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Duck Tape Brazilian Samba Dancer Craft

This easy Samba dancer craft was inspired by the World Cup.  Download the free printables and have a go yourself!
We made these Brazilian Samba dancers for the World Cup using Duck Tape leftover from our paper chain football supporters craft, but you could just as easily use washi tape if you have it.

Brazilian Samba Dancer Craft

To make this Brazilian samba dancer craft, you will need:

  • A large (A3 is ideal) piece of sugar or craft paper
  • An A4 piece of paper in whatever flesh tone you decide to make your Samba dancer
  • A printer
  • These free printables: dress up kit, body outline & placement guide (which can also be used as a colouring sheet for younger children)
  • Duck or washi tape in your chosen colours (we used the flag colours for England, Uruguay, Italy & Costa Rica)
  • Waxed paper (to make stickers from your tape)
  • Tracing paper (optional, but makes things easier!)
  • A black pen

Brazilian Samba Dancer Craft

How to make this Brazilian samba dancer craft:

  • Download & print the 3 free printables Printable 1 Printable 2 Printable 3
  • Take your large background piece of paper, position and trace the placement guide (Printable 3) onto it (or cut out the placement guide figure and glue it in the centre of the background paper)
  • Use the dress up kit template (Printable 1) to make Duck Tape / washi stickers in the shapes of the samba dancer’s bikini, headdress and tail feathers.  We used little lovelies‘ brilliant tutorial for washi stickers (using a waxed paper backing makes it easy to cut out a template neatly).  You can use whatever colours you choose here.  If you want to make your Samba dancer representative of a particular country, why not look at their flag and use that as your guide?
  • Stick your largest headdress piece (1) to the background paper, using the pre-traced positioning template as your guide
  • Stick the smaller headdress piece (2) on top of the larger one
  • Trace your samba dancer body outline onto the flesh-tone paper that you have chosen, cut it out and stick the HEAD ONLY (3) on top of the headdress (using the placement guide)
  • Stick pieces 4-9 (in order!) to the background paper, using the placement guide
  • Then stick the rest of the samba dancer’s body (10 & 11) down
  • Finally, stick on her bikini and use your black pen to draw on her face and other details

If you have younger kids, just print out the placement template (Printable 3) and let them colour it in!

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  1. This looks good! It would even make a great football party decoration.

    • You are absolutely right Tarana! 🙂
      Thank you for commenting.

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