Crafts
Easy AND Fun to Make At Home or School
Here's an easy and functional craft for kids from Crayola that's perfect to create at school while studying whales and ocean life as well as for synagogue day schools and church religious centers learning about the biblical story of Jonah and the Whale. This fun Whale Tissue Box Cover art project involves just a few basic art supplies like crayons, markers, glue and tape. plus optional art embellishment supplies like glitter, sequins, stickers, acrylic jewels, etc.
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| Image from Crayola |
This would make a really cute and unique teacher gift, fun DIY home decor accessory for your classroom at school as well as your bathroom or child's bedroom, a thoughtful gift for Grandma or Grandpa on your next visit, or even a surprise for Daddy or Mommy to accessorize his/her desk at the office.
Perfect for a classroom art project or to make this at home with your child for some quality time together. Or, if he or she has the required skills to use scissors safely, encourage them to create their own Whale of a Great Tissue Box Cover Art Project.
Perfect for a classroom art project or to make this at home with your child for some quality time together. Or, if he or she has the required skills to use scissors safely, encourage them to create their own Whale of a Great Tissue Box Cover Art Project.
How to Make this Whale Craft
- Start with a full rectangular standard size tissue box
- Allow kids to color construction paper using magic markers or crayons
- Next, help them measure and cut the colored paper into strips long and high enough to completely cover each of the four sides of the box using white craft (skip covering the top and bottom of the tissue box)
- Once the glue has dried keep decorating. Use a marker or crayon to draw the whale's smiling mouth and eye. If desired give kids an assortment of bling items to glue on to the sides of the box such as glitter, sequins, acrylic jewels, stickers, tiny cutouts, etc.
- Using a whale tail cardboard template created by the teacher (see craft photo to help make this simple shape) each child will then trace and cut out two whale's tails which they'll then glue back to back. If they want to decorate the tail with glue on items, it's easiest to do it now before the last step
- Then, using tape or more white glue, each child can attach the whale's tail behind the right side of the box so it's visible from the front, positioned as pictured
Kids will have such fun getting creative to make their whale tissue box cover a one of a kind original masterpiece. The whale idea is just the beginning. Give little ones the freedom to turn a mundane tissue box into any other kind of real or mythical animal or fish -- limited only by the childrens' imaginations.
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