Chinese New Year is just around the corner and it will be the year of the Rat. We’ve therefore decided on a lovely children’s craft to create a paper rat.

What’s great is it’s nice and simple and requires very little resources. *

What do you need?

• Grey paper (or colour some white paper in grey with a pencil like us!)
• Scissors
• Glue
• Googly eyes
• Pipe cleaners
• Pink tissue paper (or just paper)
• Ribbon/pipe cleaner for the rail
• Sellotape

How do you make it?

• If you’ve not got grey paper, colour some paper in using a pencil.

• Cut the A4 grey paper in half

• Roll into a cone

• Cut pipe cleaners into short lengths and sellotape together at the nose of the rat

• Stick a pom pom on the end of the nose

• Add googly eyes

• Cut out triangles of pink paper or tissue paper and stick on for ears
• Sellotape ribbon/pipe cleaner on for the tail.

What can children learn from this activity?

• Develop their understanding of Chinese New Year by acting as a prompt for discussion with adults.
• Practise scissor skills
• Develop creativity

*As with all activities on our site, we take no responsibility for their safety. It is your responsibility to risk assess activities based on the children or adults in your care.