Preschoolers love craft time. When it comes to doing kids crafts, we especially like ones that use recycled cardboard tubes.
The rainy days of spring are perfect for crafting.
The old saying, “In like a lion, out like a lamb,” makes this cardboard tube lion craft perfect for the start of March!
Lion Craft
For each lion you will need:
- 1 toilet paper tube (You could also cut a paper towel tube to length.)
- 1 brown (orange would also be cute) paper circle 3.5 inches in diameter
- 1 yellow paper circle 2.5 inches in diameter
- 4 one-inch long, narrow rectangles (to be used as arms and legs)
- 4 “whiskers” (We used strips of white paper.)
- piece of yarn (about 3 inches long)
Glue the yellow circle to the middle of your larger brown circle. Use scissors to snip fringe around the edges of the brown circle to create your lion’s mane.
Draw a face for your lion. If desired you could use wiggly eyes.
Don’t forget to add whiskers to your lion. We used strips of white paper for whiskers. (We found yarn just kept sticking to our fingers and was frustrating.)
To put your lion together, glue the head to the top of the tube, overhanging the top a bit.
The front and back legs get glued to the bottom of the tube with the “feet” overhanging so you can bend them to rest on the table surface.
For the lion’s tail use the point of a pen to poke a small hole at the back of the tube. Tie a knot into one end of the yarn and then pushed the yarn through the hole. To keep the tail from falling out, tie another knot at the other end of the yarn.
This simple lion craft for kids is the “purrfect” March craft for preschoolers.
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Chris Carter says
Another fun and creative craft!! 🙂 I’m ready for the Lamb project!! lol
OneMommy says
Oh, I am soooo ready for that one as well!
Mandy says
Thanks for linking up to Fine Finds Friday! I’m glad you found me- and I’m glad to now have found you! I look forward to following your cute ideas!
OneMommy says
Thank you so much for hosting! Looking forward to coming back next week!
Cathy says
Super cute craft!
Happy SITSharefest!
cathy
OneMommy says
Thank you! Sometimes they are so cute it’s hard to throw them away.
Cheryl says
Adorable! I remember making lion and lamb decorations when I was in elementary school. 🙂
OneMommy says
I should link our lamb craft up to this one! 🙂 I remember doing lion and lamb crafts at school, too!