Turtle Craft

Crumpling paper is a great fine motor activity for preschoolers. They can try it out with this adorable turtle craft for kids.

Preschoolers are fascinated with turtles. Animals that can carry their homes on their backs are amazing! Kids will love creating a fun turtle craft that they can customize with their favorite colors.

Turtle Craft

This adorable turtle craft is so versatile. You can add it to your turtle, pond, and Letter Tt lesson plans and activities. Kids will love it!

What You’ll Need

• colored paper

• pencil

• marker

• scissors

• glue

What You’ll Do

Cut your colored paper into 3cm x 3cm squares.

Begin crumpling the paper squares into tight balls. There is no exact number. Start with “a bunch”, and add more later if you need to.

Now, choose a few colored papers to build your turtle. Trace the template and cut it out with scissors.

Take the round cut out (your turtle’s shell), and start to glue the crumpled paper balls around the circle. I find it easiest to glue from one side to the other to contain the glue mess.

Continue to glue the crumpled papers balls until the “shell” is completely covered..

Try to attach the crumpled paper balls adjacent to each other and fill the entire round paper with them.  This will be the shell of the turtle.

Once the shell is filled, allow the glue to dry.

Now, flip the shell over. Glue the head and feet to the underside of the shell (the side with no balls).

Now flip the paper turtle back to its right side and attach the eye cut outs on the head part. Use a black sharpie to draw the eyes on the white eye cut outs.

RESOURCES I LOVE

Little ones can build fine motor skills and develop hand-eye coordination when they play this wooden turtle game that reminds me of Whack-a-Mole.

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