Paper Stand Up Zebra 1st grade

This lesson is from DEEP SPACE SPARKLE.  The changes I made were: 1) to use tagboard for our zebra drawings  2) instead of adding a background, we glued light green cut paper grass in the space between front and back legs. 
 The first graders carefully cut around outside of zebra, leaving the grass and legs in one large section at bottom of zebra. 

 I folded a small square of cardboard and stapled it on back of grassy area so the zebras stand up all by themselves.