what are some fun preschool craft ideas dealing with animals?

Answer 1

Footprint chicks: children take off shoes and socks, put one foot in yellow paint and make yellow foot print on art paper. The heel is the chick's 'head'. Use orange paint to add beak and chicken feet, black thumbprint for eye! So cute! Teachers can make big white or black footprint for the 'mother hen'
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Provide each child with a white construction paper cow cut-out. Provide black bingo-dabbers for the children to make spots on their cows. Have the children glue their cows onto blue construction paper. The next day, when the cows are dry, take the children, their pictures, and glue outside to a grassy area. Talk to the children about how cows like to eat grass. Have the children pick grass and glue it onto their pictures.

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Cut out the vague shape of a giraffe on yellow construction paper and let the children put spots on it with a bingo marker (stamper). Works for a leopard also. For younger children let them put spots on the paper before you cut out the shape.
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The children can make a snake out of a paper plate: 1st draw a line that goes around and around from the edge to the middle and stops. 2nd: If your children are ready, have them cut on the line (this may be tricky!! lots of curves). 3rd: Sponge paint with brown and green.
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Precut zebra shapes on white construction paper and then, using black paint, have the children marble paint the zebra. They love to see this "horse" turn into a zebra!

Hint: I find that larger marbles or even ping pong balls, work best.

Answer 2

Buy animal crackers or cookies and have the kids draw a scene where they glue the appropriate animal into the picture and have each of them tell the class what they drew and which animals they used.....

You could also use a coloring book and copy some of the scenes that would be appropriate and then pass them out and have the kids color and paste the animals....

You could also cut out groups of animals from magazines and have them make a collage using various themes like: "what kind of animals live in the water?" What kind of animals do people have as pets? "What kind of animals would you find at the zoo?"

Answer 3

well, i suggest that you give them all the things used in making crafts, papers, egg cartons, crayons, glue, tissue paper, paint, beads, sequins, paper rolls, newspaper, brushes, glitters, beady eyes, pipe cleaners and whatever....then instruct them to be creative and do whatever they want with those things. But make sure to tell them that they should make things about animals. hope i helped! =)

Answer 4

drawing, acting out their favorite animal. that's all can think of right now. sorry.

Answer 5

drawing and spelling