I always smile happily whenever I receive notes from places other than Canada...  It tickles me to read the little differences in terminology.  I'm embarrassed to admit that when Marie first wrote to me, I scoured the "birds" section trying to figure out what she meant... she later sent along a picture and it all clicked *grin*.

Marie wrote:  You know the ladybird invitation card you have well we made a "shaped" ladybird ie use the basic ladybird stencil and cut in a little at the four corners of the ladybird and staple.  So you have a raised ladybird instead of a flat one if you know what I mean.  It works well for tortoise in brown/green hexagonal shapes. Just stick on four feet and head.  It is just one piece of card too.  If you can't understand what the idea is I will try to send a picture.  Fantastic site, ideas are simple just what we need.

Thanks so much for your contribution, Marie!

Materials:

• black construction paper, poster board or cardstock
• red construction paper, poster board or cardstock
  OR
• printer,
• paper,
• stapler,
• scissors,
• glue,
• printer and paper
• Optional:  either wiggly eyes or white paper

Instructions:

• Trace a lunch size or dinner size plate onto the red paper
• Cut equal sized slits onto 4 equal spots on the circle
   
  • if you think of it as a clock, you want to cut at 12, 3, 6 and 9.
  • Make sure each slit only goes about 1/4 of the way across the circle.
• Fold the cuts inward to create a "bowl shape" and tape or staple them
• Trace the same plate onto a piece of black paper.
• Cut the black circle in a little less than half and then cut a bit of a moon shape along the straight edge.
• Glue the head onto your 3 dimensional red body
• Glue wiggly eyes or white circle paper eyes onto the head
• Cut 5 or 6 small black circles out of black construction paper and glue these "spots" onto the body

Note:  Rather than tracing a plate you can use the printable templates below.

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template    color  or   B&W

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