Crafts For Toddlers - Paper Plate Baby Farm Animals

I am excited to welcome Nicola from Multicraftingmummy to the blog today. She will be sharing some fun crafts for toddlers. These Paper Plate Baby Farm Animals are easy for kids to make and just so cute! Read on to find out how to make them and learn more about Nicola.

Thanks so much to Vicky for having me over to do a guest post on one of my favourite blogs. My name is Nicola Simpson and I would like to share with you an activity that I did with my 2 year old daughter recently to celebrate the arrival of spring, paper plate baby farm animals.

How to make Paper Plate Baby Lambs:

You will need:

1 x paper plate

1 x black paper circle

4 x black paper rectangles

Cotton wool balls

2 x googly eyes

Glue cotton balls all over the paper plate using glue. Top toddler tip – Pour glue onto a paper plate for easy dipping and sticking of the cotton wool balls.

Put glue onto the back of the paper circle and stick this into the centre of the cotton ball covered paper plate. Glue the top of the paper rectangles and stick onto the back of the plate.

Finish off by adding on 2 googly eyes.

Top tips – to adapt this activity for older children to enjoy as well, have them cut out the black circle and rectangles.

How to make Paper Plate Baby Chicks:

You will need:

1 x Paper plate

1 x yellow circle of paper

3 x orange triangles of paper

Yellow paint

2 x googly eyes

Paint all over the paper plate with the yellow paint. Once the paint is dry, glue the yellow paper circle into the centre of the plate. Add on one of the triangles to the yellow paper circle for the beak.

Glue the top of the remaining two orange triangles and glue these onto the back of the bottom of the paper plate. Finish off by adding the googly eyes.

Top tip – if you have them in your store cupboard you could add on some feathers as well.

How to make Paper Plate Baby Cows

You will need:

1 x paper plate

1 x black paper circle

1 x small pink paper circle

2 x small pink paper triangles

4 x black rectangles of black paper

2 x googly eyes

Cotton Balls

Pegs (clothespins)

Black Paint

Clip a peg (clothespin) onto a cotton ball and dip it into black paint and print this over the paper plate.

Once the paint is dry, glue the black paper circle into the centre of the plate and then glue on the small pink small pink circle and small triangles.

Add on the googly eyes. Glue the top of the black rectangles and glue these onto the back of the plate.

Top tip – you could also use pom-poms in place of the cotton balls.

How to make Paper Plate Baby Pigs

You will need:

1 x paper plate

1 x pink circle of a paper

2 x small dark pink triangles of paper

1 x small dark pink circle of paper

4 x pink rectangles of paper

Pink paint

2 x googly eyes

Finger paint over the paper plate with pink paint. Once dry glue on the pink circle of paper into the centre of the plate. Add on the two small triangles towards the top of the circle and the small dark pink circle into the centre.

Finish off the face by adding on the googly eyes. Glue the tops of the four pink rectangles and attach these to the back of the plate.

Top tip – have wipes on standby as finger painting can get messy!

I hope you have enjoyed reading about our activity. I would love to see you over at my blog http://www.multicraftingmummy.com where you will find lots more fun arts, crafts and messy play projects to do with your toddlers at home. As well as toddler activities, my blog is also home to many ideas for collaborative projects for 2-7 year olds to do all together.

If you like these adorable crafts for toddlers you might also like:

Bubble wrap Tortoise

Dino Sponge Painting

Pretend Baking for Toddlers

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