Paper Plate Penguin - Craft Activity!

I try to make our art classes as diversified as possible, we study about the Greatest Artists and the curriculum we use have great activities as well, but I want more fun out of the arts. I want Little V to learn to use different materials, experiment different techniques of making art projects, so I do a lot of research on Pinterest and I came across many great websites, one of them was at huppiemama.com. As we were still in the winter, I thought it would be a great idea to make a penguin made of paper plate. If you check her website you can find more detailed information, however I will post today how we made it and what materials we used. 

Se we started by, setting up what we needed:

- paper plates
- brushes
- black acrylic paint (because it dries faster)
- art smock
- construction paper (black, white and orange)
- paper to cover the surface area where you'll be painting.

You can see Little V is ready to start painting, but before that we had to fold flippers.

Below, you can have an idea of how we folded the flippers, now Little V could start painting her penguin. I highly recommend using paper plate that is not coated, we had only coated paper plate because it's my choice for the house, but it was hard to fold and keep it folded, we had to use glue to keep the flippers down. 

While the painting was drying, we had time to cut the eyes, beak and feet using the construction papers. Once all parts needed were cut, the flippers were dried, we started to assemble our cute penguin!

Cute, right!?!?

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Vanessa Z. Pawlicki