Enhance your lessons on the Inuit or Eskimo tribes of North America using a simple Wooden Spoon Eskimo & an Igloo Craft. 

It can be difficult to keep the kids occupied during the winter, especially during the holidays when they’re home from school and excited by the festive atmosphere. From snowman, penguins to winter paper collages, all these things provide a perfect way to celebrate this cold time of year.  When I saw that the December challenge was to craft with spoons, we decided to make our very own

Wooden Spoon Eskimo Craft

The Inuit or Eskimo tribes lived in the cold arctic weather and are very resourceful with their surroundings. This project is great for children of all ages to craft an Eskimo &  Igloo for a geography or weather unit.

Materials used:

1. Wooden Spoon
2. Brown felt foam
3. White felt
4. Markers – black, blue & pink
5. Yellow paper for the fish
6. A small stick for the fishing pole
7. White pompoms – 2 medium pompoms for the gloves and 2 small pompoms for the ears.
8. Glue stick
9. Scissors
10. Blue papers for the scenery
11. White cardstock for the mountains & Igloo
12. Cotton

How to make your own Wooden Spoon Eskimo:

Some Inuits still dress in fur parkas that hang down to their knees and sealskin boots called kamiks or mukluks.

Start by cutting out a long Parka from the brown felt foam. Use the Wooden Spoon as a reference. Stick two large pom poms at the sleeve ends to form gloves.

Embellish by cutting out buttons & a fur lining from some white felt and glue them onto the coat.  Now for the sealskin boots called kamiks or mukluks, cut out J-shaped boots and add a white felt lining.

Measure and cut a circular hood out of white felt and stick two small pom poms on the sides as shown

Put them all together. Using a strong glue, paste the parka, followed by the shoes and finally the hood.

Use markers to draw a face,  some hair and rosy cheeks.

Cut out mountains, igloo & some colorful fishes of  cardstock papers and setup your scene.

Paste a fish to the top of the pole and your Eskimo craft is ready.

KIDS CRAFT STARS MONTHLY CHALLENGE

Have you made a fun craft with a cup lately? We want to see! You can share pictures to Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and tag your photos with the hashtag #kidscraftstars. I will be sharing a few of my favorites every month. I hope you will join us throughout the year with all of our craft challenges. You can see our monthly schedule and materials below.

Check out these other spoon crafts from the kids craft stars! You can keep up with all of our latest crafts by following our Pinterest Board or following our hashtag #kidscraftstars on Instagram.

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