How To Make Cardboard Farm Animals

Prior to the activity cut pieces of cardboard into different shapes such as medium size rectangles small squares skinny long rectangles and small triangles.

How to make cardboard farm animals. The farm series has been posted. Glue the pink button to the cardboard tube for the nose. Cover four cardboard toilet paper rolls with the appropriate color construction paper. Turn the box upside down and remove all side flaps placing all spare cardboard to the side.

Decide first what cardboard animal you want to make. Think colors of the animals you saw. Paint the box with red acrylic paint and allow to dry. Cut small pieces of construction paper and felt if you have it.

All of the cardboard tube farm animals are now officially up. I used shades of brown gray white black and pink. Cut out a large. I think my favorites have to be the chicken and the pig do you have a favorite.

Draw a square barn door on the front side of your barn. Choose a cardboard box that is the right size for your barn. Img insert step 2 pig from both regular pink chenille stems first cut off 1 1 2 from each. You can build upon this by adding even more playful recycled farm buildings and people.

They re easy to make using the templates below and fun to paint and play with. Sort them by shape and place on a tray. Here we transformed a plain box into a playful barn complete with painted cardboard trees leaves toadstools and farm animals. How to set up the cardboard farm animals and barn art activity.

Paint the cardboard tube inside and out with pink paint and set aside to dry. A cardboard box can turn into an imaginative pretend play scene for your child. Sturdy corrugated cardboard it is one of my favorite materials. I hope you enjoyed seeing them as much as i enjoyed making them.