Animal Jars

By: Amanda Formaro

Difficulty: Very Easy

Age: 6 & up

Parental supervision is recommended

 

 

 

Recycle jelly and sauce jars to hold all your little toys, item, and coins. Give your glass a new lease on life by making these adorable animal buddy jars to display in your room! Makes a fun Earth Day craft for kids that is also environmental friendly.

 

What you'll need:

• Clean, empty glass jars
• Felt, any color you like
• Pom poms (for noses)
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• Wiggle eyes
• Gesso (recommended: Liquitex Basics Gesso) or white craft paint
• Patterns

How to make it:

1. Print the patterns.
2. Remove lid from jar and paint with a layer of Gesso or white paint. Let dry.
3. Line the top of the lid with glue. Pipe glue around the outside rim as well.
4. Place lid, glue side down, onto a piece of felt.  Wrap felt around lid and rim and hold snugly so glue can begin to grab. Sometimes felt will soak up the first layer of craft glue. If this happens, pipe more glue around the rim and repeat.
5. Trim the excess felt around the edge of the rim.
6. Fill the jar with whatever knick knacks, toys, or coins that you like.
7. Return the felted lid to the jar.
8. Cut additional animal pieces (ears, cheeks, trunks) from pattern to create animal faces. We used contrasting colors for some of our designs. For example, we used maroon for the red dog’s cheeks to stand out against its red face. Glue these pieces on, using our finished photo as a guide on where to place them.
9. If creating the cat or dog, cut out long thin strips of felt for the whiskers and glue them on top of the cheeks.
10. Glue the facial parts in place. Use pom poms for noses.
11. Glue on wiggle eyes.

Tips:

• Get creative and make whatever animals you like.
• Use jars from jelly, mayonnaise, pickles and other condiments.
• You can use hot glue for attaching the felt to the lids if you like.

 

Resources: http://crafts.kaboose.com