[manualidad en español]

Print out this simple ark template and let the kids decorate it as they choose.

Materials:

• printer
• paper
• crayons
• glue
• scissors
• blue construction paper
• cotton balls
• tooth brush
• blue or grey (rain colored) tempra paint thinned (with 3 parts paint and one part water).
• OPTIONAL:    tissue paper

Instructions:

• Print the ark and paint or color it as desired.
• Tape two pieces of blue construction paper together so you get one large piece.
• Make it rain:
  • Dip toothbrush into blue paint.
  • run your fingernail (or a popsicle stick) across the toothbrush (over top of the construction paper) to make a splatter rain effect
  • let dry.
• Cut out the ark (may require adult's help, but it's a fairly easy shape for preschoolers to cut out).
• Glue the ark to the large piece of construction paper.
• Add cotton ball clouds.
• OPTIONAL:    glue on scrunched up pieces of white and/or blue tissue paper as waves.
• Glue animal crackers onto the ark (2 by 2!)
  OR  
• instead of animal crackers you can also use animal images clipped out of magazines

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template    (color)   or   (B&W)

Printable version of these instructions