10 educative animal craft ideas for your kids

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Animal craft ideas are fun and educative. You can easily spend hours speaking to your kids about those animals and teaching them new information.

Animal craft ideas are the preferred craft activities that my kids enjoy doing all year long. It may be because they love going to the zoo and spending quality time over there learning about animals, or because they see many kids-friendly animal characters here there, and everywhere. In addition, making animal craft for kids is very simple. When we plan such easy paper craft ideas for kids, we often take a theme and work on it. Moreover, these themes vary from jungle animals to farm animals, while VS domestic, big size VS small pets…

Do you love spending quality time with your kids? What type of activities do you organize for them at home?

Animal crafts are fun, simple, and educative. Hence, you can easily spend an hour or two speaking to your kids about those animals, teaching them a new vocabulary, and feeding them with information; All this while having fun and learning through play.

Suitable for kids from a wide age group, such activities can be organized if you have kids from toddlers to pre-KG & kindergarten. Therefore, it is a great opportunity for you all to bond together and have a happy quality time.

Domestic animal craft ideas:

Chicken:

Whether you are preparing your Easter decoration or organizing a craft activity for your kids, these papercraft chickens are as simple as can be and fit under any category: Spring craft, animal craft, Easter craft, color craft… Why don’t you make a quantity of these chicks and hens and decorate their room or play area with a chick theme this week?

Caterpillar:

How cute is this 3D caterpillar. Can you imagine how simple and easy is it to make one with your kids? As you prepare this caterpillar with paper, you can enforce the quality of the time you are spending with your kids by telling them the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Dog:

I chose for you this slinky dog made by “Arty Crafty Kids” for the wealth of learnings kids can benefit from. Not only kids will develop their fine motor skills and strengthen their fingers muscles, but they will also learn about colors, as well as about the face and body parts. How about you speak to your kids about the loyalty of a dog! Can you imagine what a powerful lesson you will be giving them?

Fish:

I love working with my kids on under the sea themes. It is a different world and there are many crafts that we can do under this theme. Fish craft ideas can include cutting, folding, painting, and so on. Hence, they not only help develop kids’ motor skills but enhance their creative skills at the same time.

Butterfly:

How cure is this butterfly? It is one of the preferred paper craft ideas for kids that we do at home. It is made solely from paper and glue. But you can improvise and recycle the toilet paper roll to create the body of this butterfly. Not only your kids will develop their craft skills in cutting and pasting and, but they will also value the importance of recycling and preserving nature.

Bee:

One of the funniest craft ideas is the use of paper plates. Here is an amazing bee craft idea done by Non-Toy Gifts. A very simple and creative bee craft that suits kids from 2 to 5 years old. Moreover, it serves as an amazing craft that falls under the spring theme, animals theme, or yellow color theme for kids.

Ladybird: 

Who doesn’t find ladybirds cute? Do you remember how many times you created crafts about ladybirds at school? And how many stories featured these cuties? Ladybird crafts are very simple because they require minimal materials. All you need are 2 cardboards, red and black, and you can create as many ladybirds as you want. Moreover, try sticking them to pop sticks and play pretend they are lolly sticks with the kids!

Wild animal craft ideas:

Panda:

Want to reward your kids for nice behavior? Or a new milestone they have reached? Then make them these panda crowns. You can spend some time helping them do this crown themselves. In addition, what a great idea to help them develop their fine motor skills and reward themselves at the end. Superb! 

Elephant:

Elephant may be big and bold, and remain one of the favorite animals for kids. Ask your child to watch a quick scene for an elephant in a circus and see how large is the smile he will draw on his face. Simple paper craft elephant with the plate.

Snake:

This snake papercraft is the preferred one at home. We keep on repeating it for the fun and joy it brings to everyone. Not only it serves as an animal craft, but as an accordion toy as well that can be simple and quickly made. In addition, preparing this snake helps develop fine motor skills for small kids allowing them to work their fingers muscles and strengthen them.

These are 12 out of hundreds of animal paper crafts that you can do with your kids at home. In addition, do not underestimate the importance of organizing such activities with your kids. You will be giving them a golden opportunity to grow and develop their fine motor skills, and sharing with them happy qualitative moments that you will cherish as unforgettable memories as they grow older.

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