This winter animal craft is soft, simple, and full of charm. Kids can make cute animals like a snowman, polar bear, or bunny using cotton pads and colorful decorations. It’s a great way to explore textures and shapes while having fun with winter themes. Perfect for classrooms, holiday cards, or cozy afternoons at home.
🧰 What You Need
- Cotton pads
- Blue paper or cardstock
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Colored markers or crayons
- Cotton balls
- Pom-poms, googly eyes, or stickers (optional)
✂️ How to Make
- Choose your idea — You can use templates to guide where cotton pads go, or make animals without templates by coloring, pasting cottons, and tearing papers to design your own background.
- Build the animal — Paste cotton pads in the right places to form a snowman, bear, or bunny.
- Decorate — Add eyes, nose, mouth, and other details with markers, pom-poms, or googly eyes.
- Make the background — Use blue paper or paint a sheet blue. Add snowy dots with white paint or crayons.
- Add snow — Glue cotton balls at the bottom to make fluffy snow.
- Glue everything down — Stick your animal onto the background and let it dry.
- Encourage creativity — Don’t rely only on templates—let kids explore and design freely. This helps build creative thinking and makes each craft unique.
- Display your craft — Hang it up or turn it into a winter greeting card.
Templates:
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