How to Make Clay Pot Animals
Make a bunny or chick for Easter, or choose to decorate your clay pot like one of your other favourite animals. It's so easy!
Yield: 1 animal flower pot
Cost: $2
Equipment
Materials
- FREE Printable Clay Pot Animals Template
- Small clay pot(s)
- Acrylic paint (pink or other colour)
- Cardstock (grey and pink, or other colour)
- Glue tape
- Black marker (fine tipped)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Paint the flower pot
- Decide which farm animal you'd like to make and paint a clay pot the base colour. (Pink for the pig.)
- Paint just inside the rim of the pot as well.Allow it to dry (it dries quickly) then add a second coat of paint, if needed.
Step 3: Cut out the template pieces
- While the paint is drying, print the template (link in the materials list above).Cut out the template pieces for your animal.
- Trace the pig's hooves onto grey cardstock and cut them out.
- Trace the ears and snout onto pink cardstock and cut them out.
- Cut a small strip of pink cardstock that gets thinner on one end.Twirl the paper around a pencil or your pinky finger to create the pig's spiral tail.
Step 4: Add the details onto the clay pot
- Add glue tape to the bottom part of one of the pig's ears.If you have any pencil marks on the ears, add the tape to this side.
- Attach the ear to the inside lip of the pot. Repeat with the second ear.
- Use glue tape to attach the snout to the front center of the pot (opposite the ears).
- Add glue tape to the back part of the hooves. Attach them under the pot at the front so the hooves are sticking out.
- Attach the tail to the back of the pot so it points out on one side.
- Use a fine point marker to draw the pig's eyes and nostrils.
- Your clay pot animal is complete!
- Now have fun using one of the other templates to make a whole group of animal flower pots.
Video
Notes
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