Walrus Shape Craft for Kids [Free PDF Template]
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Floppy flippers, long tusks, and chilly Arctic dips make walruses a favorite animal for curious kids. This walrus shape craft invites children to explore these fascinating animals while making a cute walrus using familiar shapes. Little ones will piece together circles, ovals, rectangles, and triangles for their winter loving animal to take shape.
Kids will be excited to create this fun winter animal craft for kids, especially since it blends hands-on learning with a cute arctic animal craft they can proudly show off.
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Easy Arctic Animal Activity
This shape learning activity is designed for children in preschool through kindergarten who are beginning to recognize and name shapes. The project turns simple geometric shapes into an adorable walrus to help kids see how they work together to make art!
Little hands will stay busy practicing fine motor skills as they cut, place, and glue each piece. Shape recognition, spatial awareness, and following directions are also honed along the way. Seeing their walrus come together piece by piece will help their confidence grow, too!
Parents and teachers can easily prepare for this activity by grabbing our printable walrus template.
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Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Walrus Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
Directions
Start by printing the template. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this walrus to life!
Look for the eyes and glue them onto the head, just below both eyebrows.
Find the two mouth area pieces and overlap them slightly in the center. Add glue to secure them together, creating the walrus snout.
Grab the nose piece and glue it right to the middle and top of the mouth area.
Now, find the two tusks and glue them behind the mouth area so the points hang down.
Add glue to the back of the finished mouth area and place it on the lower half of the head, just under the eyes.
Take the body piece and lay it flat on your table. Add glue to the bottom of the head and press it onto the top of the body. Look at that, your walrus is really starting to come to life now!
Glue the legs to each side of the body.
Now, find the flippers and glue one at the bottom of each leg. You’re done!
Take a moment to chat with your child about how walruses use their flippers to swim through the water, balance their big bodies, and even scoot along the ice.
Don’t you just love how this adorable walrus craft turned out? If your kids enjoyed creating it, be sure to check out our other fun winter crafts for kids for even more ideas!
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These four printable pages are an easy indoor activity to do at home or the classroom this winter with no prep needed. Since they are so much fun, kids will happily ask to do them again and again.
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This winter read it build it write it activity turns learning letters into hands-on fun that kids will love. Your little learners will be able to explore the alphabet by reading, writing, and building each letter in ways that match how they learn best.
They’ll read the letters, write them with markers, then make them with manipulatives. This winter activity keeps kids engaged and strengthens letter recognition, handwriting skills, and confidence all in one cozy learning resource.
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Walrus Shape Craft
Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Walrus Template
Instructions
- Print the template and cut out the pieces you need.
- Begin by gluing the eyes onto the head, just below the eyebrows.
- Next, glue the mouth area pieces together, overlapping them slightly in the center to form one snout.
- Glue the nose onto the top and center of the mouth area.
- Now, glue the tusks behind the mouth area.
- Glue the finished mouth and tusks onto the lower portion of the head.
- Continue to make the walrus by gluing the head onto the top of the body piece.
- Now, glue the legs onto each side of the body.
- Finish by gluing the flippers horizontally onto the bottom of the legs.
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