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75 Zoo Animal Crafts For Kids
Kids are new learners at every phase of their childhood. They experience their surroundings with a thrill of fun and excitement. Among all of them, the Zoo, a place of animals with varieties of sounds, shapes, and colors, is always the instrument of fascination for kids.
They always have a different sensation of love for animals, they used to imitate, their sounds and act like favorite animals and play with family and friends, etc. All these kinds of activities make them intimate with zoo animals and their activities. Thus, this learning process can be more exhilarating through activities like easy crafts ideas, that would enhance the power of thinking, exploring, observing, and understanding.
Below are some crazing craft ideas for zoo animals:
Zoo Animal Crafts For Kids
Preparing Clay Giraffe Craft for Youngsters
Image Source/Tutorial: Kids Art & Craft
This craft is perfect for young children who are learning about animals. It is easy to make and helps teach kids about different shapes and colors. Preparing the clay giraffe craft is a fun and creative activity that will bring a smile to their faces.
DIY Balloon Tiger Craft Activity For Kindergartners
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This DIY Balloon Tiger Craft For Kids is a fun and easy craft that kids of all ages can enjoy. It only requires a few materials, such as balloons, paper, and markers, and can be completed in just a few steps. It’s a great way to get kids creative and make a cute keepsake.
Handmade Tube Tiger Craft Using Cardboard
This fun and creative craft uses cardboard tubes to make an adorable tiger. It’s a great project for kids to do together and will make a cute addition to any room. It’s sure to be a hit with all ages!
Easy To Make Peanut Shell Giraffe Craft For Kids
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This fun and easy craft is perfect for kids! With just a few supplies, you can make a cute peanut shell giraffe that is sure to bring a smile to your child’s face. It’s a great way to get creative and spend quality time with your little one.
Making a Giraffe Out of Handprints
Image Source/Tutorial: Kids Art & Craft
Making a giraffe out of handprints is a fun and creative project for kids. It’s an easy and fun way to create a unique art project with just a few supplies. With a little bit of help and guidance, children can make a delightful giraffe that will be proudly displayed.
Flower Lion Craft for Children
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This fun flower lion craft is a great project for kids to do. It uses simple materials and is fun to create. The end result is a beautiful lion that makes a great decoration or gift.
Simple Paper Elephant Craft With Moving Trunk
This paper elephant craft is a great and fun activity for children of all ages. It’s simple to make with just a few materials and the trunk even moves! Kids will love the end result and it’s a great way to get them learning and having fun at the same time.
Crafting a reindeer design with paper
Image Source/Tutorial: Kids Art & Craft
Creating a paper reindeer is a fun and easy project for kids. It’s a great way to get creative and make something special for the holiday season. All you need is paper, scissors, glue, and a few other supplies to make a beautiful reindeer design.
Making a Dinosaur Craft Out of Paper For Kids
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Making a dinosaur craft out of paper is a great activity for kids. It’s fun, creative, and easy to make. All you need is paper, scissors, and some coloring supplies. The results are sure to be impressive and your kids will love it!
Making a Leaf Fox Craft with Kids
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Making a Leaf Fox Craft with Kids is a fun and creative way to get your children to express themselves. They can use different colors, shapes, and sizes of leaves to make a unique and personalized fox. It’s a great way to spend quality time with your kids, while also teaching them about nature.
Turning an Egg Carton into a Cute Bunny for Kids
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Making a cute bunny out of an egg carton is a fun and easy project that kids will love – perfect for a spring craft! All you need is an egg carton, some paint, and some creativity. Let your children help you make this sweet bunny and create wonderful memories together!
How to Make Giraffe Art Using Fallen Leaves
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Giraffes are one of the most beloved animals, graceful and majestic. And what better way to enjoy them than to make art and crafts with fallen leaves? Whether you want to create something to decorate your house .
Letter With Alligator’s Face
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Learning the alphabet is the first step for kids of starting learning. Learning with pictures and crafts has a profound impact on kids as they help kids to understand the topic quickly in their minds and to recapitulate what they learned. Here is an example of craft ideas for making learning alphabets an amazing process for kids.
For making A alphabet of alligator faces, all required materials are plain cardstocks of different colors, glue sticks, and scissors. Now take a green cardstock and print the A alphabet on it and cut it with the help of a scissor (don’t ask a toddler to use scissors). Take cardstock of white color and cut it into different pieces of triangular shapes and in the shape of an alligator’s eyes. Now lay a piece of cardstock of any different color and ask a kid to paste The alphabet all pieces together with the glue stick, as shown in the picture, to make it complete.
Letter Alligator Face Craft For Kids With Popsicle Stick
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This craft is of an alligator made up of craft sticks. Craft sticks are used for many purposes and this could be an amazing idea for kids to make a new craft with craft sticks. Kids would love to play with craft sticks with friends and family and along with fun kids would learn more facts about alligators. In this way, crafting could be a wonderful way to teach more and more about zoo animals.
Footprint Craft of Dinosaur
Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning
Kids are always curious and fascinated to observe the world around them with a bag of questions to solve mysteries in their minds. Dinosaurs are having some magical power that arises many unknown questions and stimulates every one of all ages to search for them. These questions can be answered for kids, by simple craft activities. One of them is making crafts of dinosaurs with footprints.
For this amazing craft, the materials required are a plain white sheet, green paint, googly eyes, a black marker, and your kid’s small foot. Paint the kid’s feet green and ask the kid to stamp them on white paper. Repeat it so that it would look like a “V”, as shown in the picture. Wait for some to dry, after it dries draw dinosaurs’ teeth with a black marker and complete the craft by adding googly eyes.
DIY Alligator Puppet Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
This is a DIY alligator puppet craft. This wonderful craft is made up of easily available materials like construction papers, googly eyes, and markers. This is a simple craft but this is an amazing playing instrument for kids. Kids would love to be engaged in this craft as it would be full of fun to play with this alligator puppet with friends and family. Also, this would lead to the development of kids’ skills like creative skills, they would learn to follow instructions.
Alligator Shaped Box Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Crayon Box Chronicles
Making a box with an alligator’s shape would be a box of developing many skills together. This alligator craft box would not be only for kids but can be a game of learning and fun for all ages. It is made up of tissue paper and cardboard. This craft would develop kids’ motor skills, build self-esteem, and artistic visions, enhance concentrations level, and would make up aware of using different input materials for wonderful ideas. This box can be used for many purposes for kids like playing with friends and family, as a decoration object, storing kids’ small materials, etc.
Paper Weaving Alligator Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Dali’s Moustache
Weaving activities are not limited to a particular age, it is one of the utmost activities to fasten thinking level and creative thoughts in our minds. Weaving and painting together put imagination and skills in one thread to generate a new wonderful outcome. Paper weaving activities are full of fun for kids. This paper weaving alligator craft requires cardstocks of white color, a glue stick, scissors, watercolors, glitters, and a brush. Take a white color cardstock and paint it green colors and glitters and cut the paper into looms. Now start creating paper weaving and cut different pieces of the alligator’s eyes in circles, teeth, and mouth in triangular pieces, as shown in the picture. Take a glue stick and put all pieces together to make a paper weaving alligator.
Alligator with Clothespin Craft
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Who is not going to fall in love with this amazing craft of alligator? This amazing craft is going to be an intriguing object of playing and learning for kids and a fun activity for you too. It doesn’t require many supplies and is easy to make. Materials required are clothespin, green and red paint, a paintbrush, green pipe cleaner, scissors, green color paper, googly eyes, and a glue stick. For making it, take a clothespin and paint it green color and paint the inner side with red color to give the effect of an alligator’s tongue, cut green paper strips, and fold them accordingly, as shown in the picture. Now cut 4 pieces from your green pipe cleaner and bend them in a V shape to form the legs and arms. Take a dried clothespin and fix a green strip, googly eyes, and pieces of green pipe on it. Here is the clothespin craft of alligator is ready.
Cardboard Crocodiles Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Art With Kids
This eye catchy crocodile is going to make kids full of fun and this would help to develop an understanding of another zoo animal with greater innovative ideas, creative skills, and many facts about the crocodile. This is going to add another bag of knowledge for kids.
To make this amazing crocodile materials that are required are heavy rippled paper, glue sticks, green sparkly buttons/googly eyes, and white and green cardstock. Now take rippled papers and cut them into different pieces- cut 4 strips with good width and make rolls of them with the help of glue sticks, cut it into other pieces for mouth and tail, in the shape as shown in pieces. Take white paper and cut small triangular pieces and cut shapes of legs from green cardstocks, as shown in the picture. Fix all these pieces accordingly with the help of a glue stick and complete it with eyes.
Crocodile’s Face With Bubble Wrap
Image Source/Tutorial: Positively Splendid
Bubble wraps are always an instrument of fun and bring smiles to faces of all ages. Kids are so fond of bubble wraps; they press bubbles to hear the satisfying pop sound and that kindles them to play it with more. You can make an amazing craft of a crocodile’s face by rolling a sheet of bubble wrap into a tube-like structure and securing it with the help of a tap and painting it with the help of green color. Now take a red sheet and cut out a frill and fold over the bottom edge. Take 2 Styrofoam balls and paint them with white and black color to make the eyes of a crocodile. Once all get dries, assemble them with the help of a glue stick as shown in the picture.
Craft Stick Crocodile Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Easy Peasy And Fun
Kids are always having a soft spot for ice creams in their hearts. You must have seen them playing with the left-over ice cream stick. So now let’s think in a different way of how these sticks can be more playful for kids. Let’s turn out these sticks into an amazing crocodile craft. For making this unique craft, first, take craft sticks/ice cream sticks and colored them with green paint. Next, take a green-colored pipe cleaner and wrap it around the craft stick/ice cream stick and continue till a quarter of the stick is unwrapped, and repeat the same process with 2nd pipe cleaner. Cut teeth with zig-zag scissors and stick all materials together with glue and complete the craft with googly eyes.
Newspaper Hippopotamus Craft
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Your kid must leave wonderstruck after seeing such a gigantic body of a hippopotamus and quite wonderful to know about this animal. So, let’s make them familiarise themselves with another wonderful memory with a wonderful and simple craft activity that is going to open kids’ skills in wider ways. You can create this craft with the help of newspapers and you and your kid are having an amazing time making this.
H Letter Craft
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Let’s continue the process of learning easier with full of fun and deep-rooted influence of remembering things in kids’ minds. Here is a new craft, that is quite simple and amazing for kids and helps in building their understanding, organizing, and learning skills.
All required materials are purple-colored, red-colored, and white paper, 2 pompoms, google eyes, a glue stick, and scissors. First, start withdrawing the hippo’s head and a big H letter on purple paper and cutting them. Draw 2 rectangles on a white sheet and a semi-circle on a red sheet for teeth and tongue respectively, and cut them. Paste the hippo’s head on top of the letter with the help of a glue stick and complete the craft by pasting teeth, tongue, and google eyes as shown in the picture. And another alphabet in another amazing craft is ready.
Paper Plate Hippopotamus Craft to Make With Parents
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
This is a paper plate hippopotamus craft. Kids must have learned many ideas of experimenting with paper plates. This is another example of paper plate crafts, based on a new zoo animal- the hippopotamus. This craft would give kids’ the experience of crafting 3d arts and thus it would help kids in learning and understanding more facts about the hippopotamus. Kids would come to know how a single paper plate can be converted into many uses and this would develop their artistic, creative, and critical thinking skills.
Paper Bag Hippopotamus Craft
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As a bag can hold many items, in the same kids can hold many new ideas and thoughts. Paper bags are one of the best craft materials that kids could scrunch and twist into new crafts in tons of ways. The crafting of paper bags is not narrowed only to kids rather can be crafted by any age. This amazing craft activity would be very helpful for kids as it enhances the skill of using things in many unique ways. This craft is about organizational skills. Try out this craft with kids by using paper bags and paper plates and figure out what new comes out of your kid’s hands.
Cardboard Tube Hippo Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Creative Family Fun
Here comes out another craft for kids. This superb, extremely cute cardboard tube hippo craft is going to be kids’ favorites as again it doesn’t require many supplies rather it is simply based on using unused materials, which is again going to build kids’ dexterity, motor skills, and imagination skills in the most exciting ways. For making this, take and paint cardboard tubes with grey color. Cut two circles from paper for ears and paint them with grey color and draw small circles in the center of them with a black marker. Make a circle with white and black paint in the middle of each tube (as shown in the picture). The glue that ears on the top of each tube and completes the craft with googly eyes.
Rhino Drawing Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Learn to Create Love
Kids have imaginations of tons of colors. They see surrounding in different colors and one can have insight into a child’s thoughts and the world through their drawing and coloring. Drawing plays indispensable in kids’ mental development as it allows them to generate thoughts, express feelings, and develop logical thinking and creative skills. Teaching kids about zoo animals through such kinds of printable drawings would be amazing for them. Try out this coloring and drawing activity with kids for different animals. Just take out a print of a rhino(or of any animal) and let kids’ fill it with the colors of their world.
R Letter Craft
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Comes up with another activity for kids that again would help kids in making learning the alphabet an easier process. They fall in love with the amazing process of learning that not only helps to remember the alphabet quickly but also able them to do experiments with colors and explore more and more about zoo animals. This activity includes taking out the print of the R letter and asking kids to color it. This time your kids are going to explore some more amazing facts about rhinos- how they look, they are of which colors, what they do, and many more. So, enrich kids with fun and simple activity of learning alphabets.
Paper Plate Bear Mask
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Teddy bear is the favorite part of your kids. The way kids are addicted to a teddy bear is undefinable in words. It is their friend, compassion, and even crime partner. No matter what the situation is but kids are having a unique bond with teddy bears. So, let’s try to make them more connected with bears by engaging them in amazing bear craft activities. This paper plate bear face mask craft would be an instrument of fun, and play, making the bond stronger and leading to the development of various skills of kids.
B Letter Craft
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Like various zoo animals, whose crafts could be used as a learning tool for kids, here is another example of this wonderful craft. As teddy bears are all-time partners of kids, again this alphabet craft B letter is going to enhance the learning power of kids and turned out to be a playful way to introduce how the letter looks and sounds to kids. This letter craft doesn’t require many supplies rather can be made with colored papers, colored pens, and scissors.
Cardboard Tube Bear Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Creative Family Fun
Cardboard tubes are quite easy to find and easy to toss way them. They seem to be of no use but the best from waste could give them a second to be useful for you again. This idea of making new innovative things from old ones would teach kids a new amazing activity with the idea of how usage of waste things would lead to making our life easier. For this craft, take two tubes and paint them black and brown color. Cut ears from brown colored paper and use a glue stick to paste them into tubes and complete the craft with googly eyes and colored pens.
Paper Plate Bear Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts Blog
Isn’t the craft picture fascinating to you? Now think how much this craft is going to be enchanting for kids. This would be an activity for all kids to imprint their favorite bear on a paper plate. To make these craft materials required are a paper plate, glue, black and brown cardstock paper, brown tissue paper, and scissors. Start it by cutting brown tissue paper into small pieces, applying glue on the paper, and then placing all pieces of tissue paper on glue and letting it dry for some time. Now take a brown cardstock and cut it into a circle and cut eyebrows, nose mouth, and eyes from the black one (as shown in the picture). Take all the cut pieces and paste them onto a paper plate with glue. Here is the amazing craft of bear on a paper plate that is ready for kids to play with and can be used for decorations as well.
Pom Poms Polar Bear Craft
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Let’s move on to another different idea for kids to develop their minds and skills in different ways. The polar bear craft is quite simple with an amazing experience with pom pom. This pom poms activity is not only fun but also one of the best tools to develop motor skills and would enhance the knowledge of kids in diverse ways of learning about snow, pom pom, and polar bears. For this craft, take a sheet of blue color (you can take any color), and let the kid draw the face of polar wear with pom poms by dipping it into white color. Add nose and mouth with the help of glue by cutting them from black cardstock and complete the polar bear’s face with googly eyes.
Paper Bag Elephant Craft
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Let’s make kids familiar with another zoo animal. Ask your kid if he/she could figure out the animal with a long nose. If he/she does it’s good but if not then don’t worry, here is a wonderful activity to get them into learning about zoo animals with the development of motor skills, communication skills, and learning and understanding skills. This paper bag elephant craft would add new wings to kids’ knowledge and fun. For this craft, take a brown paper bag and cut the ears and trunk from blue paper. Paste ears and trunk on paper with the glue and draw eyes and mouth with a felt tip pen to complete this paper bag elephant.
Cardboard Tube Elephant Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Creative Family Fun
You have come across some cardboard tube activities with different zoo animal faces. Here is another somehow same craft activity but with a new zoo animal with long ears and a trunk. To make this cardboard tube, you and your kid require a cardboard tube and paint it a grey color. Take thin cardboard and draw two ears and a trunk of an elephant and cut all pieces. Paint ears and trunk with grey color. Glue ears and trunk on cardboard tubes as shown in pictures. This amazing cardboard tube craft is ready to play with and learn more and more.
Coffee Filter Elephant Craft
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Teaching kids about daily usable objects and things is an extremely indispensable part of their social, physical, and mental development. Making them familiar with such kinds of things makes them confident, knowledgeable, and growing kids. This could be boosted by this amazing coffee filter elephant craft. For making this, take a coffee filter and color it grey and glue it to the center of construction paper (of any color) using crayons draw a mouth and eyes on it. Take another piece of coffee paper and color it with gray crayon and cut in the shape of a trunk and glue it on the elephant’s face. And this amazing craft is ready for kids to have fun, play, and learn.
Balloon Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts Blog
Kids’ love for balloons is always on cloud nine. They feel highly ecstatic by playing and blowing colorful balloons in the air. These playing tools would be an instrument of fun and play as well as for building self-esteem, sense of satisfaction, motor skills development, and hand-eye Coordination of kids, by turning out them into amazing crafts. Let’s make a balloon card craft by taking a balloon and folding it in half. Now secure the balloon in front of the card with glue. Cut out ears from card stock of any color and paste them on both sides of the balloon. Complete this beautiful craft with googly eyes.
Sponge Painted Elephant Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Buggy And Buddy
Different colors attract the attention of all ages. Colorful pictures and arts create different visions and imaginations for kids and induce their minds towards positivity and a better understanding of their surroundings. For this practice here is a colorful sponge-painted elephant craft. For this craft take tempera colors, craft plates, small square sponges, and white and black construction sheets. Pour some tempera colors onto craft plates. Either print or draw an elephant on a white construction sheet and cut it. Now take sponges and dip into colors and use them to stamp rows of squares on the elephant. Kids can create a pattern of any kind. Complete the colorful craft of an elephant with googly eyes and glue it on black construction paper, as shown in the picture.
Paper Plate Elephant Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: The Joy Of Sharing
Isn’t it an adorable craft? Your eyes have fallen for this craft. This beautiful colorful paper plate elephant craft is going to be a wonderful play tool for kids. This craft would not only provide a way to learn more about elephant but also leads to developing their organizational skills, motor skills, and art skills and boost their confidence. This craft is made by folding a paper plate from the middle and then drawing an elephant and decorating it, thus this would give kids a sense of 3D craft.
Crumpled Newspaper Elephant Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Buggy And Buddy
This is the craft of crumpled newspaper and going to be a super excited and amazing experience for kids. It looks like giving some effort to make this craft but no, you and the kids are going to have tons of fun with little effort and work. This craft would develop many skills in kids and could be used for decorations as well. Kids would learn how to reuse used materials, and learn problem-solving skills and this activity would add wings to their creativity level.
Heart Shape Elephant Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Simple Mom Project
Crafts and activities help kids to make their learning and understanding process easy. This craft is of elephant on construction paper. Such kinds of crafts are always easy to do with many benefits for kids. For making this heart-shaped elephant craft, the materials required are pink and grey construction papers, scissors, a glue stick, and googly eyes. Begin by taking a grey construction paper and cutting it into a heart-shaped elephant with a trunk (as shown in the picture) and cutting out two heart-shaped ears from grey construction paper. Again, cut out three heart shapes from pink construction paper. Now glue all the pieces together as shown in the picture and complete the craft with googly eyes.
Paper Plate Elephant Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts Blog
Figuring out more ideas on paper plate craft, here is another one. This paper plate elephant craft is a quite simple but equally amazing idea for kids to play, learn and decorate. For this craft, take a paper plate, grey tissue paper, cardstock (grey, black and white), a glue stick, and scissors. Begin by cutting small square pieces of grey tissue paper and fixing them on the paper plate with the help of a glue stick. Cut trunk, tail, ears, and legs pieces from grey cardstock and oval shapes for eyes from black and white cardstock. Now take all these pieces and glue them on a paper plate accordingly as shown in the picture. And this is how an amazing friendly elephant craft is ready to play.
Cheetah Handprint Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Fun Handprint Art
Kids are always inspired by the strength and power cheetahs have in them. They are quite influenced by them and wanted to be as strong as they are. Learning more and more about cheetahs would be their favorite part and this learning would be highly efficacious through amazing cheetah crafts and activities. This handprint cheetah craft would develop kids’ minds, would support their sensory integration, augment hearing, touch, and smelling senses, enhance knowledge of colors, stimulate creativity and imagination, and many more benefits. This craft is fun for kids to play with as they can create their world through their small fingers and soft touches.
Cheetah Face Mask
Image Source/Tutorial: Learn to Create Love
Kids love to wear the mask of zoo animals, but one of their favorites is of cheetah mask. This cheetah face mask craft would let kids in creating the mask of their choice and would be an amazing play tool for them. For making this mask craft, the materials required are 2 paper plates, a jumbo popsicle stick, a paintbrush, scissors, a marker, and paint. Take a paper plate and color it with metallic golden color, draw two ovals on it for the eyes and cut these ovals from the plate with the help of scissors. Now add the cheetah’s facial features on the plate like mouth, nose, and lines and dots, as shown in the picture. After it dries, glue the colored paper plate on a plain paper plate and glue the jumbo popsicle stick between them that would be used to hold the mask.
K Cup Cheetah Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Artsy Momma
K cups aren’t limited to being used only for drinking purposes, rather they are more than that. They can be used for doing amazing inventions or crafts for all ages. The turned-out result of this craft is much more amazing than the process of making it. For making K cup cheetah craft, take a K cup and paint it with beautiful yellow color, and repeat this process of coloring twice. Draw some dots, nose, and mouth of a cheetah on the cup. Cut out two ears from yellow cardstock and make them fold at the bottom. Now attach them and googly eyes on the cup, as shown in the picture. To complete this super easy craft, take a yellow pipe cleaner of suitable length and glue it on the backside of the cup in the shape of the tail.
Cheetah Cardboard Tube Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Creative Family Fun
Till now, you have learned cardboard tube crafts for many zoo animals, you can use the idea of making cheetah faces on a cardboard tube as well. This activity helps kids to develop their organizational and motor skills. For making this, take a cardboard tube and paint it with yellow color. Draw some dots and the cheetah’s facial features on the painted cardboard, as shown in the picture. Cut out two ears from yellow cardstock and glue them on tubes. Here the craft is done by adding googly eyes.
DIY Cheetah Print Mug Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Overstuffed
Kids love lots of colors and decorative ideas for their things as colors stimulate their imagination more powerfully. Playing with colors makes their imaginations more powerful and opens new thoughts of positivity and peace in their minds. This idea could be applied to their daily usage of objects through some amazing crafts that make them happier. We have one of such kinds of crafts here, for making this DIY cheetah print mug craft, take a mug (preferably of white color) of a kid’s favorite and start making dots with golden paint and also engage kids in making and decorating the mug. Now track the black marker around golden dots, as shown in the pictures. To set the dots, place the mug on a cookie sheet and heat it to 350 degrees for 30 minutes in the oven. Here is the beautiful new mug ready.
Zebra Stripe Cupcake Liner Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
After working with many crafts of different zoo animals, here is another zoo animal. Every kid must have heard this name while reciting alphabets, i.e., “Z for Zebra”. This cupcake liner craft of zebra is going to teach kids a lot more about zebra- how it looks, what it does, how it sleeps, etc. This craft doesn’t require many supplies but it carries tons of benefits for kids. This would be going to develop the motor skills, learning, and understanding power of kids. Take zebra stripe cupcake liners and cut them into different pieces to form a zebra body, as shown in the picture. Take a glue stick and googly eyes and paste all pieces together on construction paper to give the shape of zebra, as shown in the picture.
Paper Bag Zebra Craft For Kids
Image Source/Tutorial: The Inspiration Edit
This is a paper bag zebra craft. This craft is not only done by ids, rather it can be experienced by anyone of any group. This super easy craft would make your simple paper bag an attractive paper bag. With this craft, kids would learn the importance of a paper bag, their creative and artistic skills would develop. Kids would love to do this craft with friends and family; thus, this crafting time can be more fruitful by teaching kids facts related to zebra and paper bags along the crafting. It would be worth it for kids and you as well to do this craft.
Zebra Footprint Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: The Pinterested Parent
Crafting with fingerprints, hand prints, and footprints is always a special activity for kids with lots of fun. This craft is very simple with lots of fun, play, and power to develop kids’ minds. These kinds of crafts develop hearing, touching, and smelling senses in kids. This is an excellent way to develop artistic and creative skills and an amazing way to preserve precious memories of kids’ imprints for a longer time.
Zebra Popsicle Stick Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts
It’s time to find out the craft for the Z letter. All ages people are fond of eating ice cream but we usually throw away popsicle sticks. So, let’s make the best out of them instead of throwing them, that could be highly beneficial for kids in learning alphabets in a new and efficacious way. For popsicle stick craft, take some popsicle sticks and create a Z letter from them with Zebra’s face. And with this, kids fall in love with the amazing process of learning that would open up wings of experiments with colors and explore more and more zebra.
Gallop Zebra Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
This gallop zebra craft must have amazed you. No one can keep their eyes away from this extremely wonderful craft. This galloping finger puppet zebra craft would be proven highly beneficial for kids as this would develop kids’ motor skills, would be a fun and playing instrument, would enhance knowledge, and easier for kids to bear-in-minds facts about zoo animals. This craft is not restricted to kids rather can be enjoyed by any age group. This craft is going to give 3D vibes while playing with friends and family.
Zebra Theme Heart Shaped Card Craft
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Kids are known to be having kind hearts. Teaching them to be kind, and to have a positive attitude towards situations and surroundings, helps them to stand out from the crowd as being kind and positive are vital factors to move towards life goals by clearing all hurdles. Making and giving cards and small hand makes crafts show the gesture of love. Hence, this teaching lesson to kids can be more efficacious by making lovely zebra theme-based heart-shaped cards. This craft would work in multi ways as this would teach kids more about zebra as well as teach the importance of showing kindness and love through cute handmade crafts.
Zebra Paper Bag Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
Paper bags are used for various purposes. These paper bags can be turned into many new forms so that can look good rather than simple paper bags. Here is an example of how paper bags can be transformed into an amazing DIY craft with the zebra theme. This activity is not restricted only to kids rather can be enjoyed by any age group. To make it, take a paper bag and start with all your craft instruments- color, googly eyes, construction papers, and crayons. With lots of fun, your new zebra-based theme paper bag is ready.
Paper Roll Animal Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: One Little Project
The paper roll animal craft is looking super cute and cute. This is a craft in which kids love to be engaged and would learn how to work with papers/rolls in profound ways. This would help kids in developing organizational skills and boost confidence levels. To make this craft, take brown card stock/painted toilet paper roll and cut out the card stock in rectangle, 6″ x 4″, and make a roll of it with the help of a glue stick. Cut out the brown circle, then cut out two ears, two legs, and a rounded heart shape from cream-colored paper, as shown in the picture. Take all pieces together and fix them on a paper roll and complete the craft with googly eyes and brown pipe cleaner, as shown in the pictures.
Pipe Cleaner Monkey Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Frugal Fun 4 Boys
Kids must have seen monkeys not only in zoos but also somewhere roaming on the streets. Kids recognize them with their color. But they need to teach more and more facts about this animal. To engage kids in learning, this pipe cleaner monkey craft would be an amazing activity for kids. This would not only make them familiarize themselves with monkeys but also develop their craft and creativity skills. This would also be a playing instrument that kids can play with friends and family and would spread the knowledge they gained among their peers.
K Cup Monkey Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Artsy Momma
This k cup craft must have captured your eyes. This craft is super easy for kids to make with tons of fun and development of their skills. This would develop their organizational skills and creative and artistic minds. Teaching about K cups, their usage gesture, and monkey, these crafts could play an indispensable role in achieving this target. This is also a good way to reuse the k cup again. Also, encourage kids to perform this activity with peers as this would develop their socials skill, and creative ideas and would create a collaborative environment.
Heart-Shaped Monkey Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning
This is the heart-shaped monkey craft for kids. This craft is based on valentine’s theme. This would help kids in expressing love to near and dear ones with their own cute and wonderful crafts. Creating this craft would build planning skills and concentration skills because the making process requires some planning, gathering materials, and executing the plan to achieve a goal or vision of expressing words and feelings through using their creative ideas of making crafts with the base of monkeys’ crafts and the theme of valentine.
Paper Bag Monkey Craft
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This is the paper bag monkey craft. Crafting on a paper bag is not only beneficial for kids but also helps anyone of any age to do something creative and in enhancing and polish crafting skills. This amazing paper would be easily available to do experiments with a monkey face. Recreating a simple paper bag into an attractive one would lead to building kids’ confidence, boosting their creative minds, would learn how to work from step to step to achieve a goal. This easy craft is an instrument of fun and plays for kids and they are going to use this new amazing paper bag to keep the things.
Fingerprint Monkey Craft
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Kids first start their step toward learning by sensing touch. This fingerprint craft of monkeys is an amazing activity for kids to express their words in drawings, just by leaving their small imprints of fingers. Such kinds of crafts are always fun for kids because it is one of those crafts in which kinds have messy colorful fingers and kids always love to have fun playing with colors, spreading them all around and no one would be going to rebuke them for making this mess because this would help kids in growing and building their skills.
Paper Plate Monkey Craft
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This is the paper plate monkey craft. This craft must have resembled decorating home decors. So, let’s engage kids in creating amazing crafts with lots of fun and important lessons. This craft would help in developing skills like motor skills, organizational skills, and knowledge of different shapes and objects and could teach some important lessons regarding the usage of papers, paper plates, gestures regarding eating, methods of coloring, more facts about monkeys- how it looks, what it does, how it eats, etc.
Perler Beads Sloth Craft
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This is the craft of Perler beads for kids. Perler beads are among those that are very beneficial for kids’ overall development. This craft is of a sloth made up of Perler beads. Perler beads are readily available and their crafts would be a great source of fun and play for kids. With Perler beads, kids can create their imaginations and help in the development of fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination, and helps in understanding and learning basic math and counting. So, kids must spend time on this activity to enjoy a good quality time. This activity not only attracts kids, but it is equally amazing for others to create different things with these beads.
Popsicle Sticks Sloth Craft
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Popsicle sticks are just a piece but this single pick could be turned out into many unique and wonderful crafts that would be amazing to see. To hone artistic, motor, and creative skills, working with popsicle sticks could be a great idea. This craft of sloths would help kids to recognize other zoo animals- sloths, learn how to draw them, and the best way to learn facts about sloths. All this would help in exercising the brain and thus would be an aid in kids’ academic success and social development. Kids can also use them for playing and decorating materials to show to friends.
Paper Sloth Craft
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This craft must have captured your attention. This is the craft of a super cute paper sloth. Many kids may not be familiar with this animal, so teaching them about this cute sloth would be a task and fun for kids as well as for you. This craft involves drawing, coloring, and pasting different paper pieces together, hence this craft would help in the development of thinking skills, planning skills, developing imagination, and development of understanding and grabbing things. With this, you can teach facts about sloths to kids.
Sloth Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
Isn’t adorable to see this beautiful craft that is spreading vibes of peace? The way this sloth is looking cute is how kids also look cute. This craft is made from different pieces of construction paper and joins them together. While practicing this activity, you can inject the vibes of kindness, love, and a humble attitude towards others, into kids’ hearts. This would develop social and soft skills. This would also be a new experience for kids to craft this picture and learn many skills and deeds in a highly effective way.
Paper Plate Sloth Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts
We have done many crafts with paper plates for different zoo animals. The power of paper plates to be used in craft is everywhere. You can again use and get the benefits of crafting with paper plates. Here is another example of a paper plate craft for sloth. This activity helps you and your kids in learning something new from old objects, this is the best way to enhance critical thinking skills, organizational skills, and making and executing plans skills. Along with them, kids would find it an object of fun and play with friends.
Paper Plate and Sewing Panda Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Danya Banya
Moving ahead towards the journey of learning about zoo animals with amazing crafts. Here is another zoo animal- a panda. Kids must have seen them in movies, cartoons, and pictures. This beautiful and playful sewing craft of panda would help kids to know about this cute and cuddly animal. This craft also makes kids’ introduction to the technique of hand sewing in the most playful manner. This experience would be new for kids to do hand sewing and help in the development of their confidence, enhance skills in wider fields, help in practicing communication and follow instructions. This craft would be a pack of play, fun, and learning.
Potato-Stamped Panda Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Arts And Crafts
Your kids are going to be spellbound after knowing this amazing potato-stamped panda craft. Kids must have done fingerprinting crafts and painting, it’s time for introducing a new style of making and creating paintings. This potato-stamped craft would help kids in learning various, shapes, patterns, color recognition, etc., and also help in the development of visual perceptions of kids and would increase the capacity to think far. Kids are going to have the most quality time spent on this craft as it is full of fun, and play. This craft can be enjoyed by any age group.
Paper Plate Panda Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts
The way this craft has stolen your heart by its cuteness is the way this craft would also going to be one of the favorites of kids. This alluring paper plate panda craft is super easy and fun for kids. This craft can also be used as a decorating object- as a remark of a kid’s creativity. Practicing this black and white panda craft on a paper plate teaches kids a lot about color combinations, and would increase the capacity to think far, and develop motor skills, and organizational skills. Kids should try this out.
Cardboard Tube Panda Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Creative Family Fun
This is a cardboard tube panda craft. Crafting with cardboard tubes helps in the development of artistic and creative skills, and leads to the development of motor skills, and critical thinking. Working with tubes would be one of the best ways to learn to use different objects could be used for creating something new from them and this would teach kids the importance of coloring- how colors can enhance the beauty and spread messages that you want to. Just like a panda face on cardboard, kids can draw the face of any other zoo animal also.
Tiger Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
This is the craft of a tiger made up of using different shapes and sizes of different color construction papers. Kids must have been influenced by the strength and power of a tiger and many a time kids are found to be imitating a tiger’s sound, strength, and walk. So, let’s create something crafting for kids that would help in knowing the tiger more and more, just by taking different construction papers, scissors, and glue-stick. This craft would teach kids about different shapes, colors, and patterns- hence this would grow their skills, confidence level, organizational, understanding skills, and knowledge.
Cardboard Tube Tiger Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Creative Family Fun
This is a craft of a tiger made up of cardboard tubes. Kids used to play with cardboard tubes by rolling them, making houses with them, and in many different ways. So, some imperative lessons and the task of kids’ development would be carried out effectively by engaging kids in crafting with cardboard tubes. This craft would help them remember and understand known and unknown facts about tigers. Also, this would boost their confidence level and help them in creating new from unused materials.
Popsicle Sticks Tiger Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning
This craft is of a tiger made up of popsicle sticks. These popsicle sticks are easily available and kids must have used them for a variety of purposes like for artworks, and for playing. This popsicle craft would provide a new ground for kids to expose their creativity along with enhancing their knowledge box. Kids can learn more and more facts about tigers through this craft in a very playful and easy manner and also add new wings to the development of motor and cognitive skills.
Paper Plate Giraffe Craft
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This yellow and brown craft of a giraffe is made up of paper plates. The task of identifying an animal with a long neck would be an easy task for kids as they must have seen this animal many a time. Teaching kids about giraffes would be a tedious task but with this kind of craft, kids would induce themselves in learning more and more about giraffes as crafts are always the instruments of play and skill development. These paper crafts would help kids in the development of their fine motor skills, creative level, and organizational skills.
Finger Puppet Giraffe Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
A craft for all can be this amazing finger puppet giraffe craft. This is a highly effective effectual craft for kids in their overall development as this would develop their artistic and creative level, would build resilience, increase their focus power, and make them familiar with different shapes and colors. This craft doesn’t require many supplies and can be easily made by kids to practice. This would also make the process of learning about giraffes easier for them.
Pom Pom Giraffe Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts
This super cute and wonderful craft of a giraffe is made up of pom poms. This is one of the most efficacious ways of developing many skills in kids. This craft would help in the development of various motor skills- like finger isolation, eye-hand coordination, and balance power. These pom poms, which is a small and soft object, provides many benefits for kids as pressing them during crafting would promote a precision grasp between the thumb and pointer finger for kids. Kids must perform this craft as this craft is a mixed bag of learning opportunities about giraffes and other zoo animals along with skill development.
Card Sticks Giraffe Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Our Kid Things
This is a card sticks giraffe craft. Card sticks are used for many purposes, let’s wider their usage capacity and make them more and more useful for kids. Teaching about giraffes, their importance, their movements, their living habitat, etc., would be easy through this craft as this would capture kids’ attention and make them reluctant to induce themselves in this amazing learning process. Also, with this craft drawing skills, artistic skills, and critical thinking skills would develop- that would be essential for kids to be more creative.
Paper Bag Giraffe Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
This is a paper bag giraffe craft. This craft makes you fall into experimenting and creating new out-of-paper bags. Paper bags are of no designs and colors but this is one of the best crafts to make a simple paper bag into a colorful and attractive one. Crafting it with kids would make kids more creative and artistic, and would spike kids’ interest. This paper bag craft would help kids in learning about giraffes more easily and this would help them in establishing social connections with friends and family by sharing and doing this activity with them.
Rocks Giraffe Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Hello Wonderful
This is a craft of a giraffe made up of small rocks by coloring them yellow and brown paint. Kids love to play with stones. So, it would be effective for kids to provide them a platform for learning with these rocks. Coloring, crafting, and creating from rocks would be a new experience for them and this technique would serve as the instrument for many skills development like- the development of artistic techniques, increasing the ability to recognize shapes and objects, strengthening the penmanship skill, ability to execute perspective and kids’ knowledge about giraffe and other zoo animals.
G Letter Craft
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This is a G letter craft in the theme of a giraffe. Your kids must have spent a lot of time learning the alphabet by writing and pronouncing them manually. Let’s move to a more effective and creative idea to make these letters easily understood by kids. Engaging kids in making this letter craft would be an innovative idea for kids as this would help them in understanding letters more effectively, developing their understanding, and visualizing power. This would make kids learn to follow directions, and fill them with confidence. Along with all these benefits, this craft would let kids know about giraffes a lot.
Foam Cup Lion Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
This is a foam cup lion craft. This craft of a lion gives the sense of a realistic lion. Kids have learned L for Lion but let’s teach them this and more facts about lions through this craft. This craft not only teaches them about lions but would also be a fun game for kids to do crafting with foam cups and yarn. This would help kids in increasing their dexterity skills, creativity skills, critical thinking, cognitive skills, etc. This activity would serve as a way for kids to develop their social communications with friends and family by making this craft together and playing together.
Handprint Lion Card Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Arts And Crafts
This is a handprint lion card craft. This super amazing craft is very easy to do. One of the best ways to express and show feelings to someone is through cards. Handmade cards are always heart-touching as they contain the essence of hard work in making and creating them. Kids must teach this purity of expressing feelings through making cards and their importance. This lesson would be more effective by making this card through the fingerprints of a lion, as this overall craft would develop kids’ motor skills, and communication levels and would enhance knowledge about lions.
Wooden Spoon Lion Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
This is a wooden spoon lion craft. This craft is parallel to a lollipop and kids are fond of lollipops. This craft is perfect for a time when you don’t want to create things messy, this is a super easy and wonderful craft for kids to play and learn along with crafting. This would help kids in recognizing and learning facts about lions in a new and wider way. This craft doesn’t require any coloring action thus this would be another way to develop creative skills and critical thinking to create new ideas for crafting and think out of the prevailing idea box.
Yarn and Paper Plate Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Glued To My Crafts
This is a yarn and paper plate craft for kids. Let’s open kids’ knowledge levels in another direction with this amazing craft. This craft is going to enhance kids’ knowledge not only about lions but this would also make them familiar with yarn. This would be easy for kids to know about yarn, how it looks, how it feels, how it can be used, etc., along with the development of many skills- development of cognitive skills, creative and artistic skills, eye-hand coordination, and helps in recognizing different pattern and shapes.
Sea Shell Lion Craft
Image Source/Tutorial: Crafts On Sea
This is a sea shell lion craft for kids. Kids are going to be amazed by seeing and crafting this craft. This would add other wings to kids’ creativity level and knowledge box. Creating something amazing by combining two different elements- a lion craft and a sea shell element, would open kids’ minds in a much broader sense and would enhance their confidence level, develop their social skills, artistic skill, motor skills, and imagination power, and build resilience. With this craft, teach kids and let them know how sea shells look, what are their functions, where they are found, etc.
Doily Lion
Image Source/Tutorial: I Heart Crafty Things
This picture must have made you fall in love with this craft and you must be eager to try out craft. This is a doily lion kids crafts. The doily is a type of small ornament that is made up of paper or lace and is placed on a plate. This craft would expose kids to new things and crafting on a doily and learning more about lions through this craft, would make them more and more interactive, and creative, and develop organizational skills. This craft can be enjoyed by anyone as this would develop skills of all age groups.
All mentioned above were some of the examples of crafts of zoo animals. Hope you and your kid enjoyed these amazing zoo animal crafts. These crafts will surely be beneficial for kids and bring smiles to charming faces. We would like to hear from you. You can share your experience and give us feedback in the comment section. For more such amazing crafts, please visit our website. Until then keep smiling and crafting with k4craft.
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