February (week 7) - Decorating Insects & Reptiles

Painting and decorating inspects and reptiles is very easy and quick art and craft piece to do with toddlers. The prep time is only about 5 minutes and the fun can last as the insects and reptiles can be embellished until your toddlers are all art and crafted out!

The finished product - decorated lizard

Things you will need to create your insects and reptiles are:
/ A4 paper (any colour)
/ Paints (any colour)
/ Range of different paint brushes
/ Glitter (any colour)
/ Art straws
/ Black felt tip pen
/ PVA glue
/ Sequins
/ Wooden coffee stirrers
/ Cellotape

Decorated insects and reptile prep

Follow these steps to make your beautiful insects and reptiles:
/ First thing is to cut out the insects reptiles - this is a job for an adult obviously. To cut out multiple copies just draw the outline on one piece of paper then stack up approx 10 pieces behind the template when you cut it out.
/ For the butterfly, stack up some paper, fold in half, draw the outline then cut it out.
/ Get decorating - it's up to your crafty toddler how to decorate but you can paint first and adorn with sequins and glitter later or you can glue first and layer on the decorations painting once the glue is dry.
/ Leave to dry.
/ Draw on eyes and smiles to make your animals friendly.
/ Cellotape a coffee stirrer to the back of the animal to make it come alive!!!

Top tip: keep the animals / objects that you cut out as large as possible this makes it easier for crafty toddlers to hold and decorate at the same time.

You can put your own spin on this, cut out some different animals or objects such as fish, lions, flowers, leaves and heart.

Decorated snake

Decorated butterfly