue them at the top edge as ears. Cut 2 yellow rings and glue one around each eye hole.
4. Glue a small black triangle below the eyes as a nose. Draw 3 whiskers on each side with the marker.
5. Glue the craft stick behind the bottom edge as a handle.

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Pet crafts: faces, puppets and a mask to wear

Cut the parts in advance and lay them out like a kit: ears, eyes, nose, whiskers. Then the paper plate bunny and the bag puppet are glue-only for a three year old.

For the heart puppy, fold a sheet of paper and cut half a heart three times, big, medium and small. Your child opens them and builds the face.

An adult cuts the eye holes for the mask. Hold the plate up to your child's face first and mark where the eyes go with a pencil.

The puppet and the mask are for play afterward. The plate bunny and the heart puppy go on the fridge, or in an envelope to a grandparent with a pet.

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