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Gruffalo Props from Recyclables

April 11, 2016 by Nadia van Zyl 2 Comments

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Make these adorable gruffalo props from recyclables to go with the storybook The Gruffalo!

gruffalo props

The story of The Gruffalo is a popular one because it is just so adorable! (Buy the book HERE.) Plus, it uses rhyming and alliteration which makes it interesting to read too! You might find our Gruffalo Story Pack useful too!

In this project, I wanted to use recyclables to fit with our theme this month of recycling, upcycling, repurposing etc. in support of Earth Day. I grabbed some cardboard rolls, a box and markers. 

recyclables needed  

First, I made the animals by bending and cutting the rolls as shown below. Then I used a marker to draw the features of each character. I am not the most arty person, but this is really not difficult at all. I kept the book next to me and used it as reference.

cutting and drawing

 One could leave the characters like this, but I wanted some colour so I used the colour markers to colour or paint it.  The box I left blank for the kids to decorate. You can of course let your kids colour the characters too(I didn’t trust mine with it though, but if they want to make their own, they could)! 

coloured props

My son was keen on colouring the box!

  
To extend: add real leaves, rocks, wood chips etc. to the box and play like with it as a woodlands small world!  

A fun craft and story props to go along with the popular The Gruffalo story!

gruffalo story props

Check out these fun Family Spoon Puppets and Farm Animal Puppets!

Do see this The Gruffalo Story Activity Pack!

Gruffalo Pack

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Comments

  1. Emma says

    May 10, 2016 at 7:32 am

    We love this story – how much fun it will be to act it out with props!

  2. Julie says

    April 11, 2016 at 11:50 am

    I LOVE story props! They really bring the story alive!! What a wonderful set of recycled characters!

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