{"id":1000,"date":"2014-08-24T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/24\/bubble-wrap-giraffe-paintings-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:31","slug":"bubble-wrap-giraffe-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/bubble-wrap-giraffe-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubble-wrap Giraffe Paintings for kids to make"},"content":{"rendered":"
We LOVE giraffes in our house and after a recent trip to the Zoo, we just had to make some with our favourite Junk Art material Bubble Wrap and make some cool Giraffe Paintings.<\/div>\n
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We enjoyed a trip to\u00a0Dublin Zoo<\/strong>\u00a0just before we went away on our holidays last week.\u00a0\u00a0My mum was over for a few days and we hadn\u2019t been to\u00a0Dublin Zoo<\/strong>\u00a0with her before. It seemed the perfect time to go as the Zoo had recently welcomed some new baby animals.<\/p>\n

There was a baby\u00a0giraffe<\/strong>, a baby elephant, a lion cub and a baby chimpanzee which had all been born in the last few months. We were lucky enough to see all of the new zoo babies during our visit. We were especially looking forward to seeing the baby\u00a0giraffe<\/strong>\u00a0as\u00a0giraffes<\/strong>\u00a0are one of our favourite animals and he didn\u2019t disappoint. When we arrived at the \u201cAfrican Savannah\u201d area at Dublin Zoo we got very close to one of the adult giraffes.\u00a0\u00a0The baby giraffe was a bit further away but the kids were still delighted to see him.<\/p>\n

We love to base some of our\u00a0arts and crafts activities<\/strong>\u00a0around what we have been doing as a family. The day after our trip to the Zoo we decided we wanted to create some zoo animal art.\u00a0\u00a0We hadn\u2019t tackled\u00a0giraffe pictures<\/strong>\u00a0for a while, so we thought we\u2019d have a go at some giraffe art in celebration of the new baby giraffe that we had seen.<\/p>\n

Bubble Wrap Activities for Kids: Bubble Wrap Giraffe Paintings<\/h2>\n

We love to use\u00a0bubblewrap<\/strong>\u00a0in our activities and I thought it would be brilliant used over yellow and orange paper to create the patchwork coat of a giraffe.<\/p>\n

I cut out a giraffe shape for each of my kids and we set to work.<\/p>\n

We attached the bubble-wrap around a rolling pin.<\/p>\n

We then poured some brown paint onto a paper plate and rolled the bubble wrap covered rolling pin through the paint.<\/p>\n

We then tested the rolling pin out on a spare piece of paper to see how much pressure was needed to get a good pattern onto the giraffe.\u00a0\u00a0We discovered the gentler the roll the better the impression.<\/p>\n

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The boys decided then wanted to paint trees for their giraffes to eat.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>They had been fascinated watching the giraffes as the zoo stripping the leaves off the trees in their enclosure.<\/p>\n

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\nThey set to work using brushes and brown paint for the trunk and branches and corks and green paint to print the leaves. We then attached the giraffes onto the paper with some glue.<\/div>\n
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