Unleash the inner artist in your little ones with this fun and easy leopard craft idea! All you need are popsicle sticks, a bit of paint, and lots of creativity.

Yellow Leopard Made From Popsicle Sticks

Our wood craft stick leopard craft tutorial is a quick and easy art project idea that requires very few supplies & steps, all while making a great pretend puppet piece to play with afterwards!

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Popsicle sticks and leopard spots make for the perfect craft project! Kids will love creating their own animals with this easy tutorial.

Craft Supplies:

Jumbo Popsicle Sticks
Mini Popsicle Sticks
Low Temp Glue Gun
Yellow Craft Paint
Black Craft Paint
Small Paint Brush
Foam Paint Brush
Small Paper Plate
Scissors
White Cardstock Paper
Leopard Head Printable {on box.com}
Crayons, Coloring Pencils or Markers
optional material – Wiggle Eyes

Directions:

First get the glue gun hot and ready.
Assemble the base of your leopard friend by gluing THREE jumbo popsicle sticks and TWO mini popsicle sticks together to look like a fence door {3 next to each other and the mini popsicle sticks across to secure in place.}
Allow it to dry completely. Repeat for each leopard you want to make today.
Now grab your two colors of craft paint, paper plate and form brush.
Squirt both colors of paint on the paper plate.
Using the foam paint brush, first paint the flat side of your popsicle stick shape completely yellow.
Follow that up by making black polka dots all over.
Set it aside to let it dry completely.
While that is drying, go ahead and grab the printed printable, your choice of coloring material and scissors.
Go ahead and color in one of the head shapes & trim it out afterwards.
To finish off the Popsicle Stick Leopard craft, glue the head piece to the painted wood shape.
Add any other embellishments you see fit.
Then let it dry completely before displaying proudly!!!
Don’t forget to snap a few pictures of your finished popsicle stick yellow leopard creations to share with us! #gluedtomycrafts

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Popsicle Stick Leopard

Our wood craft stick leopard craft tutorial is a quick and easy art project idea that requires very few supplies & steps, all while making a great pretend puppet piece to play with afterwards!

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Instructions

First get the glue gun hot and ready.
Assemble the base of your leopard friend by gluing THREE jumbo popsicle sticks and TWO mini popsicle sticks together to look like a fence door {3 next to each other and the mini popsicle sticks across to secure in place.}
Allow it to dry completely. Repeat for each leopard you want to make today.
Now grab your two colors of craft paint, paper plate and form brush.
Squirt both colors of paint on the paper plate.
Using the foam paint brush, first paint the flat side of your popsicle stick shape completely yellow.
Follow that up by making black polka dots all over.
Set it aside to let it dry completely.
While that is drying, go ahead and grab the printed printable, your choice of coloring material and scissors.
Go ahead and color in one of the head shapes & trim it out afterwards.
To finish off the Popsicle Stick Leopard craft, glue the head piece to the painted wood shape.
Add any other embellishments you see fit.
Then let it dry completely before displaying proudly!!!

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