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| Bubble wrap Tortoise |
We are delighted to be taking part in Best Toys for Toddlers 60 Day #junkplay challenge. Today is the turn of bubble wrap, which is one of our favourite junk materials to craft with. It is such a versatile material to work with in kid’s arts and crafts projects. We have already used it to make
some cool jellyfish pictures, painted and printed it to make our favourite animal the giraffe, used it to learn about different shapes and pressed it into salt dough to create a quirky effect over it. And there’s always fun to had popping the bubbles on the left over bubble wrap at the end of your activity!
This bubble wrap activity was inspired by my eldest son whose favourite book is Esio Trot by Roald Dahl. For those of you who don’t speak tortoise, Esio Trot is tortoise spelt backwards.
How to make a bubble wrap tortoise
1. Place the paper plate over the bubble wrap and draw around it using a marker. Then carefully cut this out using sharp scissors. Bubble wrap can be tricky to cut out so this is best done by an adult.
2. Glue the circle of bubble wrap on top of the paper plate.
3. Paint over the bubble wrap with green paint.
4. Whilst this dries cut out shapes using the cardboard to make the tortoises head, legs and tail.
5. When the paint is dry tape or glue the tail, arms and legs on to the back of the paper plate.
6. To finish off the face add on a googly eye and a smile with a black marker.
7. Optional – create a little home for your tortoise to live in using an empty cardboard box and stuff it with newspaper.
We are always looking for new ways to include bubble wrap into our arts and crafts activities, so we are really looking forward to seeing what other bubble wrap ideas the other participants in this challenge come up with.
What is your favourite way to craft with bubble wrap?
Love this Nicola! Great way to play with bubble wrap and love how you used it to mimic the shell! Thank you for taking part in 60 Day Junk Play Challenge!
Thanks Michelle delighted to be a part of it!
I love this! What a cool tortoise! And Esio Tot is a great book 🙂
Anna
My son loved Esio Trot. I can't wait for him to read more Roald dahl. I loved his books as a kid.
I love how simple this is to make – I always have heaps of bubble wrap that I save and never use!
Bubble wrap has so much potential – never throw it away!
Cute tortoise! A great craft created from a book.
Thanks for linking #LetKidsBeKids
Thanks Karen.
This is a lovely idea and I bet Monkey would love it, will have to give it a go! Xx #letkidsbekids
Hope Monkey enjoys it!
Great tortoise idea. We just like popping bubble wrap, but it's great for printing patterns with as well. #letkidsbekids
We love to pop the bubbles as well! A great stress reliever…
Such a cute craft! thank you for sharing on Arty Crafty Kids!
Thanks Helen!
Great idea. We love all paper plate crafts so saving this idea 🙂 #LetKidsBeKids
Great Clare!
I love the idea of using junk to do crafts with the kids and this turtle is adorable! I'm going to add this one to my arsenal. My kids would love this! Thank you for the idea.
Junk crafting is so much fun! We are going to do some more in the Easter holidays.
Love this! We did something similar this week with a sea turtle but the bubble wrap on yours is a great idea! Thanks for joining in with Tuesday Tutorials #pintorials
I loved your sea turtle!
Lucas says – I love bubble wrap and apart from popping it, I never thought to use it in my crafts. This is a very cool tortoise!! Thanks for linking to #minicreations
You must get mum to use it in your next craft activity Lucas it is very cool!