Popsicle Stick Penguin Craft (Free Printable)

Youngsters will love making this enjoyable printable penguin craft with popsicle sticks, paint, and cotton balls! Begin with our printable penguin template then get artistic together with your cute penguins!

For those who couldn’t inform already from our vampire craft, popsicle stick witch, and Frankenstein craft, we like utilizing popsicle sticks round right here. They’re cheap, they’re versatile, and they are often changed into about 1,000,000 various things.

Because it’s winter, immediately it’s all about making a cute little penguin with a fluffy tummy for sliding all around the ice!

My boys liked making this craft, they usually’re not the artful sort – they similar to penguins. I imply, who doesn’t?

This craft is a enjoyable technique to follow positive motor abilities like reducing, gluing, and portray! Little youngsters and larger youngsters will take pleasure in making their very personal penguin – you simply may have to assist out a bit extra with the little ones!

You may even make it a full penguin theme day with a bit of Comfortable Toes film time, making this cute craft, and making a few of these penguin snacks!

Why You’ll Love This Craft

• Good for youths of all ages – with just a bit little bit of assist, youngsters of all ages could make this craft! Older youngsters can do the gluing themselves and youthful youngsters can simply do the portray and placing their penguins collectively! It’s a enjoyable exercise for the winter months, irrespective of their age!
• Free template – we’ve supplied you with a free template to chop out the toes, orange beak, and wings of the penguin. The penguin craft template can assist ensure these really prove like penguins!
• Nice winter craft – we’re in that bizarre area when Christmas is over however we’re not but to Valentine’s Day so this simple craft is the right void for the winter months within the center!

Craft Provides

Provide Notes

• Glue gun – you’ll wish to use a glue gun to attach the craft sticks collectively. You possibly can both do that as a part of the craft with older youngsters that may use a glue gun or simply glue all of them collectively beforehand and let youngsters simply paint.
• Craft sticks – I used skinny craft sticks (aka popsicle sticks) for these penguins, they usually have been excellent for this cute winter craft. You may use thicker thicks if you’d like, however you’ll wish to use much less of them.
• White glue – good ole Elmer’s glue works nice. Let youngsters use this so as to add on the entire items of the penguin.
• Paint – in the event you’re making these with youngsters, I like to recommend black washable paint like Crayola, at all times washable. Nobody needs to have to clarify why youngsters got here house with stained garments after craft day!
• Cotton – you’ll be able to both use cotton balls (simpler and cheaper) or if you wish to simply have to attach one part on, you might additionally purchase one thing like this cotton stuffing for crafts and provides youngsters a small part.
• Googly Eyes – I like to recommend getting the bigger ones like these so that they don’t get misplaced on the penguin.
• Printable penguin template – you’ll be able to obtain the template for the beak, toes, and wings right here.
• Foam sheet – I simply grabbed an inexpensive piece of froth from a craft retailer in an orange shade that appeared like a beak. You solely want a bit of little bit of this per penguin so be happy to maintain it round for different easy crafts!
• Black building paper – building paper or black card inventory work nicely, you simply need one thing that’s a bit of sturdier than regular copy paper.

How one can make This Penguin Craft

This simple penguin craft takes simply a few steps to place collectively!

1 – Create the Craft Stick Base

Begin by lining up eight craft sticks so they’re like stairs up and down with two sticks lined up evenly within the middle. So that you’ll have 1, 2, 3, 4/5 on the identical top, and 6, 7, 8 are again down.

After you have these lined up on the heights you need, glue them collectively then break one craft stick in half and glue it throughout the again of the popsicle sticks in order that they’ve extra help.

2 – Paint the Craft Sticks

Subsequent, you’re going to color the popsicle sticks black. You possibly can both simply paint the entrance or paint back and front.

Whereas they’re drying, you’ll be able to transfer onto the following step to prep your entire supplies for placing the little penguins collectively.

3 – Lower Out Your Penguin

Print out the free printable penguin template then minimize out the person items.

Use the items to chop out black wings and orange foam toes and beak.

Pull of a chunk of the cotton in the event you’re utilizing a bigger piece of cotton or get out sufficient cotton balls to cowl the penguin’s stomach.

4 – Put Your Penguin Collectively

As soon as the black paint is dry, it’s time to place your penguin collectively. Begin by gluing on the white circle cotton stomach within the middle. I like to begin about 2/3 up and go down from there, proper within the middle of the physique.

Then add on the orange beak and toes that you just minimize out utilizing the penguin template items.

End off this portion of the penguin by including the googly eyes proper above the beak both with glue or the self-adhesive sticky stuff on the again (in the event you comply with my professional suggestions on the backside of this put up).

Lastly, glue on the black wings to complete your black physique (penguins need to have wings in any case!).

All of those steps needs to be simple sufficient for little fingers to do, and it’s an ideal technique to give them a bit of follow with glue with out destroying the craft!

And that’s it – you’re achieved, your cute penguin craft is full! This enjoyable exercise is ideal to do alongside different penguin actions (you might do an entire penguin unit!) and even something to do with arctic animals!

Knowledgeable Suggestions

Make this craft easier for youthful youngsters by gluing collectively the popsicle sticks earlier than you get began. That piece could be a little difficult for youthful youngsters and also you don’t need them to be achieved with this diy penguin craft earlier than the enjoyable even will get began!

Let youngsters get artistic in the event that they don’t wish to use the free printable template! Allow them to minimize out no matter form wings, beak, and toes they need. It is a nice technique to let youngsters present their creativity with out getting too loopy.

Get self-adhesive googly eyes to make that piece easier! Googly eyes with white glue additionally generally have a tendency to slide round a bit, so I at all times advocate those which might be simply able to be caught proper on!

Extra Simple Craft Concepts

For those who like this simple winter craft, these are a few of different enjoyable craft concepts that you just would possibly love!

• Turkey craft – tons of enjoyable turkey themed crafts for little fingers to make all fall lengthy!
• Ghost craft – this enjoyable ghost craft makes use of a free printable template and cotton balls so simply hold the leftovers from this penguin!
• Popsicle stick crafts – extra enjoyable crafts to make with these leftover craft sticks!
• Christmas handprint crafts – the cutest vacation crafts to make with simply hand and footprints!
• DIY Christmas ornaments – these enjoyable ornaments are all easy crafts that finish with one thing to hold in your tree!