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KIDS ARTS & CRAFTS IDEAS & PROJECTS: ANIMALS, BUGS, REPTILES, AND CRITTERS ARTS AND CRAFTS PROJECTS IDEAS FOR KIDS

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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Below you will find many animal arts and crafts projects for kids to make cool animals such as reptiles, bugs, mammals, and other creatures.

Birds Crafts

Bugs and Insects

Dinosaurs

Farm Animals Crafts

Jungle / Safari / Rainforest Animals

Reptiles and Amphibians

ANIMALS ... BIRDS ... CRITTERS LISTED BELOW IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER


Alligators / Crocodiles

Ants

Armadillos

Bats & Vampires

Bears

Beavers

Bumblebees

Bunnies (Easter Bunnies & Rabbits)

Butterflies

Camels

Caterpillars

Cats

Cats (Black Scary Cats for Halloween)

Chameleons

Cheetahs

Chickens / Hens / Roosters

Baby Chickens (Easter Chicks)

Chimps, Gorillas, Apes

Chipmunks

Cows / Bulls

Crabs and Lobsters

Crows

Dogs

Doves and Pigeons

Ducks

Baby Ducks (Easter Chicks)

Dolphins

Donkeys / Mules

Elephants

Fish and Underwater Creatures

Flies

Foxes

Flamingoes

Giraffes

Goats

Grasshoppers and Crickets

Hamsters and Guinea Pigs

Hedgehogs

Hippos

Horses

Iguanas

Jellyfish

Kangaroos

Koala Bears

Ladybugs

Leopards

Lemurs

Lions

Lizards and Salamanders

Llamas

Macaws

Manatees

Mice / Rats

Monkeys

Moose

Mosquitoes

Mules

Octopus

Otters

Panthers

Parrots & Macaws

Penguins

Pigs

Polar Bears

Ponies

Porcupines

Raccoons

Rams

Ravens

Rhinos

Scorpions

Seals

Sharks

Sheep / Lambs

Skunks

Snails

Snakes

Spiders

Squids

Squirrels

Starfish

Swans

Tigers

Toucans

Turtles / Tortoises

Turkeys

Vultures

Whales

Wolves

Worms

Zebras

Create Cut Out Standing Paper Animals


Making Paper Cut-Out 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.

Making Shadow ANimals

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

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

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

Drawing Funny Animals

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

How to Make Mobile with Animals

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.

 

 


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