Instructions for making a lion: For children aged 4 and over

Age: from 4 years

What you need: scraps of wool, brown fabric or felt, cardboard, glue, scissors, pencil, felt-tip pens

craft instructions

• Help your children transfer the lion’s body from the template onto the cardboard and cut out both.
• Now your child can apply glue evenly to the cardboard by spreading the glue thinly over the entire surface with a piece of cardboard. If the glue is applied too thickly, it will push through the fabric too much and stains will form.
• Now your child puts a piece of brown fabric or felt on it.
• Use sharp scissors to cut off the excess fabric from the wrong side.
• Using the second template, draw the lion’s face on a piece of light-colored fabric, cut it out and glue it to the brown lion’s head.
• Now your child cuts woolen threads for the lion’s mane.
• She coats the edge of the lion’s head with glue and lays the wool threads individually around the lion’s face. Since the wool threads constantly stick to your fingers, it is best to hand him the threads one by one. Your child can then carefully place the threads on the edge of the glue without touching the glue. Only at the end does it press all the threads together with its fingers.
• You also glue some wool threads to the tail.
• Finally, your child draws a face with a mouth and eyes for his lion with a black felt-tip pen.
• Doesn’t the lion with his mane look dangerous now?