Make This Fun Arctic Animal Craft, Just Download the Free Ermine Craft Template and cut out the shapes. Your Preschoolers will love it. Find step-by-step instructions and Easy Paper Crafts on CraftingJeannie.com
Check out this awesome Arctic animal craft. This ermine or stoat is such an easy winter animal craft for preschool, elementary kids, classroom parties, scouts and more.
Get the Free Arctic Animal Craft Template below and you will be able to make enough supplies for a group of 20 kids (or more!) with about 10 minutes of cutting.
Did you know that an Ermine is also called a stoat? And is kinda like a weasel? find more facts about this Arctic animal on Wikipedia.
Enjoy this Winter Animal Craft while reading these Fun Books:
Improving Fine Motor Skills
We all know that crafting is super fun, but it’s also great for improving fine motor skills. As your little cut-out shapes, and draw on faces, not only will they get to express their creativity, but they will also get some fine motor practice.
Here’s What You Need for this Easy Arctic Animal Craft
Here’s your easy Arctic animal craft supply list (This post contains affiliate links to the products mentioned. Read my disclosure policy for more information):
- Free Arctic Animal Craft Template <— Get it Here!
- colored copy paper, colored cardstock, or construction paper
- scissors
- stapler
- glue sticks
- black marker (for the details)
Watch the Arctic Animal Craft Video for step-by-step instructions on how to make this Winter kids craft.
Step 1: Download and Print the Free Winter Animal Craft Printable Template
Download the Free Arctic Animal Craft Printable. The PDF file contains everything you need to make this easy winter craft for kids.
Step 2: Cut Out the Arctic Animal Craft Shapes
Print the free ermine printable template. You will be stapling it to colored paper and cutting out as many shapes as you need.
If you want to make this craft with a group of kids, you can staple the template to up to 10 sheets of copy paper, 5 sheets of cardstock or 5-8 sheets of construction paper.
So, did you know, you can staple together 10 pieces of copy paper and cut out 10 shapes at a time?! That’s my SECRET to fast & easy crafting.
Stapling the paper is very important because it makes sure it doesn’t move as you cut. The more staples the better. Cardstock is the thickest so you may only be able to cut 5 sheets at a time.
Tip: While you’re cutting, if you cut off all parts of the pages that have staples, make sure to re-staple the sheets that are left.
Whenever you’re cutting multiple sheets at a time, make sure they are always stapled together!
Step 3: How to Assemble
The kids will just need to glue it all together and make it their own!
- Glue the black nose onto the body.
- Use a marker to draw a face and personalize your animal.
- Optional: Glue your finished ermine onto a piece of blue construction paper.
- Don’t forget to put your name on the back.
And you’re finished!
This is such a fun and easy Pre-K Winter craft. You can make this Arctic Animal craft for toddlers and as a Letter A craft. This craft is super easy for preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Daycare, or just a fun craft at home idea.
More Winter Crafts
If you liked this craft, check out some of my other Winter Crafts for Kids:
As always, I try to make my crafts fast, easy & inexpensive. Enjoy!