Are you looking for penguin activities to add to your winter animals unit? Creating this Cardboard Tube Penguin Craft is an easy and fun way for your kids to develop their fine motor skills while learning all about the flightless birds!
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Cardboard Tube Penguin Craft:
Creating crafts can be a fun way for kids to develop their fine motor skills, hand and eye coordination, muscle strength, and much more. Activities like this one will also help your children work on their listening comprehension and following multi-step directions.
Why Are Fine Motor Skills Important?
From holding a pencil to turning the pages in a book, kids use their fine motor skills as they are learning to read and write.
The development of the small muscles in the hands and fingers in coordination with the eyes is important in not only children’s learning but also in their everyday life.
Getting Ready To Make The Cardboard Tube Penguin Craft:
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What’s Needed:
- Cardboard Tube
- Black Paint
- Black, White, and Orange Paper
- Small Googly Eyes
- Yarn
- Scissors
- Glue
- Cardboard Tube Penguin Template (optional)
To prepare to make this winter animal craft, click on the pencil below to download and print the penguin flippers and body templates. Then, make copies of the templates and gather the supplies for each one of your kids.
How To Make Cardboard Tube Penguin Craft:
To begin making this penguin craft, your kids will paint the cardboard tube with the black paint.
Once the cardboard roll is dry, your children will cut a slit or two that is about one and a half inches long on the end of the roll. (They need to use the scissors with adult supervision.)
Next, your kids will put one end of the yarn in the slit. They will then begin wrapping to form the penguin’s scarf.
Once they are done wrapping, your kids will put the end of the piece of yarn into the slit. They may want to put glue or a piece of tape on the end to secure it.
Next, your children will trace the body template on white paper, cut it out, and glue it onto the cardboard tube. They will then trace the flipper templates on black paper, cut them out, and glue them onto the sides of the penguin’s body.
After gluing the body and flippers onto the cardboard tube, your kids will cut a small triangle for the beak out of orange paper and glue it onto the penguin.
Finally, your children will glue two googly eyes onto the cardboard tube.
After the glue dries, your kids can play with their penguins. They can put on a puppet show, build them a home out of blocks, and much more!
This Cardboard Tube Penguin Craft is a fun activity that will help your kids develop their fine motor skills when they are learning all about winter animals!
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