Cricut and learning tools for Pre-schoolers 1/100: DIY jumping Animals!

Teaching tools are the best! Especially if you're a pre-school teacher or a mom to a preschooler i cannot stress enough how much certain Diys mean. Because kids are active human beings with an insatiable curiousity running in their blood! They just can't get enough of things to play with, to learn! And as the caretaker the responsibility of feeding this curiosity falls upon it is necessary to be in constant search of things to provide this stimulating environment where the child can thrive. Because this learning will mould the kids. 

As a cricut enthusiast i find ways to include my cricut in almost anything and everything that i can do. This means i find a way to use my cricut even in the simplest of projects. Why? Because the project becomes even simpler and even gives the work a much more finished look. As a medium perfectionist, this is important to me. 

Coming back to the topic at hand, here's a super simple project that you can do for your kids. If you have a cricut, follow along. If you don't have a cricut, this should inspire you because the possibilities of a cricut machine is absolutely never ending! So here's a cricut project for you that's keep your kids occupied for a while. 

Materials Required:

White cardstock

Colour Cardstocks (if you don't want to print and cut)

Cricut maker/cricut explore/cricut joy (without print and cut)

Standard mat

Glue

I found it this project here on Instagram. As soon as saw it i wanted to make it with my Cricut. Why involve a cricut? Sometimes if you don't feel like drawing or if you think that cutting is too much for you, cricut just takes away all this work for you. So I'm going to go for print then cut. But you can simply choose the cut part too. Anything will work.

Down below is the template that i designed for my project. You can use it as a reference to make yours. I made it with the help of canva. Once you go through the process you'll be able to design yours pretty quickly.

All you need to do is upload it to design space and give print then cut. Its easy peacy.

Take the long rectangular strips and fold them like in the picture above.

And here.

Until you get this accordion kind of structure that is springy. Glue the top and bottom so that it doesn't break it's structure.

If you chose the cut project, you'll need to draw the faces.

In the video the person cut out the ears seperately but i just used a design that already had the ears. So this part wasn't even necessary for me.

This above is the most important part of all. Otherwise the face is just lying flat and there is no joy on the structure. make a small triangular piece, kind of like a ramp with a bit of space on it for the head to be able to rest.

And stick the face on it. 

Damn! That was easy. 

Here are a few more animals that I've designed on canva.

The hoof wasn't available anywhere so i designed it from scratch on my own. But hey. I think it's fine. Now I'm going to get these uploaded on my cricut design space and get the work done!

Woohoo! Having a cricut is so much fun!

Super Tip:

Suppose you're kindergarten teacher looking for a quick project for your kids, just get a mini bulk of these cutouts. Let the kids choose whichever heads, legs, arms and tails they want. Now that's going to be quite a unique project.

Now if you're looking for more projects or details about the cricut machines

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