Creating a paper plate tiger craft is easy, peasy! With a dash of paint and imagination, your kids will turn a regular looking paper plate into a ferocious (but super cute) looking tiger craft.
Paper plate crafts are perfect for crafting both at home as well as in the classroom – they are easy, they are fun and they are cheap even if crafting with larger groups.
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Ready to have your kids make a tiger craft of their own? Let’s do this!
How to Make the Paper Plate Tiger Craft
What You Need:
- scissors
- glue stick
- paper plate
- white paper
- pink colored paper
- black paper
- orange paint
- paintbrush
- black marker
Step by Step Tutorial
You will need one paper plate to make one tiger like ours.
You can star by drawing a half circle like shape on the bottom of the paper plate, to mark where the paper plate will be painted, and which part to leave white.
Paint the top part with orange paint.
Let the paint dry.
Have kids cut out a snout-like shape from white paper and glue it to the center of the tiger’s head where the orange and white parts meet.
Make paper circles for the eyes and glue them onto the paper plate.
Draw a black circle inside the white one, to make the pupils.
You can also have the kids use large googly eyes.
Have them color the giant black circle, leaving the smaller one white for an eye gloss effect.
Repeat the steps for the other eye.
Have kids start adding triangular stripes with a black marker beginning at the top of the head.
They can also paint these with black paint (although using thick black markers is a little bit easier).
Make the stripes on the side of the head as well.
Then, have them draw a nose and playful whisker spots.
To create the ears, have them cut and glue black and pink papers for an inner and outer ear.
Then, glue them to the back of the tiger’s head.
Ta-da!
Your kids’ tiger craft is completed!
We think it looks majestic!
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