Heart Animals – Fox and Panda Quick Crafts
Meet some friends Elise just made: Frisky Fox and Patient Panda. And no, I did not come up with the names. That was all the 2 year old.
Patient Panda was made entirely out of heart shapes – a two-fer for a craft and some shape learning! Frisky Fox had a few more shapes, but both of them helped her work on developing those ever-important fine motor skills.
What You'll Find On This Page
A Quick, Step-by-Step Heart Panda Video
All of our crafts have a purpose, and this one’s learning and development objectives were that it would allow us:
- an opportunity to talk about our shapes (hearts, triangles, circles)
- to expand our knowledge on each animal
- work on Elise’s fine motor skills by using the glue stick and placing the pieces
Fox Made From Hearts
Panda Made from Hearts
Fox Heart Craft
- cut out two small hearts for the ears and then two smaller hearts in white for the insides of the ears
- make a tiny heart for the nose (I just drew it on)
Heart Panda Craft
This adorable heart panda craft is sure to please everyone, from young to the young-at-heart! Grab some simple supplies and let’s get crafting. This craft also includes a video tutorial for the littlest ones to follow along.
Materials
- Fox Made From Hearts
- Fox Supplies: two colors of paper (A & B), black pen, hole punch and glue
- Fox Cuts: Large heart in color A, small heart in color B, 2 small triangles in color A, 2 smaller triangles in color B, tail shape in color A, tail shape in color B
- Panda Made from Hearts
- Panda Supplies: two colors of paper (A & B), red crayon, googly eyes, glue
- Panda Cuts: large heart in color A, medium heart in color B, 3 small hearts in color B.
Instructions
- Cut out two small hearts for the ears and then two smaller hearts in white for the insides of the ears
- Make a tiny heart for the nose (I just drew it on)
- If your child is older they can do all of this, but I prepped both animals for my young child. While she was napping, I punched holes in the fox’s tail. Because she’s only two and we had never done animals like this before, I drew a nose and smile on the small heart and eyes on the large one. I also glued the ear and pieces tail pieces so that she would have two complete ears and a complete tail.
- I glued the googly eyes down with a stronger glue than what I give her to use. I might be a tad bit paranoid about googly eyes being ripped off. Again, you can skip this and let your child do it if they are able.
Over to You
How adorable is this? Do you have any crafts made from shapes we can try next? Please share this on Pinterest or Facebook to spread the love.
Hello could you please post (or better yet email me) the Fox picture?
Would really appreciate it!
Evelina, I’ve updated the post with the image – I have no idea why it was no longer showing! :)