Free Craft Ideas, Tutorials and Templates

 

CI Border

Home

Patterns

Tutorials

Spring Crafts

Summer Crafts

Fall Crafts

Christmas & Winter Crafts

New Crafts

 

Timmy the Turtle

This turtle is an easy way to introduce kids to decopage and is a recycling craft at the same time. How fun it is to just cover something with paper to create something new.

 

 

Recycling Craft for Kids - Turtle

For this project you will need:

- flat dairy product container (empty and clean)
- 2 shades of green paper (the paper should be thin such as origami paper)
- green cardboard (for the turtle’s body)
- for the eyes we used two 6 mm black wooden beads but those can be subsituted with wiggle eyes or small black paper
  circles
- craft glue (to glue turtle shell on the body and the eyes to the head)
- homemade decopage glue (a mixture of 3 parts school glue and 1 part water)
- empty cereal box
- flat paint brush
- scissors

Recommended Ages: 7 and up

Craft Pattern:

Turtle Body 100

Turtle Template

 

 

 

 

Instructions:

Print out the turtle template to a size that will fit the circumferance of the dairy container. Glue the pattern page then to the back of a cereal box and cut out. Now you have a permanent and stable template that you can use to trace around. This is practical when you have a group of kids and need to make more turtles.

1. Tear lots of different sized pieces of green paper and place in a pile.
2. Mix the school glue with water in a small jar or bowl.
3. Take the paint brush and brush some glue onto the outside of the dairy container.
4. Press the first torn piece of paper onto the glue and brush more glue onto the paper to completely saturate it.
5. Now take the second piece of paper and overlap the first piece some and brush glue it on in the same manner as the first piece.
6. Continue adding glue and paper to the container until it is completely covered. Set aside to dry.
7. Trace the turtle template onto the back side of green cardboard and cut the shape out.
8. Once the container is dry, it can be glued to the body.
9. Glue on two eyes.

Recycling Craft for Kids - Turtle 2
The turtle is trying to get away.

 

 

 

 

A Selection of Summer Crafts for Kids

Paper Pear Suncatcher

Textured Memory Game for Kids to Craft and Then Play

Corrugated Cardboard Birdhouse Decoration

Recycling Craft for Kids - Timmy the Turtle

Frog Flower Pot Sitter

Rainbow Flowers Window Decoration

Kaleidoscope Window Decoration

Wooden Beads and Noodle Necklace

Styrofoam Bumble Bee

Paper Clip Necklace for Kids

Recycling Craft for Kids - Turtle

 

 

More Craft Themes:

Summer Crafts for Kids

Summer Paper Crafts

Summer General Crafts

Summer Wood Crafts

Summer Textile Crafts

Birthday and Greeting Cards

Patriotic Crafts

Maritime Crafts

Summer Templates, Patterns and Coloring Book Pages

 

 

 

 

Copyright: Please read this Copyright Information about using the images of this website.

 

© Craftideas.info

Contact     Links     Privacy Policy and Cookies