A cute little art and craft project for you and your little one! With Christmas holidays coming up, you will love conducting this activity for your child at home.
Age Range – 3 – 4 years, 4 – 6 years
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Primary Skills – Fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination
Materials:
- Brown wrapping paper
- Coloured paper (red, pink, cream, dark brown, black)
- Plain paper (if you don’t have coloured paper)
- Paints
- Marker
- Scissors
- Glue
- Stapler/tape (optional)
- Glitter (optional)
Instructions:
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- Let’s start by making the reindeer’s face. On brown wrapping paper, carefully trace the outline of the reindeer’s face and ears as is shown in the images (above and below). Make sure not to make it too small!
- For younger children (3 – 4 years), cut out the drawing carefully yourself. If you have an older child (4 – 6 years), you might want to let him try to cut it out on his own. But, help him with the tricky parts, such as the ears!
- Next, let’s make the features of the reindeer’s face (see image for reference). You can either cut out everything and then paste them, or cut and paste as you go.
- Take the black-coloured paper, and cut out two slim, semi-circular eyes (see images). Alternatively, draw them on with a black marker.
- Take the cream-coloured paper, and help your child draw and cut out two smaller ears, and an oval muzzle.
- Next, from the red paper, cut out a small oval to make the nose. Your child can cover this with glitter, if he likes!
- From the pink paper, draw and cut out another two small ovals to make cheeks.
- Lastly, from the brown paper, draw two Y-shaped antlers, and cut them out.
- If you are using plain paper instead, you can cut out all the features, and then paint them in their respective colours. After they dry, you can paste them.
- Now, it’s time to make the headband itself. Take the brown wrapping paper, and wrap it around your little one’s head to measure how much paper you need. (Tip: always cut out a little more length than you need!)
- Then, cut out the paper according to the length you measured, and according to the width of your child’s forehead (or a little less).
- Lay the strip flat, and position the reindeer’s face in the middle of it. Make sure the bottom of the face lines up with the bottom of the strip. Then, paste the face on the strip.
- Lastly, place the headband on your child’s head, and position it such that the reindeer’s face is right on his forehead. Then, glue, tape, or staple the ends of the strip together.
The reindeer headband is now ready to wear!
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