Crafts

Make your own pangolin companion

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Like real pangolins, Pipisin Pangolin stands on his hind legs. So I thought I’d try to make a little felt pangolin – this is the result. If you can have a go at making your own pangolin companion, I’ve drawn the pattern and written what I did.

Pangolins belong in the wild. They are sensitive souls and shouldn’t be kept in captivity or as pets. Only the wildlife organisations that rescue pangolins from the illegal wildlife trade and care for them until they can be released back into the wild have the specialist knowledge to be able to look after them. Find out about pangolin conservation by following organisations like Save Vietnam’s Wildlife, Rest Namibia and Libassa Wildlife Sanctuary.

Click on the image below for a printable pdf:

Visit my crafts page page for the original felt pangolin pattern and more pangolin crafts.

Felt pangolin

Book cover of It's Not My Fault
Buy my book: a pocket-sized companion for when you feel like a pangolin and want to roll up into a ball.

Pop-up pangolin card

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Make and send a pop-up pangolin card. The cute pangolin mom playing with her pangopup appears when you open the card.

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For a pdf template and instructions, click on this image:
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Use your card to help raise awareness of pangolins! Send it to a friend who might not know that pangolins even exist. Add some pangolin facts to the front and back of the card.

  • Pangolins are mammals with large overlapping scales covering their bodies.
  • The scales are made of keratin, just like our fingernails.
  • 20% of a pangolin’s weight is comprised of scales.
  • As a defense against predators, they roll up into a ball. Even lions and tigers can’t prise them open.
  • A pangolin’s tongue is longer than it’s body. The tongue is sticky and they use them to catch ants and termites.
  • A pangolin can eat 70 million ants per year.
  • There are eight species of pangolin: four in Asia and four in Africa.
  • Sadly, a pangolin is snatched from the wild every five minutes! They are the most most illegally traded wild mammals on the planet. They are poached for their meat, which is eaten as a luxury dish in parts of their range, and their scales which are used in Traditional Asian Medicine.

Find out more about pangolins and the actions being taken to help them on The IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group website

Click here for more pangolin crafts and colouring.

Make a pangolin bauble for your Christmas tree

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Add a Pangolin bauble to your Christmas tree to help raise awareness of these special animals.

Pangolin Christmas bauble

This bauble is has three layers: two outer decorated ones, and a third central one that helps provide the structure. All three slot into the square piece of card.

I used an old breakfast cereal box and scraps of wrapping paper for the scales.

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Pangolin Christmas bauble

Click on the image below to open a printable pdf, don’t forget to add an eye on each side.

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Other pangolin crafts for Christmas – pop-up card and easy pangolin baubles.

Pop-up pangolin Christmas card

Pangolin Christmas baubles

 

Find out more about Pipisin the Pangolin.

 

 

 

 

Happy Christmas from Pipisin the Pangolin

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Pipisin the Pangolin loves Christmas! Last year he made pangolin baubles to hang on your Christmas tree, this year he has his very own pop-up Christmas card.

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To make your own pop-up pangolin card – click on the picture and download the pdf template. Print it out, colour it in, cut along the solid lines of the pangolin and the plants, and fold the dashed lines. Fold in half and place inside a second piece of paper or card.

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Click on this picture for the template without any words:

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