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<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe Winter Cardinal Craft is a great addition to the winter crafts<\/a> and cookie cutter painting<\/a> on the site.<\/p>\n A fun winter painting craft you can make with kids. It has a cardinal in a birch tree in winter. You use watercolors, paints, and a cookie cutter for this craft.<\/p>\n You will find all the items we used and steps below.<\/p>\n We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a small commission<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n No Two Alike<\/a> is a great winter book by Keith Baker. It has a fun look at winter and what it is like and how now two trees, roads or birds are the same.<\/p>\n You can see all the steps below that we used to make the winter cardinal craft.<\/p>\n You start by painting the background. We used blue and purple watercolors. This mix gives the background a great color.<\/p>\n And remember if one is light and another is dark for the background that is all okay.<\/p>\n The next step is painting the birch tree that the cardinal will be sitting in.<\/p>\n You can draw lines for where tree truck is on the white cardstock. If you have older kids, let them decide where they want to paint and how big the tree should be.<\/p>\n You want to use the brush and paint horizontal lines on the tree truck to make it look like a bark of a birch tree.<\/p>\n You will paint the branch similar to the truck of the tree. You are going to do black lines across to paper.<\/p>\n You can draw for them where they will paint or have older kids do their own lines and painting.<\/p>\n Next you want to cut out the trunk of the tree. And remember no tree is straight and if there are a little curves that is totally fine.<\/p>\n You repeat like the tree trunk and cut out the branch of tree. You have a small skinny branch for the cardinal.<\/p>\n Okay next you glue on the branch. You want it somewhere in the middle or lower part of the paper. <\/p>\n And it will only go about 3\/4 of the way across the paper.<\/p>\n You can then cut the extra off the tree at the end if the watercolor paper.<\/p>\n Next you glue the tree onto the paper. You can use a glue stick or glue. Which every you have will be fine.<\/p>\n Then you want to cut off the extra of the tree at the bottom.<\/p>\n The final step is to paint the cardinal on the picture. You a cardinal cookie cutter and then paint inside with a q-tip.<\/p>\n You use a bright red paint for the painting.<\/p>\n You hold on to the top or sides of the cookie cutter as you paint.<\/p>\n You might also like this cardinal handprint craft<\/a>. You could also use it in place the cookie cutter.<\/p>\n Animals in Winter Sensory Bin<\/a> has different animals you can see in winter with a fun kinetic sand base.<\/p>\n Animal Weekly No-Prep Packs<\/a> has weekly packs with a snowman theme. They have PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade. You will find 4 pages of printables for each with. They are great for extra practice homework, and morning work. They have a mix of math and language activities. <\/p>\n Animals In Winter Activity Pack<\/a> has prewriting, shapes, ABCs, and numbers with clip cards, easy reader books, no-prep pages, and tracing strips for preschool, prek and kindergarten age kids.<\/p>\n Animals in Winter Number Counting Mats<\/a> has four different counting mats for kids to use with a mix of ten frames and counting mats.<\/p>\n Animals in Winter Packs<\/a> has two sets of packs a Preschool and to that has 130 pages and a PreK Kindergarten Pack that has 145 pages! Both are loaded with activities for ABCs, numbers, shapes, counting. Plus there is a mix of no-prep and hands-on activities in both sets.<\/p>\n Check out all the fun Winter & Snow Activities & Printables <\/a> on 3 Dinosaurs.<\/p>\nWinter Cardinal Painting Craft<\/h2>\n
Book to Read with the Cardinal Craft<\/h2>\n
What we used to make the Winter Cardinal Craft<\/h2>\n
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<\/div>\nHow we made the Winter Cardinal Craft<\/h2>\n
Step 1: Paint the Background Blue and Purple<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\nStep 2: Paint the Trunk of the Tree<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\nStep 3: Paint the Branch of the Tree<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\nStep 3: Cut out the Branch of the Tree<\/h4>\n
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<\/div>\nStep 4: Glue the Branch on the Paper<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\nStep 5: Glue the Tree on the Paper<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\nStep 5: Paint the Cardinal on the Tree Branch<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\nFinal look at our Winter Cardinal Craft<\/h2>\n
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<\/div>\nMore Animals in Winter Activities & Printables<\/h2>\n
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