The Painted Panda

The Painted Panda

Who loves an easy craft? Me!!! This painted fork panda is perfect for painting time with kids. It can be done as a stand-alone craft or paired with a great panda book, like Pandamonia from Usborne Books & More!


Supplies:
Black construction paper
White paper
Green or other color construction paper
Googly eyes
White paint
Black Paint
Paintbrush
Fork
Glue Stick
Scissors


Instructions: 

1.) Gather your supplies.

2.) Cut ears, eyes spots, and nose out of the black paper. Freehand them and then you can reshape or resize them if you need to later. Cut the inner eye white spots out of the white paper.


3.) Dip the fork in white paint and paint in a round-ish shape. It doesn't have to be perfect or thick.
*Tip: The lighter the coat of paint the faster it dries! Encourage kids to lightly dip their fork in the paint and not overfill their forks.
You can see in the top left where I had WAY too much paint on my fork and it took a long time to dry and looks kind of gloppy.

4.) Use the glue stick to glue the paper panda spots and nose to the white fork panda face. The paint does not have to be completely dry to do this.

5.) When the white paint is dry or mostly dry paint the mouth lines on the panda.

And there you have it. A fork panda in 5 simple steps!!!

Enjoy!




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