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Cardboard Tube Lion Craft

March 6, 2013 by OneMommy

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!

cardboard tube lion craft for kids

 

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.

cardboard tube lion craft

 

This simple lion craft for kids is the “purrfect” March craft for preschoolers.

 

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Filed Under: Kids Crafts Tagged With: cardboard tube craft, spring craft

Comments

  1. Chris Carter says

    March 7, 2013 at 1:02 pm

    Another fun and creative craft!! 🙂 I’m ready for the Lamb project!! lol

    • OneMommy says

      March 7, 2013 at 9:58 pm

      Oh, I am soooo ready for that one as well!

  2. Mandy says

    March 9, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    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

      March 10, 2013 at 1:30 pm

      Thank you so much for hosting! Looking forward to coming back next week!

  3. Cathy says

    March 12, 2013 at 1:50 am

    Super cute craft!

    Happy SITSharefest!

    cathy

    • OneMommy says

      March 12, 2013 at 9:13 pm

      Thank you! Sometimes they are so cute it’s hard to throw them away.

  4. Cheryl says

    March 14, 2013 at 10:45 pm

    Adorable! I remember making lion and lamb decorations when I was in elementary school. 🙂

    • OneMommy says

      March 15, 2013 at 9:07 am

      I should link our lamb craft up to this one! 🙂 I remember doing lion and lamb crafts at school, too!

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