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Cute Animal Crafts for Kids

All children adore animals. They’re wonderful. There is some evidence that interacting with animals can help youngsters learn social skills, boost their self-esteem, and even advance their cognitive development. But we aren’t allowed to bring pets home, are we? We will now provide some craft and art ideas. These kid-friendly activities promote kids’ self-esteem, foster patience and persistence, help kids develop emotional intelligence, and encourage contemplation and introspection in addition to stimulating their creativity. Let’s explore a few, shall we?
Cute Animal Crafts for Kids
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1-Spring Chick
You’ll need paper in the shades of orange and yellow, scissors, glue, and googly eyes. Cut out a yellow circle by tracing it. Create feathers by making tiny cuts all the way around the circle’s edge. Then attach googly eyes and a beak made of orange paper. Then, a fabric clip can be used as a stand. Your spring chick is ready.
2-Marshmallow Painted Bunny
Image Source/Tutorial: No Time For Flashcards
You’ll also need some Easter grass, some large marshmallows, paper, scissors, white paint, and glue. Paper is cut into bunny. Paint-dip the marshmallow. And have the bunny bear it. Use any colour of paint you choose. To make it appear as though the rabbit is running on grass, you may add grass to the bottom.
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3-Bunny Finger Puppet
Google eyes, pom-poms, white paper, and empty cardboard paper rolls are required for this activity. After painting the paper rolls, you must allow them to dry. The faces are then attached by cutting them down. A cotton ball can be added as the tail. On the cardboard paper roll, glue googly eyes. You can create a lot of them.
4-Paper Plate Sheep
Image Source/Tutorial: Housing A Forest
You will need glue, googly eyes, a paper plate, and black paper for this exercise. After covering the plate with glue, attach the shredded paper. Glue and paper shreds should be applied in successive layers until the paper plate appears woolly. Glue the legs, ears, and face. Your little sheep is prepared.
5-Farm Animal Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Apples And Abcs
You only need coloured paper, glue, scissors, paint, and finishing touches like buttons and pipe cleaners for this. The paper should be cut into a circular shape. A pipe cleaner tail and button or painted nose can be added. You may create a pig, a cow, or any other farm animal. From this, you may create a bulletin board, a container for chart paper, etc.
6-Animal Greeting Cards
Image Source/Tutorial: Maros Kindercraten
When we think of gifts that kids can make and give, greeting cards are the first thing that comes to mind. You’ll need coloured paper, glue, scissors, and googly eyes for this. Additionally, you may add finishing touches like pipe cleaners, buttons, or thread. On the paper, draw the desired animal’s outline and cut it out. Then adhere it to a different coloured piece of paper. Ask your kids to write whatever they want on the greeting card once you’ve pasted the eyes, tail, etc.
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7-Toilet Paper Goat
You only need tissue paper rolls for this. Googly eyes, coloured paper, scissors, and a marker. Use black paper to create the goat’s hair and goatee. On the roll, attach googly eyes and create a nose and mouth using a marker. This may serve as a vase or a pen holder.
8-Mud Pig
Image Source/Tutorial: Teaching 2 And 3 Year Olds
You only need a piece of paper, a sealable plastic bag, shaving cream, and brown paint for this activity. You must draw and cut out a pig on the paper. Add shaving cream and brown paint to the bag, seal it, and continue patting. After that, remove the pig and let it air dry.
9- Moo Moo Cow
Image Source/Tutorial: Simple Everyday Mom
Colored paper, scissors, glue, markers, and a pencil are required. Print out and cut out the body components of a cow. Attach the nose/mouth area with glue to the cow’s head’s base. Just below the nose openings, glue the cheeks, or colour them in with a marker. Just above the nose/mouth region, position the eyes, and secure with glue. Attach the pink inner ear to the brown outer ear to create the cow’s ears. The finished ears should be glued on the cow’s head’s rear, slightly above the top of the eyes. Horns are to be pasted. Your adorable “moo” cow is prepared.
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10-Headband Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Simple Everyday Mom
You will need coloured paper, scissors, glue, markers, tape, or stapler for this exercise. Cut out a cat’s face you’ve drawn on paper. Tape the base of the headband to a headband extender. Repeat on the other side. From this, you may create any animal just like a dog, fox, elephant, etc. Your kids may wear it at birthday parties that have a zoo theme. just like a dog, fox, elephant, etc.
11-Paper Bunnies
Paper plates, paint, pink and white paper, markers, white pipe cleaners, scissors, a pencil, and glue are required for this activity. On a paper plate, draw a rabbit. You may paint it any colour you choose, whether grey or pink. Markers or paint may be used to create the eyes and nose. Make the whiskers using the pipe cleaners. Your adorable bunnies are prepared.
Image Source/Tutorial: Simple Everyday Mom
12-Animal Lego
Image Source/Tutorial: I CanTeach My Child
You’ll need scissors, animal prints, double-sided tape, and LEGO Duplos. Because these Lego parts are so little and easily swallowed by kids, keep an eye on them. Prints of animals are available for download online. To precisely cut the animal patterns to fit onto LEGO, use scissors. Double-sided tape is required. The kids will learn a lot about animals through this activity.
13-Hay Painting
Image Source/Tutorial: Play Away
You’ll need hay, coloured paper, paint, and marker for this. Draw the outline of anything you like, such as a home, trees, etc., using a marker. Afterward, paint the point of the hay, and draw on the paper. Everything will appear rather nice.
14-Sensory Farm Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Frugal Fun For Boys & Girl
Tetra packs may be used to construct the farm home. Corn should then be added to the field. Then set up your farm with tractors, agricultural animals, etc. Allow your kid to use it for play. They can learn about farm life and the animals that live there. What they do and how.
We hope you enjoyed our interesting, attractive, and entertaining activities. Please do let us know what you think in the comments area. Don’t forget to look at our k4craft articles as well. Soon, we’ll be back with more entertaining articles, as well as a variety of art and activities
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