DLTK's Animal Crafts for Kids
Whale Paper Craft
Kaitlyn made this whale paper craft in her ocean themed summer camp
this year. I thought it turned our so well that I wanted to share it
with our viewers. Materials:
- paper (legal sized...8.5"x11"...blue or gray are most
appropriate)
(a slightly heavier paper than 20lb helps too)
- scissors
- for decorating:
- wiggly eyes
- markers or pencil crayons
- bingo dauber
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Directions:
- Starting with a legal sized piece of paper, cut the bottom few
inches off to make the paper square.
- The first fold is from one corner to another
- Use the scissors to cut a one inch slit from one corner along the
fold. This is ultimately be used for the whale's tail.
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- The second step is to fold the other two corners over to the center
of the paper. The edge of the paper should line up with the
first fold.
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- The third step is folding the top corner down to meet the edge of
the paper from the second fold. Sort of like a dog ear.
- the fourth fold is repeating the first fold and folding the entire
project in half again.
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- On the pointed end (where you made the slit in step one) fold the
two halves to the outside to create the tail for step 5.
- The sixth and final fold is sort of on an angle and works to raise
the tail up above the back of your whale.
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- Take some time to decorate your whale. You can use googly eyes
or draw the eyes on your whale, color it, make polka dots with a
dauber or whatever you see fit!
Have fun!!
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