CBeebies House - Creative Cardboard Creatures

You will need...

• Cardboard tube
• Coloured paper
• Pipe cleaner
• Scissors (Grown-up use only)
• Crayons
• Paint
• Paintbrush
• A pen or pencil
• Glue

• Paint your cardboard tube blue and leave to dry
• Fold your yellow paper in half and draw a butterfly wing from the centre fold
• Cut the wing out and open up to make a set of wings
• Use crayons to decorate your wings however you choose
• Glue your cardboard tube to the middle of the wings to make a body
• Stick two pieces of pipe cleaner or card into the tube to make antennae and draw on two beady eyes and a smile.
• Gently press the butterfly wings at the back to make your flying little friend come to life

You will need...

• Cardboard tube
• Coloured paper
• Scissors (Grown-up use only)
• Paint
• Paintbrush
• A pen or pencil
• Glue

• Draw a trunk and two ears
• Cut out the elephant ears and trunk
• Draw some eyes and cut out
• Paint the cardboard tube, ears and trunk grey and wait for them to dry
• Use some glue to stick the ears on
• Fold the trunk to make it wavy and stick it on
• Finally, stick the eyes on and your elephant is finished

You will need...

• Cardboard tube
• Green paint
• White paper or card
• Pink paper or card
• Scissors (Grown-up use only)
• Paintbrush
• Pen or pencil Glue

• Paint your cardboard tube green, leave to dry, then cut down one side to make a mouth
• On white paper, draw around your four fingers to make a set of dinosaur teeth
• Cut out your dinosaur teeth
• Glue your teeth to the inside of your dinosaur mouth like so. Use a black pen to draw on two beady eyes
• On pink paper, draw around two of your fingers to make a tongue
• Cut out the pink tongue
• Glue the tongue into the back of the tube and squeeze your dinosaur to make him talk

You will need...

• Cardboard tube
• Green card
• Blue card for the pond
• Pink or red paper
• Green paint
• Paint brush
• Glue stick
• Sticky tape 
• Pen and pencil
• Scissors (Grown-up use only)

• Paint the cardboard roll green. 
• When it's fully dry, use some sticky tape to stick down one end of the cardboard tube. 
• Now, using some green paper, draw four legs for your frog. Ask a grownup to cut them out. 
• Stick them on with glue or sticky tape.

• With a grown-up's help, cut out two small white circles and stick them on to make the frog's eyes. Finish them off by drawing a little black dot in each one.
• Ask a grown-up to help you cut out a long strip of red or pink paper and curl it around a pencil to make the frog's tongue.
• Use some glue or sticky tape to attach it.

• If you want to make a pond for your frog to sit on, ask a grown-up to cut out a pond shape from the blue card, you can also add a few lily pads using the leftover green card.