In the minds of young children, learning about a specific animal’s preferred characteristics is like unearthing an enormous treasure trove. They’ll pretend to be that animal if they can, whether they’re dressing up or playing actively with their friends. The opportunity to educate your children about animal-related DIY projects may be a good use of that time. In our youth, we were enchanted with tigers. Even kids who aren’t crazy about tigers will enjoy the chance to make their tiger art and craft project.
Check out the post below for some creative tiger craft preschool ideas.
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Easy & Amazing Tiger Craft Ideas for Children
Get creative with your kids and let them appreciate their favorite animal at the same time by checking out these tiger craft activities! Keep reading to learn construction paper tiger crafts.
1. Foam Cup Tiger
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What You Will Need
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A tiny foam cups
Tangerine acrylic paints
A paintbrush
Black and orange cardstock paper
Googly eyeballs
Black markers
Scissors
Adhesives
How to Make
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It’s time to brighten up the foam cup with some orange paint. Make sure it’s scorched before storing it.
You may cut out the nose and tiger stripes from black cardstock paper while the paint dries. You may make tiger ears out of your orange cardboard by cutting off pieces of it.
Your nose should be glued to the foam cup’s middle part. Attach your googly eyes last. Give your tiger a mouth and tongue.
You may attach the foam cup to your ears by gluing the fold at the bottom of your earlobes (which is the bottom of the cup).
The face of the foam cup tiger should be covered with black stripes, and we applied them to his ears, sides, and top.
2. Tiger Bookmark
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What You Will Need
Paper with an orange hue (A4 folded in half and cut down to approx 21 x 21cm)
Paper scraps in various colors (or work with what you have and improvise)
Pen/pencil in the Color of Black
Adhesive
How to Make
Create a traditional origami bookmark corner with an orange piece of paper.
After the paint has dried, use your pens to add pupils and black outlines to the painting. It has nose, mouth, and ear traits.
Add tiger stripes with black paint or black paper!
Carefully cut the ear off the paper plate by cutting through the folded side. Rep on the other side.
Tape the incisions you made to “get to the ear” on both sides. Fold the dish in half again to raise the ears!
And a little attached to the inside of your folded paper plate to retain it and allow it to sway (without flying open). Your kids’ rocking paper plate tigers are done!
Glue, googly eyes, and other embellishments (optional)
Cutters
How to Make
Paint your TP roll a color of your choosing.
Allow for complete drying.
Once the TP Roll Cat Box has dried thoroughly, mold the top to your liking.
Fill your TP Roll halfway with your thumb and index finger.
As soon as you’ve finished pressing one side of the paper, flip it over on itself.
Draw tiger-like features on the paper using a black pen.
The tail of the tiger must be attached to the back!
One of the following procedures may be used to seal the bottom of the TP Roll Cat:
Use tissue paper to close the bag (which works well!) or secure it with tape. You may cut four tiny slits on the bottom and then fold them over if you like.
With your TP Roll Tiger and Gift Box, you’re all set.
7. Tiger Pop-Up Cards
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What You Will Need
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A5 folded in half as cardstock
Orange-colored paper or use plain paper and color.
Use red and pink for New Year Card or green and yellow for birthday or summer cards as examples of decorative paper scraps.
Fold the paper in thirds to form a concertina. Three tigers need a total of six-folds.
Cut it off if you have a little piece left behind.
Draw a half tiger on the folded paper. Keep in mind where the tiger’s ‘central line’ and ‘outside’ are located. You may make your tiger look like ours by adding a heart shape to it.
Fold it once more and then cut out the heart, careful not to cut through the edges.
If you pinch them, hearts may be folded in an opposite dir of the tiger body.
Make your tiger’s characteristics stand out by using a black pen.
Verify the placement of your tigers and apply adhesive as necessary. The location of your tigers affects the position of your nails. The chain should be flat when the card is opened.
Second, apply glue to the exposed portion of the piece
Glue the second part of your tigers back together. Close the card with a glue stick. A tiger’s face may be made from any scraps.
Make sure you overlap the sides of the card by gluing it to its front.
Trim the card’s corners once it has been opened. The tiger on the front of the card is perfect!
8. Tiger Paper Hat
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What You Will Need
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For painting, use white paper/card or orange paper/card
pencils, markers, and pastels.
Cutters
Just a little adhesive, tapes or paper clips will suffice.
How to Make
Whether you want your tiger hat hand-colored or fully colored and printed on orange paper, it’s up to you.
Cut the shapes carefully. The tiger pattern is simple enough that most kids can cut it out without help, and cutting practice is a must!
Join all of the paper strips together to form one long paper strip.
To make a circle, measure around your child’s head and connect one end of the strip to the other. Unfit sections may be trimmed and glued in place. But it should be just ideal for the little ones!
Our super-simple tiger craft for kindergarten is perfect for ushering in the Year of the Tiger in 2022. We’ve put up a set of easy-to-do extracurricular activities just for you to celebrate the Lunar New Year with your children while also surprising them!
