During the winter months, children spend a lot of time at home. Are you looking for fun craft ideas to do with your kids? Then you can try making a clown face and have a lot of fun with your little ones. Here are some easy and colorful craft ideas to try this winter.
Make a clown out of paper plates and pom poms
With this paper plate clown tutorial you are sure to have a great time and have a beautiful piece that your child will definitely love.
Tools required:
Thick glue
Scissors
Sharpie-Marker
Accesories:
1 small paper plate
Cardstock-Papier
Kleine Pom Poms
2 googly eyes
Instructions for crafting:
- First things first: take the paper plate, the pompoms and the thick glue. Spread the glue well where you want the clown's hair.
- Place the pom poms in a row on the glue. Set them aside.
- Next, grab a piece of paper and a pair of scissors. Cut out clown features from the cardboard - a large triangular hat, a large red nose, etc.
- About the paper plate clownto be completed for children, glue the cardboard pieces and the googly eyes to the designated places on the paper plate and finally draw a smile with the black Sharpie marker.
- At this point you can add more decorations to give the clown a unique look! Make sure the glue hardens completely before moving the clown! Then display it proudly for all to see!
Also read:Make a hat for the clown: accessories for the costume
Make an accordion clown out of paper
Here's how to make a paper accordion clown for kids. The easy step-by-step instructions for this paper craft accordion clown will help you!
Materials needed for the paper craft accordion clown:
Green, blue and yellow marbled paper
Drawn and painted on paperClown Element
Scissors
adhesive
Procedure for the paper craft accordion clown:
- Fold the three marbled papers into an accordion.
- Then fold each paper in half and glue the ends together with glue to make a fan. You now have three colorful paper fans.
- Connect the threecolorful paper fansat the ends with glue to make a clown face.
- Cut out the clown face elements from the paper sheet and glue them onto the clown face.
- Your accordion folded paper clown is now complete. It's so easy to make a clown face with children!
Clown face crafts for toddlers and preschoolers
A fun and easy craft for toddlers and preschoolers to make a clown face out of paper plates.
Tools required:
Scissors
Materials required:
Rosa Pappteller
Red tissue paper
Googly eyes
Craft foam in white, red and 2 other contrasting colors for the bow tie
Großer roter Pom Pom
Glue
Black marker
DIY instructions:
- Draw a big smile on the white craft foam and cut it out.
- Place the cut out shape on the red craft foam and draw a smaller smile inside. Cut this out too.
- On a different color of craft foam, draw a bow tie and cut it out.
- Now cut out some dots that your child can attach to the bow tie to create a polka dot bow tie.
- Glue a large pompom in the middleof the paper plate.
- Add two large googly eyes on either side of the pom pom.
- Scrunch up the tissue paper and attach it to either side of the hair paper plate.
- Now stick on the white smile (you can design it as a happy or sad clown).
- Stick the red smile over it.
- Add the dots on the bow tie with glue and then glue the bow tie in place.
- Allow to dry.
Making toilet paper clown with children
What you need to make a toilet paper clown:
Craft templates for clowns (below)
We recommend printing the templates on card stock for best results.
Markers or colored pencils
A full roll of toilet paper
2 empty toilet paper rolls (if you don't have any, get creative! Yarn or raffia works great!)
Scissors, tape, glue stick
Follow these simple steps:
- Color and cut out! (Glue the party hat together and set it aside until the end.)
- Eyes, nose and mouth with glue stick on the fullAttach toilet paper roll!
- Cut out 2 empty toilet paper rolls and insert them into the full roll to make the clown's hair! (You'll need to cut them all the way down one side to fit the full roll). If you don't have empty toilet paper rolls, use yarn or anything else you have that works.
- Put the hat on the “collar” and put the party hat on top! So your cheerful clown made of toilet paper is ready!
Here are the printable templates for the toilet paper clown:
