This is a simple three dimensional beaver craft that is fun for kids to make and play with.

Materials:

• toilet paper roll or cardboard tube,
• printer,
• something to color with,
• scissors,
• glue, and
• paper

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template of choice.
• Color (if using the black and white version of the craft) and cut out the template pieces.
• Glue the large rectangle around the toilet paper roll.
• Glue the small dot (nose) and two bigger dots (cheeks) on to make a face.  Glue teeth underneath.
• Then glue on the eyes, ears, arms, feet and tail.
• Glue on bow or bowtie as preferred.
• Glue egg onto one of the hands.

Alternative Decorating Ideas:

• Use sparkles, sparkle glue, or felt to decorate the small egg and/or the center of the ears  (pink or red sparkles look great in place of colouring the ears.
• Replace the eyes with purchased wiggly eyes.
• Replace the small dot with small pink or red pom pom.
• Replace the two bigger dots with medium white pom poms.
• Replace the tail with a medium white pom pom or a cotton ball.

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP in most browsers).

Template   (color)   or   (B&W)

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