Free Craft Activities For Kids:

Fun Animal Mask Crafts

Our free homeschool craft activities for kids are all about seeing how much fun your children can have making things.

Homeschool animal crafts are a sure fire winner - just have a look at William and Catherine hiding behind their bird animal mask.

Free Crafts For Kids

I'll let you into a secret - homeschooling fun kids crafts are actually really simple. The basics of a fun homeschool animal mask couldn't be easier.

All you need is a paper plate and you've got the start of a great homeschool free kids crafts activity.

It's amazing how an animal mask can be so straight forward yet look so good. You attach the plate to your child's head by making a small hole at either side of the plate and tying on thin elastic.

The elastic holds the animal mask firmly in place, but a couple of pieces of string tied together behind your child's head would work too.

Cut eye holes in the plate lined up with your child's head.

This is a fun kids crafts activity that relies on being able to see - so check your child can look out properly!

Now you have your homeschool mask, you can start on the fun part - decorating it.

Luckily this is a free crafts for kids activity which you can adapt whatever the age of your child.

Homeschooling Fun Crafts For Kids

A toddler could just scribble a few pretty marks on the plate for feathers and a beak. They could use paint. Or maybe your bird comes from Paradise and a sprinkle of glitter might add some gloss to the feathers?

Catherine and William had fun making feathers out of tissue paper and sticking them down. A bit of help from a parent often comes in with homeschool craft activities for kids, so you could help with the boring bits like cutting out the feathers and let your kids get on with sticking them down!

The beak is made from a triangle of yellow card folded in half.

We've used another yellow triangle of card above - I don't know why, but it looks fun and card is almost free - so why not?

Our homeschool bird animal mask eyes are also yellow circles of card.

There you have it - fun, free kids crafts for homeschooling which really work!

More Animal Crafts for Kids

Here are more ideas for how to make a homeschooling animal mask:

• Homeschooling craft activities for kids are best if you can base them on your child's favorite animal. Does your child love lions? How about white paper whiskers and brown tissue for a mane?
• How about a homeschool frog? A paper cup cut down would make good stand-out eyes, and the nostrils could be the eye holes.
• William loves sharks. How about painting the teeth on or making them out of triangles of white craft card?
• Homeschooling fun crafts for kids wouldn't be the same without rats. Pipe cleaners make good whiskers and pink card ears look good.
• You could try making paper mache with our simple homeschool paper mache recipe and create different kinds of animal masks to have all sorts of fun with free crafts for kids. Go and see Catherine peeking out from beneath Mustafa lion mask!

Homeschooling craft activities for kids certainly turned William into a fantastic bird!

My homeschool free kids crafts often use paper and card as their basic ingredients; it's amazing what you can achieve with such simple materials.

Homeschooling paper masks is something you could try for fun kids craft activities at a children's party. Nicole has lots more suggestions for kids craft party themes. She shows you lots of fun party activities, from T-shirt painting to making anklets and jewelry.

Free craft activities for kids are a great way to have fun together.

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