Wacky Wednesday: ZSU ZSU Hamsters

Wacky Wednesday:

ZSU ZSU Hamsters

Crafts:

• Hamster Toilet Paper Roll Craft: Click Here
• Pom Pom Hamster: 2 large brown pom poms, very small black pom pom, 1 small brown pom pom, brown felt, gogglie eyes, glue, black thread, red yarn

1. Glue the 2 large pom poms together.  Let dry.
2. Glue the small brown pom pom on the back for their tail.
3. Make little whiskers with the black thread and glue onto face.  Then glue the very small pom pom over the whiskers for the nose.
4. Cut out little triangle ears out of the brown felt.  And fold the ears slightly and glue into place.
5. Glue a piece of red yarn onto the face to make a mouth.
6. If you want you can also glue on 4 small brown pom poms on the bottom of the hamster to make feet.

• Hamster Wheel: Craft sticks, hot glue, cardboard, construction paper, long brad, empty square tissue box, pipe cleaner

1. Draw a circle on a piece of cardboard.  The size you want the hamster wheel. I made mine about 6 inches.
2. Then insert sticks into the circle.  I spaced mine about an inch apart.
3. Then take smaller sticks and attach them to the bigger sticks connecting them together.  I made two rows of them.  Let Glue Dry!
4. Then cut out the circle just a little bit by the sticks.
5. Then attach the wheel onto the box with a brad through the middle of the wheel to box.  Should be able to move wheel.  If the wheel is too heavy and falling over, add weight to the box.
6. Can add pipe cleaners around wheel to make it pretty.
7. Could also add felt to the inside of wheel, so nothing falls through the holes if you want.

• Hamster Maze: Cardboard Box Lid or cardboard, Bendable straws, glue, marble, hole puncher

1. Cut pieces of bendable straws up and glue them onto the cardboard to make the maze.  You can make the maze anyway you want.  You can draw the maze onto the cardboard first if you want with lines so that you know what it will look like.  If you want, you can place the straws down before you glue to see what it look likes.  
2. Make sure you punch a hole at the end of the maze for the marble to fall into.

• Hamster Face Paper Plate:  Dinner plate, Brown paint, cotton balls, Scissors, black yarn, Large black pom pom, brown construction paper, glue, hole puncher

1. Paint the plate brown.  Let dry. Cut out eye holes.
2. Stretch out the cotton balls and glue them onto the plate. Paint the cotton balls with brown.
3. Glue large black pom pom onto plate for the nose.
4. Cut out 2 triangles for the ears, bend them just a little and glue them in place or staple them on plate.
5. Glue a piece of yarn onto plate for the mouth.
6. Punch holes on each side of plate.  Thread yarn through each hole and tie off, use this for holding on of the mask.

• Hamster Magnet: Cardboard(thin), Picture of Zsu Zsu pet, glue, puff paint, magnet

1. Cut a circle out of cardboard.  
2. Glue a picture of the ZSU ZSU pet onto the cardboard.
3. Place puff paint around the cardboard and picture.  
4. Glue a magnet onto the back of the picture and put on fridge.

• Hamster Bed: Fabric, Scissors

1. Figure out how big you want your bed.  Then make sure you have extra fabric all the way around the bed.  You will need two pieces of the same size.
2. Your child will be tying the bed together.
3. Make sure the two pieces are lined up perfectly.  Start cutting slits all the way around, except for the top part. 
4. Then tie the slits together.  
5. Their hamster now has a little bed they can crawl into.

• Hamster Wheel Art: Cardboard, pencil, plastic needle, yarn, pom pom hamster

1. Draw a hamster wheel onto a piece of cardboard. Make little dark dots on the wheel.  This is where your child will put the needle into.
2. Then thread the needle with yarn and have your child sew their wheel.
3. Make a pom pom hamster, from up above.  Glue the hamster onto the wheel.

• Hamster Egg Cup: Cardboard egg carton, brown felt, brown pom pom, black pom pom, glue, brown pipe cleaner, black string, brown paint, gogglie eyes, red marker

1. Cut out two egg sections.  Glue the two openings together.
2. Paint them brown.
3. Glue on eyes.  
4. Cut little whisker out of black string and glue them onto face.  Then glue the black pom pom in the middle of the whiskers.
5. Cut out two triangle felt ears.  Bend them a little and glue them onto head.
6. Draw on a mouth with red marker.
7. Cut pipe cleaners for the arms and legs, add a little glue to one end and push them into the egg carton.
8. Cut out little feet and hands out of felt and glue them to the end of the pipe cleaners.

• Hamster Wheel Fun: Cardboard, pipecleaners, construction paper, marker, straw, brad

1. Make a circle with a pipe cleaner.
2. Then make a larger circle with a pipe cleaner. 
3. Attach the circles together with pipe cleaners. 
4. Then attach pipe cleaners that are connecting the circles together, with smaller pipe cleaners.  
5. Bend the pipe cleaners to form a wheel.
6. You can glue the wheel onto a piece of cardboard with glue or pipe cleaners through the cardboard.
7. Then cut the small circle out.  
8. Attach a picture of a hamster to the end of a  pipe cleaner by making a small circle at the end of the pipe cleaner and attaching the hamster with a brad.  Then slide the pipe cleaner into a straw.  Then secure the end by twisting the pipe cleaner a little.  The straw makes it easier to spin it.
9. Your child can put the pipe cleaner through the hole.  Bend the pipe cleaner so it looks like the hamster is running around the wheel.  

• Hamster Home: Butter Tub, Scissors, Paint, Cardboard, Cotton Balls, Glue

1. Place the tub faced down onto the cardboard piece. Trace around the tub.  Cut out circle and set aside.
2. Cut out a hole in the tub big enough for the entrance of the hamster.  Paint the tub.  Can also glue pieces of construction paper all over the tub.
3. Glue pieces of cotton ball,s(stretched or left alone), onto the round piece of cardboard.
4. Glue the tub onto the cardboard piece.  
5. Their home is now complete.

Activities:

• Hot Potato Zsu Zsu Game: Play game like hot potato.
• Hamster Tossing Game: Stuffed hamsters, Shoebox, marker.

1. Decorate the shoebox (hamster's home)
2. Cut out a circle out of the lid of the box.  The circle should be a bigger than the hamster.
3. One person has the hamsters, the other person has the shoebox.  The person holding the hamsters throws the hamsters toward their  home.   The person holding the hamster's home must try to get the hamster into the hole in the box.
4. You can keep score if you want.  The one with the most hamsters in their homes wins.

• Pin The Hamster On The Wheel: Poster Board, Marker, Tape, Couple Pictures of ZSU ZSU Pets, Blindfold

1. Draw a wheel onto the piece of poster board.  Make a mark (like a heart) on the wheel, this is where they must put the hamster on.
2. Blindfold your child.  Place a piece of tape on the back of the picture and had it to them.
3. See if your child can place the hamster onto the mark.  The person closest to the mark wins.

• Hamster Tube Game: Paper towel tubes, tape, construction paper, cotton balls or pom pom hamsters

1.   Cover tubes with construction paper, secure with tape.
2. Each team member gets a tube.  Everyone lines up in front of their team leader.  The team leader puts a cotton ball in the tub at the start of "Go!"  Then the next person in line must try to get the hamster into their tube without dropping it, then the next in line tries to catch the hamster, this goes on until the last person.  The first team to get the hamster to the end without dropping it wins. If the hamster falls to the floor, the team must start all over again.

• Hamster Hunt

1. Hide the hamster somewhere in the house.  Let your child to find it.  You can provide a map if you want.

• Hamster Coloring Pages: Click Here
• Hamster Printable Birth Certificate and Record Page:  Click Here
• Hamster Coloring Page:  Click Here
• Play-Doh

1. Make hamsters and their homes and play things.

• White Copy Paper, Crayons

1. Have your child draw their very own hamster with all their toys.
2. You and your child can also write a story about their hamster and a trip they went on.  For example: The Zoo, Park, Winter Olympics, Skiing, Movies, Boat Trip, where ever they wish.  Then have them draw pictures to go with their story.

Food/Snacks:

Things that hamsters eat!

• Carrots
• Celery
• Salad(they love lettuce)
• Broccoli
• Yogurt
• Seeds/Nuts
• Cereal
• Bread
• Peanut Butter(they don't peanut butter, but they love nuts)

Wacky Wednesday: ZSU ZSU Hamsters