Noah’s Ark Animal Assembly

To Make The Animals You’ll Need:

• colored card stock
• round colored stickers
• adhesive back metallic paper
• water color and/or gouche paint
• rubber eraser to use as printing tool
• hole punch

Part 1: Making Animal Patterned Paper

Making your own patterned paper is a project unto itself, that all ages from three and up canenjoy. The idea is to make ‘animal skin” whether real or imagined. Create a kaleidascope of patterns, and ay extra paper can always be used for greeting cards, collage projects or bunting banner flags.

Young children can easily make polka-dot paper with round stickers, and you can help them by punching holes in stickers before peeling them off the sheet, or cutting sticker in half. Older children can try their hand at painting their interpretations of real animal skin patterns. Get out some books with photos of animals for inspiration.

Part 2: Cutting pairs or chains of animals from patterned paper

1. Print out animal silhouettes below, transfer image to paper by putting a piece of carbon paper between your print out and the back of your patterned paper, and using a ball point pen, trace around the edge of each animal. Or alternatively, glue or double stick tape animal to heavy weight paper or cereal box cardboard, cut out animal silhouette, and use as a template for tracing (I recommend this option.)
2. Before you transfer your animal silhouette to your patterned paper, fold paper at least once, and transfer image such that one side lies exactly on the fold to create joined animals.
3. Animal cut-outs like these also make great party invitations or greeting cards to make some extra ones for future use.