Clothespin Farm Animals

Craft these cute clothespin farm animals and build a box corral for them to sleep in.	Safety Tips Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors. Keep the stapler out of children's reach. Watch out for this sign . It means adult help is needed for the particular step.
Materials Tissue box or similar-sized box Printable card stock Wooden clothespins Crayons or colored pencils Construction paper Colored tape Flower sequins or craft foam shapes Glue Acrylic paint Paint brushes Stapler Scissors Craft scissors with zigzag edges (optional)

Steps

	1.	Print out the clothespin farm animals set on white card stock or draw your own animals. Notice the animals come in mirror-image pairs.
	2.	Color and cut out the animals.
	3.	Glue the animal pairs back-to-back.
	4.	Clip on wooden clothespins to make the animal's legs: one clothespin for two-legged animals and two for four-legged animals. If you want to build a box corral for your farm animals, continue with the steps below.
	5.	Trim off the top panel off a tissue box or any box that can accomodate your clothespin farm animals. Staple the side flaps if necessary.
	6.	Paint the outside of the box with any dark-colored acrylic paint.
	7.	Cut strips from construction paper. You'll need about 14 or more of these to build a fence around your box.
	8.	Glue the paper strips around the box.
	9.	Use colored tape or glue on a very long strip of paper around the entire middle section of the box to complete your fence.
	10.	You may further decorate your box corral if you like. I cut green paper with a pair of zigzag-edged scissors to make some grass and glued these around the bottom edge of my box.
	11.	I added some flowers that I punched out using a flower hole punch. You can also use ready-made flower stickers, sequins or craft foam shapes.
	12.	After playing with your cute clothespin farm animals, you can let them rest inside their pretty box corral!

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