April the Giraffe and Giraffe Craft Projects for Kids
For the past 3 1/2 weeks we’ve been watching the April the Giraffe live cam on YouTube waiting for the beautiful giraffe to give birth to her 4th baby. If you haven’t heard the buzz, April is a 15 year old Giraffe who’s expecting a baby (any day now) with her partner Oliver who is 5 year’s old. The couple resides at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville New York.
Over the past few weeks I’ve enjoyed watching the Live Cam with my 7 1/2 year old granddaughter. We’ve been learning a lot about giraffes by attending the evening chat and by doing our own research online. In addition to learning about giraffes, we’ve been working on various arts & crafts projects too.
You can learn more about April the Giraffe and get all of the official links to the live cam, souvenir & gift store and get more info on Animal Adventure Park by visiting the official April the Giraffe website.
Here are several FREE printable giraffe coloring pages:
ColoringWS – Numerous free coloring pages
Best Coloring Pages for Kids – several free printable pages
Coloring Pages for Kids – Cute pages!
Paint the World Super Coloring
Looking to get crafty? Check out all of these FREE giraffe craft projects that the kids can make!
Folded Paper Giraffe – Inexpensive Paper Project
Brown Paper Lunch Bag Giraffes – These would make cute paper puppets
Giraffe Sock Puppets – Super Cute!
Clothespin Giraffes – Great way to use up wooden clothespins!
Paper Plate Giraffe Craft – Another cute idea!
Printable Paper-Piecing Giraffe Craft – Love this idea!
Cardboard Giraffe Craft – Cute and inexpensive project!
Giraffe Handprint Painting – Nice project for preschoolers!
Cardboard Tube Giraffe – Frugal craft idea!
Play-doh and Modeling Clay – Give the kids some of their favorite-type of dough and let them sculpt their own giraffes!
Check out this adult coloring page that I colored that features two adult giraffes and a baby. The page is from the “How to Color Like an Artist” book that I featured right here on the blog. The book focuses on how to use colored pencils, but I personally colored in my page using glitter gel ink pens. I love, love, love that particular page and it totally reminds me of April, Oliver and the new baby!
If I find any more cool giraffe craft projects and/or coloring pages online, I’ll update this page as we go along.
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