The cheerful giraffe is an animal greatly beloved by children and adults alike; they’re difficult not to love- they are extraordinary animals after all. Why not make your student’s day and incorporate an activity about giraffes into your upcoming lesson plans about zoo animals, the letter “G” or the wild animals in Africa? See our list of gleeful giraffe activity ideas for primary students below!
1. Hand Stamp Giraffe
In this hand-stamp activity, your students will have great fun getting their hands dirty and nurturing their awareness of color. All your students will need to create this baby giraffe is their hands, some paint, paintbrushes, and scrap or art paper.
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2. Giraffe Corner Bookmark
If your students are animal lovers and you’re trying to encourage them to practice their reading skills more frequently, then this giraffe corner bookmark may be just the craft for you! You’ll require brown, yellow, and pink paper, a glue stick, pens, and scissors to complete this activity.
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3. Paper Plate Giraffe
In this activity, your students will get creative by using a paper plate to create a cheerful giraffe. To get started you’ll need paper plates and common craft materials such as poster paint, glue, googly eyes, crayons, and other decorative items.
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4. Paper Cone Giraffe
This paper cone giraffe will help you teach your learners about shapes in a memorable and interactive manner all the while improving their motor skills. To get started, all you’ll require is different color craft paper, scissors, a ruler, craft glue, and a black marker.
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5. Textured Giraffe Craft
Help your students create these textured giraffes using only scrap material found around the classroom. Materials include ripped pieces of scrap paper, old buttons, cardboard boxes for the giraffe spots, feathers, fabrics, and other odds and ends.
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6. 3D Paper Giraffe
Are you teaching your students about 3D shapes and dimensions? You may want to consider this 3D paper giraffe craft circle time suggestion. To get started you’ll need some scrap card paper, bright color paint, markers, glue stick, scissors, and cardstock.
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7. Finger Puppet Giraffe
This finger puppet giraffe provides an interactive way for your students to improve their giraffe knowledge, express themselves creatively and garner the benefits involved with puppet play. In addition to your general craft supplies, all you’ll require is a scrap card, yarn, and googly eyes.
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8. Bubble Wrap Giraffes
It’s likely that you have some bubble wrap lying around to attempt this giraffe exercise with your students. You’ll also need some colored cards and paint. By placing paint on the bubble wrap and pressing against the card, you’ll create what looks like giraffe spots.
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9. No-Sew Giraffe Costume
This no-sew giraffe costume could come to the rescue of a student who forgot to tell their parent about costume day. You’ll need tulle, scissors, elastic, and safety pins, as well as a plain brown t-shirt, giraffe tights, and a giraffe ears and tail set.
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10. Cardboard Giraffe Toy
Can you imagine a way more fun to teach your students about the importance of recycling and upcycling, than having them create their very own cardboard toy collection? All they’ll need for this activity is spare cardboard, a craft knife or scissors, paint, and a paintbrush.
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11. Origami Paper Giraffes
This exciting origami paper giraffe activity only requires markers, scissors, and a square sheet of paper cut to the dimensions of 21x21cm. This activity may be a good choice to bide some time for your lessons on the letter “G’, zoo animals, or African animals.
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12. Paper Roll Giraffe
Instead of throwing out your old paper rolls, rather help your students transform them into tall, crafted giraffes. Gather your spare paper rolls, yellow and brown paint, yellow card, glue, scissors, and googly eyes to get started on this interactive activity.
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13. Hole Punch Giraffe
This activity is beneficial for children because it helps them develop fine motor skills and good hand-eye coordination. The materials you’ll need are fairly simple; including different colored cards, scissors, markers, glue sticks, and of course, a hole punch.
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14. Giraffe Mask
These masks can be used in many different activities; including dress-up games, dramatic play, and storytelling- great fun for animal lovers. To get started, you’ll need a colored card, scissors, paint, a foam sheet, and string. This activity is easily adapted to other animal craft activities too.
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15. Letter “G” Giraffe Craft
This craft is a great activity for students who are learning about letters in the alphabet. The best part is that you can start this activity with materials likely already laying around your home or classroom, including construction paper, markers or crayons, glue sticks, and scissors.
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16. Giraffe Cookies
The best kind of exercise is one that winds up tasting delicious in the end (so say our inside sources- preschoolers)! This recipe requires the following ingredients: nut butter cookies, graham crackers, chocolate chips, pretzel sticks, raisins, rolos, and candy eyes.
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17. 3D Paper Model Giraffe
Looking for your next detailed circle time lesson? Try this 3D giraffe printable. Your students will need crayons to color it in and then decorate their printouts before they begin to cut out the model pieces and put the model together.
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18. Giraffe Headband
We’re sure you’ve heard that when they grow up, your student would like to become… a giraffe. Make their wishes come true! You’ll need a plain headband, yellow ribbon, glue, card, scissors, felt, markers, and other common crafting tools.
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19. Giraffe Wall Art
Your students will have great fun preparing this giant giraffe to decorate their rooms or classroom with their new friends. The materials required are also easily accessible; making this quite an easy activity to get started on spontaneously.
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20. Giraffe Pencil Holder
Help your learners create something fun, special, and unique for themselves or as a gift. The materials required to make this giraffe pencil holder include; the correct color cards, scissors, markers, glue, and old toilet rolls- all easy to access in most homes and classrooms.
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21. Giraffe Paper Toy
This activity is a carpet game your students are sure to enjoy. Using simple crafting materials, they can create a folded-neck giraffe to take home with them. All they’ll need to get going is a bunch of yellow cards, different color markers, scissors, and glue.
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22. Fingerprint Giraffe Craft
Fingerprint painting is a simple activity that can be done with just a few supplies and is also a great way to incorporate fine motor skills into an activity. Outside of your general crafting tools, such as scissors and glue sticks, you’ll only require colored paper.
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23. Giraffe Crown
Looking for a quick art and craft activity for one of your upcoming lessons? This activity may be a possible solution for you. Get started with your general art and craft items such as scissors and glue, as well as different colored cards.
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