| If you are looking for an inexpensive craft project to | | | | We selected the following animals: frog, pig, monkey, |
| make with children, you will want to try out this craft | | | | cow, puppy and a lamb). |
| idea. Within a matter of 20 minutes, you can make | | | | For the purpose of this project, I will refer to the cow |
| several foam refrigerator magnets. | | | | refrigerator magnet that we made. |
| Appropiate Age Group: 4 and up | | | | Select a sheet of foam to match the color of your |
| Here is what you will need: | | | | animal, in this case, a white piece of foam. Trace |
| Coloring books (featuring simple designs such as | | | | around the pattern by placing the reverse side of the |
| flowers, animals, cartoon characters, etc) | | | | pattern down onto the foam sheet. Once you have it |
| Child Safety Scissors | | | | traced, use the scissors to cut the shape out by |
| All Purpose White Tacky Glue | | | | cutting on your traced line. |
| Wiggle Eyes | | | | We then took a scrap piece of peach colored foam |
| Beads, Buttons, Sequins, Feathers and other | | | | and made a nose for our cow and glued it into place. |
| miscellaneous crafting trinkets | | | | Above the nose, glue on 2 wiggle eyes. Take the |
| Foam Sheets (buy 1 of each different color to match | | | | black fine tip Sharpie marker and draw black 'cow' |
| your designs) | | | | spots on the cows body and head. We also used the |
| Magnets | | | | marker to color in the cows tail and hooves. To finish |
| Fine Tip Black Sharpie Marker | | | | off your cow, glue a 2" piece of magnet onto the back |
| For the project that I made with my nephews, we | | | | and let dry. |
| selected a coloring book that had animal pictures in it | | | | Try to be creative when adding accents to your |
| for preschool aged children. You will want to cut out | | | | magnets, you can use feathers, beads, buttons, |
| the pattern by cutting close (but not on) the outline | | | | sequins, charms, ribbons and other left-over small |
| shape. | | | | trinkets from other craft projects. |