Paper craft for kids · Ages 4–9 · 30 min
Paper Plate Lion Mask Craft for Kids
Turn a paper plate into a lion mask with a paper mane and a stick handle — a 30-minute craft for kids that is perfect for a story or a school play.
What your paper plate lion mask can look like
Materials
- 1 paper plate
- Yellow, orange and brown crayons or paints
- Orange and brown paper strips (or wool) for the mane
- 1 ice-cream stick
- Glue and sticky tape
Tools
- Child-safe scissors
- Pencil
- An adult to start the eye holes
Steps
- Hold the plate in front of your face and ask an adult to mark where your eyes are.
- Ask an adult to start the eye holes; then cut them a little bigger with child-safe scissors.
- Colour the face yellow and draw a nose, mouth and whisker dots.
- Cut paper strips about 8 cm long and curl some around a pencil.
- Glue the strips all around the edge of the plate to make a big, fluffy mane.
- Tape the ice-cream stick to the bottom of the plate as a handle.
- Let the glue dry, then roar!
⚠️ Safety noteHold the mask with the stick instead of tying elastic around the head, make the eye holes big enough to see well, and never run while wearing it.
Learn while you craft
- Faces are symmetrical — the left side matches the right.
- Circles and triangles make the face and nose.
- Talk about the Asiatic lion, which lives only in Gir forest, Gujarat.
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