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Paper Sloth Crafts to Celebrate International Sloth Day

October 12, 2015 by Aysh Siddiqua

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Inside: Three quick and easy sloth crafts that are simple enough to do with even toddlers and preschoolers if not older students. Find out how to make sloths out of paper.

paper crafts to celebrate international sloth day wordsnneedles

The reason for my making these crafts with my kids was to introduce them to these little creatures. We don’t have sloths in our part of the world but I needed a conversation starter to talk about endangered species and what is causing them to go extinct.

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Sloths are kind creatures and they look so cute carrying their babies and hanging from trees. I love how their faces look like they are smiling. I also love how sloths symbolize calm, carefree attitude. I thought they would make excellent examples of teaching children to be themselves however they feel the world feels about them. People keep them as pets too so I thought my children would love to know about this creature.

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SIMPLE SLOTH CRAFT IDEAS

We have been trying a few paper crafts to celebrate Sloth Day. If you are homeschooling, then these ideas may help you with Rainforest themed crafts too.

We made a paper plate sloth, a few bookmarks and a handprint sloth.  The bookmarks will be posted as a post of its own but here are the instructions to make the other two crafts.

Paper plate Sloth

What you need:

  • Paper plate
  • Color pencils
  • Markers

paper plate sloth toddler preschool craft rainforest

  1. Draw a sloth face with its claws using pencil as shown in the picture.
  2. Outline using a black felt tip or marker.
  3. Time to give it to your kids to color!

Handprint Sloth

What you need:

  • A piece of cardstock (you can also use cardboard from packaging)
  • Pencil
  • Dot markers / golden sketch pen
  • Scissors

hand print sloth international sloth day toddler preschool craft rainforest

  1. Draw the outline of your or your child’s hand.
  2. Draw the face of the sloth on the thumb part of the handprint. Draw the claws on the four fingers.
  3. Let your child dot up the sloth with the marker or sketch pen.

I hope you enjoyed our craft. My toddler and preschooler loved this activity. They found it really cute. If you have older child you can involve them or let them carry on independently.

internationalsloth day blog hop

This post is part of a blog hop to raise awareness for International Sloth Day Blog Hop organised by Peakle Pie. Hop on over and visit the other bloggers to see what fun and fantastic crafts and activities they have for you.

Peakle Pie – Sloth Games

Witty Hoots – Gingerbread Sloths

Words and Needles – Paper Crafts to Celebrate International Sloth Day

Kelly’s Classroom – Facts About Sloths

Share it! Science News – Amazing Adaptations

Schooling a Monkey – Chenille STEM Sloths

Craft Create Calm – Sloth Books for Kids

Sticky Booger Home Schoolers – Feeling Slothy! Facts and Ideas

 

If you are a blogger, do join us in the linky below.

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Category: Kids CraftsTag: Blog Hop, Child's Play, Crafts, For Kids, Junk Play, Tot-schooling

About Aysh Siddiqua

Hi! I am Ayesha Siddiqua ~ founder of Jeddah Mom. I am an expat mom to three little blessings living as an expat in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I am a college lecturer turned stay at home mom. I like to share my routines, schedules, kids activity and DIY ideas with you. Read more on Jeddah Mom.

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  1. Helen @ Peakle Pie

    October 12, 2015 at 10:10 pm

    Peakles and I think these paper sloths are really cute – we will be making some soon! Thank you for joining in with the International Sloth Day Blog Hop via Peakle Pie!

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    • Aysh

      October 13, 2015 at 7:25 am

      Thank you for stopping by Helen. My kids loved them… we have a few more sloth crafts that we did… we will be linking up soon.

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