11 Zoo Craft For Kids

11 Zoo Craft For Kids

Kids love animals and especially love doing craft projects inspired by their favorite zoo animals. 

If you’re looking for some fun animal crafts to do with your kids this week, look no further than the list below!

Felt Lion

In this animal craft for kids, you’ll learn how to make a felt lion. You’ll need.

• felt in black, brown, and white (2 shades of each color)
• white glue
• scissors
• needle and thread
• googly eyes (optional)

To make the body of the lion: Cut out two large ovals from black felt. These will be its legs. Cut out two smaller ovals from brown felt; these will be its paws. Cut out another small oval from white felt; this will be its tail. 

Sew all of these pieces together using needle and thread until you have one full body shape with arms, legs, and head attached where they belong! 

Next, let’s add some details by cutting out a face shape from black felt then sewing it onto your lion’s head with a needle and thread after attaching googly eyes if desired! Finally, sew on a white piece for his mane then we’re done!

Lion and Zebra Craft

Materials

• Lion and Zebra Craft (see below)
• Glue, Scissors, Stapler/Staples, or Tape

Instructions.

Cut out the shapes of the lions and zebras. You can either use a paper cutter or scissors. 

The pieces should be larger than your child’s hand so that they can fit on their head nicely. 

Place both sets of animal pieces together and staple them together in the middle (if you don’t have a stapler then just use tape). 

 Ask your child to decorate their animal with markers, glitter glue or stickers if they wish! 

 Once finished ask them to put their mask on – it’s now time for some fun!

Monkey Stick Puppet

Materials.

• A stick
• Pipe cleaners in varying colors
• Paper in varying colors (for the face)

Steps to create your monkey puppet, Grab a stick and cut it down the center so that you have two equal parts of equal length.

Take one of these pieces and wrap a pipe cleaner around it for each arm and leg, leaving some excess at the top and bottom of each piece so that you can bend them into shape later on.

Wrap another pipe cleaner around this section, but this time twist it with all four limbs to make arms, legs, hands, and feet! Repeat this process on both pieces of wood to make two monkeys! (If needed use tape or glue sticks to hold everything together.)

Cut another piece of paper slightly larger than half the size of your monkey’s body—this will be his face! Fold over one side by half an inch so that when unfolded it creates an edge similar to what we see above.

this way our puppet will be able to see out through its mouth hole! Now fold everything else up towards where those eyes might go if there was actually someone inside making decisions about what they wanted out here on earth (or whatever). ‘

This will give us room underneath our head where we can stuff cotton balls or something similar before moving on to step 5 below: stuffing both halves with crinkle paper balls—these are great because not only do they make noise when shaken around but also provide comfort when touching against ones skin/face/whatever else happens when holding onto something like this without putting any effort whatsoever into doing so…

Paper Bag Giraffe Puppet

Materials to make a paper bag giraffe puppet.

• Paper bag
• Googly eyes
• Pipe cleaners (petals)
• Craft glue, crayons, markers, stickers, glitter, buttons, etc.

DIY Elephant Craft

In this craft, you will need.

• A paper plate
• Construction paper in your choice of color
• Glue (or glue stick)
• Black marker or black paint to make the eyes and nose on the elephant. 

Do not use regular markers because they will bleed through the paper plate when it’s wet with glue. If you do not have any black marker or paint, then just skip this step!

First, cut out two circles from the construction paper that are about twice as big as your paper plate is wide. And cut a circle out of another piece of construction paper half as big as your first two circles together but bigger than your first two circles separately. 

Attach them by gluing them all together along their edges so that they look like one giant circle! If you want to make two eggs for an elephant baby instead, repeat these steps with smaller pieces and stick them onto either side of the larger piece already attached to the egg shape (see picture).

Next 2 1/2 minutes until dry before peeling off the backing sheet carefully so as not to damage the design on the front side, may take longer depending upon how thickly coated area was painted with an adhesive-coated sheet before applying the patterned sheet; store flat between sheets of plastic wrap until ready use again later…

Paper Plate Elephant Craft

• Paper plates
• Paper (construction paper and/or scrapbooking paper)
• Crayons or markers (depending on the age of your child and their skill level)
• Googly eyes (optional)
• Pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, cotton balls or pom poms (optional)

Handprint Hippo Art Project for Kids

use a black marker to draw the outline of a hippo’s head on your paper.

Use pink, white, and brown markers to draw the eyes, ears, and nose as shown in this picture.

Easy Toilet Paper Roll Turtle Craft for Preschoolers

What You Need.

• Toilet paper roll
• Paint
• Pipe cleaners (or any kind of wire)
• Googly eyes
• Glue (for small children, use a glue stick instead of tacky glue)

Step 1 

Cut the toilet paper roll in half and paint each end in different colors.

Step 2 

Wrap one end with pipe cleaners and then add googly eyes to it.

Step 3 

Glue on any other decorations you want like feathers or leaves!

Crocodile Headband – WomansDay.com

These fun headbands are a great way to make your little one look fantastic. They’re easy to 

make and can be used for many different types of parties, including Halloween or birthdays. 

It’s also a great way to learn about animals and what they look like in their natural habitat. It also teaches children about the Nile river, which is where crocodiles call home.

• Materials
• Paper towel roll
• Scissors
• Paint (red and green)

Snake Art 

Fingerprint Snake Art Project for Kids (on One Time Through) – WomansDay

Materials

• Craft glue
• Paint in various colors
• Paintbrush (optional)
• Markers or crayons in desired colors

Make A Chameleon Paper Cup Puppet 

Directions. Cut the bottom of a paper cup so that it sits flat on a surface when you have finished cutting off half of it (see photo above). 

Then, cut off two sides of the cup and make small slits on each side to form arms (you may want to use tweezers for this part).

Finally, draw eyes and add hair with a marker or pen if desired! When your puppet is complete, you can use it in several ways.

it makes an adorable hand puppet if you coil up some yarn around its neck folded up into a triangle shape, it becomes a toy snake or unfolded into its original shape, it makes an excellent lampshade!

Your kids will love doing these crafts with you!

Crafts are an excellent way to spend quality time with your child, and also a great learning experience! Children learn by doing. 

Encourage them to create their own masterpieces that they can brag about or hang on the fridge for everyone to see. Crafts are also a fun way for kids to learn about the world around them. 

For example, when making a craft related to animals at the zoo, kids will learn what each animal looks like and what it eats. This will help them understand more about animals in general and help them develop their creativity as well!

Conclusion

We hope you’ve enjoyed this list of 11 zoo crafts for kids. We love to share our ideas with other parents and teachers, so if you have any questions about these crafts or any others that we haven’t covered, please leave a comment below!