How to make Antarctic Animals

Antarctic Animals

Antarctica is an ice-covered continent that covers the southernmost part of the world. The South Pole is located in Antarctica. Antarctica is surrounded by the Southern Ocean and has an abundance of animal life, like Whales, Penguins and Albatross.

Watch the video below or follow the step by step instructions and discover how to create an Antarctic Animal!

Learn how to create your own Antarctic Animal

You will need:

- Empty cereal box

- Scissors

- Felt-tips or something else to colour in with

- Glue

-Toilet roll tube

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Make a penguin - Step One

Make a soft fold in a loo roll and snip upwards to make a beak.

Step Two

Make two longer snips on either side to make the penguin's wings.

Step Three

Colour in your penguin! Mine is an Emperor Penguin, so it has yellow and orange markings as well as the usual black and white.

Make an Albatross: an extraordinarily large sea-bird - Step One

Make a beak snip like the penguin but the other way around.

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Step Two

Fold a piece of card in half and draw on this shape.

Step Three

Cut out the shape and glue the curved end together with pritt stick.

Step Four

Slot the beak into the upside down V.

On the cereal box, draw out a shape like this and then cut it out.

Step Five

Make two cuts down either side of the loo roll.

Step Six

Slot in the wings.

Step Seven

Colour in your Albatross and imagine it flying!

Make an Orca - Step One

Draw these shapes on to some card and cut them out.

Step Two

Mark these lines on your loo roll and then cut along them.

Slot in your fins, and tail.

Step Three

Draw on your Orca markings.

Step Four

Colour in the distinct pattern on your Orca.

Congratulations!

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Here are all your Antarctic animals ready to play!

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