Recycled Cotton Easter Lamb Basket Craft

Make a cute lamb Easter basket from a recycled container with this easy craft idea. Follow the link for more details.

Thrifty Fun

Handprint Easter Lamb Preschool Craft

This handprint Easter lamb idea is an easy craft to do. Just ct out the kids hands on black paper and glue on the cotton balls. Follow the link below for more details.


Baby Savers

Easy Easter Lamb Clothespin Craft

Add cotton and clothespins to this lamb cutout to make a cute lamb for Easter. Simple and fun to make, this is a perfect preschool or kindergarten activity. Click on the link below for the tutorial and free template on this and loads of other great Easter craft ideas.

Squidoo

Father's Day Recycled Sheep Craft

Recycle restaurant ties or curly strips of paper to make this, "I Love Ewe" sheep craft for Father's Day. Go to the great site below for the full details.

Art Projects for Kids

Easter Lamb Yarn Craft

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Valentine's Day/Easter Heart Lamb Preschool Craft

Here's a really cute Valentine's Day lamb craft made from hearts. Do something different for Valentine's Day with this animal craft, perfect for preschool. Also perfect for an Easter craft. Follow the link to this great site Cool Kids Craft Ideas for this and many other Valentine's Day craft ideas.

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Sheep Cotton Ball Craft

Here's an easy sheep cotton ball craft idea. This is good for a lesson on farm animals or spring.

Materials:

• sheep template
• scissors
• black and green construction paper
• cotton balls
• glue

Directions:

1. Print a sheep template on black paper or trace and cut out.
2. Glue the black sheep on a green background.
3. Glue cotton balls over your sheep.
4. If desired add google eyes or stickers.

Sheep Toilet Roll Craft

Here's an adorable sheep craft idea made from a toilet paper roll.  It's great for a nativity scene or spring craft.

Materials:

•  toilet paper roll
• woolly fabric or cotton balls
• sheep face template from a coloring page
• long black pipe cleaner
• masking tape
• glue

Directions:

1. Find a good sheep from a coloring page and cut out the head.
2. Cut a long black pipe cleaner in half. Bend the ends down to look like legs and the tips to look like feet. Tape the middle part of 1 pipe cleaner to each side of the toilet roll. 1 pipe cleaner makes the legs on 1 side.
3. Glue woolly fabric or cotton balls all over the toilet roll.
4. Glue on the head(color black if desired)

 

source: Cherrytomato (Flickr)

Easter Lamb/Sheep Paper Plate Craft

This fat sheep craft reminds me of Shirley from "Shaun the Sheep". It's a nice Easter craft using a paper plate and cotton balls.

Materials:

• 1 paper plate
• cotton balls
• 1 oval with an ear sticking up for the head from black construction paper or felt
• 2 rectangle legs from black construction paper or felt
• 1 small ribbon
• 1 google eye
• glue

Directions:

1. Put glue all over the paper plate and put cover with cotton balls.
2. Glue the head and leg pieces to the back.
3. Glue on a ribbon and google eye.

Kaboose

Easter Spring Lamb Clothespin Craft

Here's a cute Easter lamb craft using Q-tips and clothespins. It's great for a card holder at your next Easter or sprng party. This takes some manual dexterity and is better for older kids.

Materials:

• 1 oval from card stock, about 4 inches long for the body
• 1 small oval from card stock, about 1.5 inches long for the head
• lots of Q-tips(cotton swabs)
• 2 clothespins
• tiny ribbon
• glue
• scissors
• pen or pencil

Directions:

1. Beforehand, cut th tips off Q-tips about 2 inches long.
2. Put glue all over the boy piece and starting from the back, arange the Q-tips in a pattern as shown. Add more glue on the ends of each  layer as you go along. Leave a space at the end for the head.
3. Draw a face on the small oval.
4. Glue Q-tips and ribbon on the head as shown.
5. Glue the head on the body. Allow everything to dry.
6. Glue 2 clothespins on the back for legs.

Easter Hand Print Lamb Craft

Here's a simple cotton ball Easter lamb using a hand print for a body.

Crafts by Amanda
 

Lamb Lion Paper Plate Flip Mask Craft

This is a simple and fun craft that takes its inspiration from the expression "March goes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb." Use a paper plate to make this reversable double sided mask. These pictures came from a great website, The Art of Family

Materials:

• paper plate
• scissors
• cotton balls or wadded tssue
• yellow tissue or crepe paper
• black and brown constructon paper
• glue

Directions:

1. Fold a paper plate gently in half and cut a slit in the middle and then cut the center out.
2. Cut yellow crepe paperi nto short strips and glue all the way around the back of the paper plate rim to make the lion's mane.
3. Cut lion shaped ears from brown paper and glue on to the lion's face.
4. On the front side, glue cotton balls or tissue paper all around the rim.
5. Cut oval shaped lamb ears from black construction paper and glue on the lamb's face.

Easy Spring Sheep Paper Craft

Here's a fun sheep craft for spring.

Materials:

• construction paper sheep cut out
• cotton balls
• glue

Directions:

1. Prepare a simple sheep template and copy on construction paper. (This template came from the Crafts for all Seasons book, but any coloring page sheep is good, too.)
2. Precut sheep or have students cut depending on their abilities.
3. Glue on cotton balls for wool.
4. Display your spring sheep.

Easy Spring Lamb, Sheep Card Craft For Kids

Here’s a fun and easy sheep craft. It’s good for a Spring theme.

Materials: For each child, prepare,

• Half a piece of black construction paper, folded in half like a card
• Lamb cutout on white construction paper
• Grass cutout on green construction paper (Templates from “Arts and Crafts for All Seasons”)
• White tissue paper or cotton balls/stuffing
• Glue
• Scissors

Instructions:

1. Trace or photocopy lamb and grass templates for students
2. Have students cut out lamb and grass templates.
3. Glue onto front of folded black construction paper.
4. Glue on cotton balls for wool.
5. Allow to dry and display your spring lamb cards cards.

Variation

The original instructions called for gluing on tiny balls of white tissue paper. For my craft, I substituted cotton instead. Either would look nice.

This and hundreds of other simple and easy craft ideas are from the "Arts and Craft For All Seasons" series books for Preschool/Kindergarten and 1^st through 3^rd grade. The crafts are fun, simple, and easily adaptable. These books are a great resource and are a must have for any preschool-K or early elementary program.