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Here are many animal arts and crafts projects for kids to make cool animals such as reptiles, bugs, mammals, and other creatures.
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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects for Kids > Animal Crafts for Kids
Below you will find many animal arts and crafts projects for kids to make cool animals such as reptiles, bugs, mammals, and other creatures.
Jungle / Safari / Rainforest Animals
ANIMALS ... BIRDS ... CRITTERS LISTED BELOW IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Bunnies (Easter Bunnies & Rabbits)
Cats (Black Scary Cats for Halloween)
Create Cut Out Standing Paper Animals
It's unlikely that you'll see a penguin, or bear on a farm, but it's fun to make them anyway. Stiff paper, pencil, pair of scissors and a little imagination are all you need. Fold the paper, as illustrated, and draw the outline of the animal. The penguin, squirrel and bear are just a few of the animals you can make. Extra parts, like the squirrel's tail, can be taped on. Color your animals with crayon so they look as realistic as possible. If you aren't too great at drawing animals, then visit our other site's Cartoon Animals Tutorials Page.
Create Shadow Animals
A really fun activity to do on sleepovers or when you are watching home movies is to make shadow animals ... aka shadow puppets.
Above you can see how to make a shaddow puppet animal - butterfly, donkey, ox, dog, hare / rabbit, teddy bear, elephant, goat, goose, wolf, dog / hound, reinder, and chamois.
Make Mailing Peanut Animals
If you have a bunch of packing peanuts lying in a box somewhere in your house, how about using them to make a bunch of animals and maybe even some human characters. Use the packing peanuts as the base of your animals. Take pipe cleaners to use for legs and arms on the animals. You can use pipe cleaners for necks and faces in some cases too. You can also use toothpicks for some animals such as camels and birds. You can use anything that you have in the house. You can even use paper and cardboard to draw faces on and then stick to the packing peanuts. Use your creativity.
Floating Cork Animals
The floating alligator is made of corks. String the corks from head through body and tail with a single strand of strong wire. For the head, cut the first cork to make the mouth, placing beads for the eyes. The size of the corks used in the head, body and tail will graduate until the rear of the body is reached, where they will again taper to the end of the tail. To make the legs, one long cork will be enough for each leg. Draw a wire through for one leg, then draw it though the body, and string another cork for the other leg, thus attaching one pair of legs. Repeat for the other pair of legs. Paint the alligator, not necessarily his natural color, but give him bright colors and spots, shellacking to give added luster as he makes his way about the water. Other cork creatures such as giraffes, birds, swans may be made similarly. Perhaps the easiest to make would be the snake, which consists of one long string of corks.
Drawing Silly Animals Game Craft
This is a fun game to play when you are with your good friends. Get out a piece of paper, turn your backs towards eachother and then all of you draw a different random animal (keeping this secret). Fold your portion back when you are done with your part...leaving the end line on the next part of the paper so they know where to start their section of the animal. When you are done with your silly picture, you can open it up and reveal it to all of your friends. This always gets a good laugh as it almost always turns out funny.
Animal Mobiles
To make the triangle part of the animal mobile that you see above, you will ened to cut 3 strips of lightweight cardboard in 1" x 11" strips. Use a hole puncher or awl to punch several holes along the strips that you cut. Now connect all 3 strips together in a triangle shape by using brass paper fasteners. Now you can go on ahead and cut string, yarn, or ribbin in different lengths, 8", 10" and 12" lengths. Now tie the pieces of string to the strips of cardboard and then tape pictures of animals to the bottoms of the string...it looks best if you glue a second animal picture to the other side of each picture so that if the string spins you can see see an animal.
