Easy Crafts

• Create simple lizard crafts by printing lizard-coloring pages from the Internet or use lizard-themed coloring books for the children to color. Give the children markers and crayons to color the pictures. If you do not mind the mess, allow the children to color the lizard coloring pages with finger paint. Another idea is to print pictures of lizards and place them on the table. Children can use the pictures as guides to try to freehand a lizard on construction paper.
  
  

Felt Crafts

• Give the children green, light green and brown felt to make a lizard. The children can use a coloring page to trace a lizard pattern onto the felt and cut it out. Have them use googly eyes and fabric pens to decorate the felt lizard. Older children who can sew can create two of the felt lizards. They can sew them together and stuff with cotton balls to make a plush lizard. If they want to get more stuffing into the lizard, have them make one lizard slightly larger than the other one.
  
  

Clay Crafts

• Children can use clay to create a lizard. Give each child green or light green modeling clay and have him shape it to resemble a lizard. Encourage the children to try their best by awarding small prizes for the most realistic and most creative clay lizards. Alternatively, children can use self-hardening clay to create a keepsake lizard. After the lizard dries overnight, it should be hard and the children can keep it for many years. You can also hot glue a magnet to the back of it to create a refrigerator magnet.
  
  

Other Crafts

• Have the children cut the lizard out of their coloring pages. Place the lizard around their arm and tape into place to create a lizard bracelet.
  
  Give the children several crafts supplies to make their own lizard. They must use their imagination to create a lizard using the supplies you give them. Some supplies they can use include construction paper, craft foam, chenille stems, glue, tape, googly eyes, markers, crayons, paint pens and beads.
  
  Children can also use craft spoons to make a lizard by painting it green. They can add green chenille stems to create the legs and a red chenille stem to create the lizard's tongue.