Many recycling centers do not accept the type of plastic that yogurt cups are made from so many crafty greenies are always looking for something creative to do with the yogurt containers. How about turning some into penguins?
Small yogurt cups and smoothie bottles can easily become cute penguins. Just paint the bottles and cups with black spray paint for plastic, let that dry and then paint the white bodies with a brush and acrylic paint. Craft foam can be used to make the wings, feet and beaks, black for the wings, yellow for the beaks and feet then glue them on with a hot glue gun (tacky craft glue would also work).
They are absolutely adorable and basically pretty easy to make (younger children may need help, adults could spray paint the bottles and cups and let them do the rest). They also have the possibility of being customized to an individual’s taste and available supplies. They can even be customized for holdais and events. For Christmas you could add candycanes or Santa hats, for winter add stocking hats and scarves, for Valentine's Day you could add hearts.
Supplies Needed:
- Small yogurt cups and/or smoothie bottles (for this project Yoplait Fiber One cups and Dannon DanActive smoothie bottles were used)
- Black spray paint for plastic
- White acrylic paint
- Black acrylic paint or fine tipped black permanent marker
- Paintbrushes
- Yellow (or orange) craft foam for feet and beaks
- Black craft foam for wings
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks (or fast drying craft glue)
- Scissors
- Pen
- White pencil
- Newspaper, or other table cover
Directions:
- First find some yogurt cups and/or smoothie bottles, remove any labels (on the bottles) and clean them thoroughly and let dry
- Take the bottles and/or cups outside and turn upside down on newspaper, spray paint with black spray paint made for plastic. Let that dry. Repeat.
- Once the yogurt containers are dry, draw on the body design with a pen or pencil, a white pencil works well. Then you can easily paint over it with white paint.
- Paint the white body onto the yogurt container. It may take a couple of coats of paint to get a good solid white body.
- While you are waiting for your white paint to dry, cut your feet and beaks out from the yellow (or orange) craft foam. Trace feet and beak designs onto foam with a pen or marker then cut out.
- Trace wing pattern onto black craft foam and cut out.
- Once the paint is dry you can glue the feet, beak and wings on.
- Now you can take a fine tip black marker or dip a fine tip paintbrush into a little bit of black paint and dab on two little dots for the penguins eyes.
Now you have cute penguins on parade.
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