How to make a stuffed animal By Claire

How to make a stuffed animal!

Materials:

2 Sheets of A3 Paper                                    Scrap paper

Paint                                                             Shredded paper                                                     Scissors                                                        Stapler                                                       

A LOT of staples!

Instructions:

1.     Get your scrap piece of paper and sketch your animal. Keep practising until you think it’s the best it can be

2.     Once you are completely happy with your work, get one of your good pieces of A3 paper and draw your animal on to it

3.     Cut your animal out

4.    Trace around your animal onto the second piece of paper

5.     Cut the second animal out

6.     Paint both pieces of paper one colour all over. This is your base colour

7.     Let them dry then add any features you want your animal to have

8.     Once it is dry, staple the two pieces of paper together along the bottom of the animal

9.     Get your shredded paper and stuff as much as you can into your animal

10.   Staple up the rest of your animal

11.   Now you are done!  

By Claire

Ocean Pals By Karen L

Our inquiry project right now is Oceans. I made a seal. We made these amazing pals by doing these steps.
You will need:
Shredded paper
Paint
2x A3 paper
Stapler and staples
How to make a Ocean Pal:
1.Choose an animal
2.Draw it out on an A3 piece of paper
3.Cut out your animal
4.Trace your animal on another piece of A3 paper
5.Paint your animals
6.Staple part of your animals together and leave a medium sized space
7.Stuff your animal with shredded paper
8.Staple the parts that you haven't stapled
Now you have the perfect Ocean Pal!

Stuffed Squid by Thomas

Claire was holding my 3D squid. I hope you like it?

Kiwiana Stamp by Gina

Room 5 made Kiwiana stamps. We had to find things that show New Zealand culture.

Axolotls by Alex

Axolotls are an endangered species, found in Mexico. Mexicans eat axolotls as a big treat. Axolotls were once at the top of the food chain in their habitat. Then bigger species were introduced into their habitat. Axolotls are exclusively found in the lakes of Xochimilco.  Axolotl means Mexican Walking Fish  

Diet

Axolotls are carnivores. Axolotls eat worms, insects, small fish and anything it can fit in its mouth. Axolotls have special teeth for good grip and axolotls eat their food whole. If the food is too big for the Axolotl to eat, it will give up. Some fish that axolotls eat have diseases and if the axolotl eats it the axolotl will get the disease. Axolotls will eat dead or alive food. Axolotls will even eat small dead Axolotl body pieces!         

Physical Features

Axolotl are born with a dorsal fin and gills, which they keep for their whole life. The dorsal fin runs almost the length of its body.  It is unusual for amphibian to keep their dorsal fins and their feathery gills. When Axolotls are born they look a bit like tadpoles. Axolotls mate between 5 months and several years.

Appearance

There are lots of colours for Axolotls. They can be pinky white, dark blue with spots of black, purply blue, dark green with spots of light green and lots more. Axolotls have gills on their head. Sometimes Axolotls appear to smile.

Axolotls are amazing creatures and one of the most unusual amphibians in the world.

By Alex-David 

Dolphins

Dolphins are sea mammals. Almost all live in shallow tropical areas. Five types live in rivers. Some species of dolphins are endangered. There are up to 40 dolphins species are alive today.

Diet

Dolphins eat a variety of prey. Dolphins eat fish, squid and other types of sea animals. How much a dolphin eats depends on the size of its prey. Dolphins use different strategies to catch prey. They use methods like herding fish. Some strike fish with their tails (it is called whacking).

Behavior

Dolphins are very playful. Many species will leap out of the water to look at their surroundings. Dolphins sometimes follow ships in packs.

Habitat

Most Dolphins live in shallow tropical waters. Five types live in rivers. River dolphins are called platanistidae and ocean dolphins are called delphinidae. Dolphins live in every ocean, although mostly in warm waters.

Features

Dolphins have little hairs around their jaw when they are a calf (newborn). As they get older, they fall off. Dolphins are part of the cetacean family. Most dolphins have long, light bodies that are made for fast swimming and high jumps out of the water.

Facts:

There are around 35 to 40 types of dolphins that are known, though several species are known to be endangered.

Dolphins live in groups from five to several hundred.

Dolphins swim up to a hundred miles a day.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Dolphins have been known to dive down to depths of 1,700 feet.

Dolphins can swim between 20 to 25 miles per hour.

By Georgia

  

 

Room 5 has been creating 3D sea animals. I made a shark. We painted on a shape of an animal and then waited till it dried and then we stuffed it with ripped paper.

By Joe