With this yarn wrapping craft resource, you can make 10 different wooly animals with leftover wool or yarn. It's a fun activity for young kids who love animals and crafts. You can use this resource to create your own fuzzy friends, such as ice bear, sheep, crocodile, gecko, lama, wiener dog, cat, shark, hedgehog and owl. With yarn wrapping, kids as young as 3 can have fun and learn. This easy craft helps them develop their fine motor skills and shape recognition.
This resource contains 10 templates for making wooly animals. Each template shows you how to cut and glue the animal shape. You can print the templates on white or colored paper, and glue them onto a piece of corrugated card of similar size. Then, you can cut them out and wrap them with wool, yarn, or thread.
Yarn wrapping is a good activity for kids because it helps them develop their fine motor skills and their understanding of basic shapes. Fine motor skills are the ability to use small muscles in the hands and fingers to perform tasks such as grasping, cutting, tying, and writing. Yarn wrapping requires kids to use these skills to hold the wool or thread, wrap it around the template, and secure it with glue or knots. These skills are essential for many everyday activities. Yarn wrapping also helps kids learn about shapes and their features. By wrapping the wool or thread around the template, kids can see how the shape is formed by its sides, corners, and angles. This helps them develop their spatial awareness.
Make your own fuzzy friends with yarn wrapping! This easy craft helps kids from 3 years old and above to develop their fine motor skills.
To get started, all you need is to download and print our Wooly Animals templates. You can try our Freebie or download the full resource with 10 Wooly Animals.
Print out the desired wooly-animal template on white or colored paper and cut out the rectangular image along the dotted line.
Glue the image onto a piece of corrugated card of similar size.
Cut the animal template out: On the front side you now have the drawn version and on the back side the silhouette in neutral corrugated cardboard. You can glue the extra eyes on the back.
Wind wool or ends of thread around the template... keep on winding until your wooly animal is finished!
Make your own fuzzy friends with yarn wrapping! This easy craft helps kids from 3 years old and above to develop their fine motor skills.
