Winter Games Crafts

The Olympic torch is quickly making its way to Vancouver now, and we’ll soon be watching our country go for gold! Do some sports or
medal crafts with the kids, or be inspired by the Olympic logos and mascots. Here are some ideas to get you started:

Mascot Puppet:

Go to the Olympic website to find out which mascot is most like you, and then make your favourite one! We recreated our favourite
sasquatch with an easy paper bag project:

Supplies: 2 brown paper bags, cream paper, white paper, blue felt, scissors, glue, crayon or marker

Cut the bottom of the paper bag off, zig zagging your cuts to resemble tufts of hair
Use the scrap from the bottom to make a jagged tuft of hair. Glue onto top of bag
Cut a heart shaped face from cream paper. Glue onto top of bag. Use marker or crayon to make face
Cut arms from 2nd paper bag and glue onto your puppet. Make hands out of cream paper and glue onto arms
Cut ear muffs from blue felt. Cut ear muff band from white paper. Glue into place

Inukshuk Paintings

Thanks to Melanie for her craft ideas and photos! Her family did Inukshuks two ways – with black paper and with handprints.

Handprint Inukshuk

Supplies: white paper, tempura paint (red, yellow, green, light and dark blue), red construction paper, marker.

Dip the sides of your fists into red and yellow paint to and stamp the legs of the Inukshuk.
Wash and then repeat with light blue (body), dark blue (arms – stretch out hand and use the side of
whole hand), fist for the green head.
Dry, cut out, paste onto red construction paper, print 2010 on the top, and GO CANADA on the bottom.

Sunset Inukshuk

Supplies: white paper, tempura paint (red, yellow, orange, green, blue), pastels (optional), black construction
paper, scissors.

Draw wavy lines using coloured pastels or crayons across white paper about 3-4cm apart.
Fill in white spaces using tempura paints (use blue greens on the bottom half, and red/yellow/oranges
on the top half) let dry
Using black paper and scissors, cut out 5 shapes to form your own inukshuk. It can have 2 legs,
a body, head, and a long piece for the arms, or try some other combination of stacking
Glue onto coloured background

Recommended Reading

Thanks to Portia from Once Upon A Huckleberry Bush for her Olympic reading recommendations!

Outstanding Olympics

By Clive Gifford

The Olympic Games is the greatest sports celebration in the world. This colorful book offers
all the information you need about the world’s top athletes, their amazing achievements and
the rivalries and competition among nations. The perfect companion to our own hosting of
the games – and way beyond!

Miga, Quatchi and/et Sumi

This is the lovable story of the mascots Miga, Quatchi, Sumi and their sidekick Mukmuk unfolds on the
magical landscape of Canada’s West Coast.

Written in both English and French, learn the legends behind these now famous characters as they introduce
the world to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.