Newspaper Animals
Newspaper Cat
Make a cat using newspaper or a piece of magazine paper
You will need:
Paper a magazine or newspaper, or you could use any kind of paper - even wrapping paper
Small piece of black and another color. You can use solid colors or other darker pieces from magazines or newspaper
Scissors
Glue
Black marker, crayon, or colored pencil
Here are the instructions below:
Use of a piece of newspaper or magazine.
Draw a bottom line with a black colored pencil, crayon, or marker
Two lines that go up on the sides slightly inward
Make a line on the top connecting them.
Cut out the body of your cat with scissors
Draw a wide U on another piece of newspaper or magazine
At the top of the U draw a line on each side that goes downward at an angle.
Draw a line for the head connecting the two ears
Cut out the head
Draw eyes by making frown and a smile that connect or make a football
Here are the pieces you need now: body, head, a small piece of colored paper for a collar, two eyes, a piece of black paper (you could choose a different color)
Draw two eyes - its like two frowns
Draw two lines coming down from the eyes and connect them
Draw a triangle on the bottom of the lines and color it in
Glue on your cut out eyes. You might have to redraw the line on the top of the eyes
Make two long eyeballs in the eyes
Draw his mouth with two lines curling out from the nose
Draw whiskers
Using the black sheet of paper, cut off a corner to make a triangle ear. You could also color this in with marker
Cut more triangles for stripes on the side of the body
Cut smaller triangles for his face
Glue them on
You can also draw them on
Check out this stop motion of the whole process below
This website has more animals out of newspaper and collage. Check them out especially if you are looking for a little more of a challenge