Cardboard Crafts for Kids: Kittens in Sweaters

The cutest cardboard crafts for kids projects can exist found at Krokotak.com. They seem to have a knack for collecting really original ideas, which is not easy these days.

A cardboard craft for kids, wrapping yarn to make a sweater for a kitten.

I love how this projection lets artists of all ages make super cute kittens in sweaters. I tried this in my art camp which has kinder through 4th graders, and they all loved customizing their niggling cardboard kitties. In the end, some constitute the wire whiskers a little difficult to poke and attach. Cartoon them with a black marker was fine too.

Materials for Paper-thin Kittens

  • Corrugated paper-thin, 3.5″ 10 7″ rectangles, cutting to kitten shapes shown
  • Scissors
  • Black Sharpie markers
  • White Sharpie paint marking
  • Crayons
  • Yarn
  • Wire or pipe cleaners

Directions to Make Paper-thin Kittens

PREP: Pre-cut kitten shapes shown as it takes an adult scissors to cut through the corrugated cardboard.

  1. Drawing the face up with blackness marker. White markers are used to fill in the eyes.
  2. Rub the entire cat with a peeled crayon for added color.
  3. Cut a notch is cut on the cervix with a scissors. Ane cease of about a 7 thousand piece of yarn is tucked and wrapped around. Take intendance to get under the center bent tab when information technology is reached.
  4. Punch holes in the cheeks with a pencil and stick in wires or pipage cleaners for whiskers.

Cardboard Craft Houses

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It takes some time to precut the pieces for little ones, merely they take a ball "building" their own little house later.

Materials

  • Corrugated cardboard, 12″ squares (I constitute mine at a local Box Urban center)
  • Paper cutter
  • Craft gum
  • Sharpie markers

Directions

  1. I found make clean corrugated cardboard boxes and precut the 6 pieces for each student as shown higher up. A large old chopping-fashion paper cutter is the best way to go.
  2. Students used masking tape to tape the 4 sides together.
  3. The two roof pieces were taped together. Tacky glue was practical to the side tops, and the roof was placed on it. The tacky glue really works then peachy as information technology goes on thick and keeps pieces from sliding around too much.
  4. Students used scraps of paper-thin to make window and door details, so added decorations with Sharpies.

Paper-thin Arts and crafts Tree Houses

When my students made these tree houses, they got and then involved in decorating them they worked right through the last minute of grade.

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Materials

  • Cardboard
  • Paper cutter (heavy duty blazon)
  • Corrugated cardboard
  • Arts and crafts sticks (narrow and long type)
  • Match sticks
  • Craft glue
  • Masking record

NOTE: There was a bit of prep work for this, merely on the bright side my merely costs were masking tape, craft glue, and popsicle sticks as I found old boxes for the cardboard. I used an sometime-fashioned newspaper cutter to precut all the cardboard pieces and place all of them bags to brand picayune "kits".

1. Students used masking tape to tape the sides of the house together. They taped the roof across the summit seam and glued it on top of the house. The tree roll was stapled as a curlicue, and glued to the tree base. Lastly the house base was glued to the top of the tree.
2. Michaels sells a variety of wood arts and crafts sticks these days, which makes for several ladder choices. I used some new narrow ones for the sides and what are chosen "friction match sticks" for the steps. I recommend using Alene's Tacky Craft Mucilage for everything as information technology is thick and sets up in about 10 minutes.

 I've found that if I just pre cut some firm shapes for a corrugated paper-thin craft class, students every bit immature as kinder tin can easily "build" something and learn how to construct and decorate a house.

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