DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Beaver Wreath Craft

Here is a Christmas ornament with a Canadian twist!  But if you don't like beavers, you could call it a woodchuck (er, I mention this because when my daughter first saw it she exclaimed "mommy what a cute woodchuck" *grin*).  The craft is also good for "Beaver" troops (part of the boy scout movement).

Materials:

• a printer,
• a piece of paper...  .
• some crayons, paint, markers or pencil crayons,
• scissors,
• ribbon, string or wool.
• glue,
• something hard as a base, like cardboard, a margarine container lid or a frozen juice can lid.

Optional materials:

• paint,
• Christmas wrapping paper,
• Christmas stickers.

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template of choice.
• Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces.
• Cut a circle about the right size for the wreath (doesn't have to be exact) from cardboard or a margarine container lid.  Or just use a frozen juice can lid.
• Either paint the circle a Christmas colour or cover with gift wrap or coloured paper.
• Glue the wreath onto the circle.
• Glue the beaver into the center of the wreath and the hat onto the beaver.
• Glue the Christmas message onto the top or bottom of the wreath.
• Decorate further (as desired) with Christmas stickers.
• Attach a string, ribbon or wool as a hanger so you can hang on the Christmas tree (either by poking a hole in the base and threading the string through or by attaching well with tape).

Craft Templates:

• Close template window when done printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Templates   (color)   or   (B&W)

Printable version of these instructions