13 Zoo Animal Crafts Ideas

It’s a hot summer day and you want to take your kids somewhere fun.

You can’t afford the entrance fee for the zoo, but you decide instead to do an activity with your kids that remind them of the zoo. Here are 13 different activities involving animals!

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Paper Plate Lion

You will need

A paper plate
Markers or crayons

To make a lion craft out of a paper plate, draw the face, mane, and claws with markers. You can also use crayons to color your lion’s craft. While you’re at it, color in the tail and ears too!

Recycled Penguin

Materials

Recycled plastic bottle
Blue, white and black paint
Paintbrush
Paper (for the penguin’s body)
Hole punch or another shaped hole-making tool (for the penguin’s eyes)
Small piece of rope or string (for making a beak)

Toilet Roll Elephant

Take an empty toilet roll and stick it on the wall with a glue stick.

Use a paintbrush to paint an elephant shape on the toilet roll, making sure that it is not too big or too small. The size of your elephant should be proportional to its height compared to others in its herd and family group, otherwise, it can’t fit through the entrance gate at your zoo!

Let dry overnight before removing it from the wall

Paper Plate Monkey Craft Idea

Materials

paper plate
paint or craft foam in the color of your choice
glue (hot glue is best)
googly eyes
craft foam in any shape you like, such as an oval or circle to make a snout, or even triangles to make ears. You can use these as templates for cutting out pieces of cardboard tubes that can be glued onto the plate. Cut one end of a pipe cleaner at an angle then bend it over to form a tail. You may also want to include buttons for eyes and ribbons for tails or hair.

Toilet Paper Roll Giraffe

Toilet paper rolls
Paper
Glue
Scissors
Paint (optional) and paintbrush (optional)
String or ribbon (optional) and tape measure or ruler to cut the string/ribbon in lengths of your choosing 7. Googly eyes 8. Optional: foam stickers, felt, craft foam, fabric scraps

Fish Bowl Turtle Craft

Materials

Fish Bowl
Water
Tissue Paper
Paint (Optional)

To Make, This craft is super-duper and easy to make. First, you need to collect the following materials. a fish bowl, water, tissue paper, and paint.

If you decide to use the tissue paper technique then it would be a good idea to have some washable markers on hand so that your kids can decorate their turtle in addition to gluing it onto the turtle’s shell.

The last thing that you will need is plastic animals such as frogs and turtles which can be purchased at any toy store or online shops like Amazon or eBay. You will also need scissors, tape, and glue sticks for this project as well as a plastic spoon for stirring up those noodles!

Handprint Gorilla

What You Need. A brown paper lunch bag (or any other brown bag). Paint, markers, and crayons to decorate the bag.

How to Make It

Inflate your balloon and then put it into a brown lunch bag so that it looks like a gorilla face.

Cut out eyes and nose from black construction paper if you want to add them to your gorilla craft project.

Have fun decorating the rest of your animal with markers, crayons, or stickers!

Seahorse Cup Craft Idea for Kids

Materials

Paper cup
Piece of paper (the color and size depending on which animal you’re making)
Paintbrush, glue stick, stapler, and scissors (to cut out the animal’s shapes)
Marker or pencil to draw your creature’s face (and eyes if it has them) on the piece of paper
Paper clip, paper towel, and pencil for adding details like hair or scales

Zebra Crossing Craft Idea for Kids

This zebra crossing craft is a fun way for kids to learn about traffic signs.

It’s also a great activity for the classroom or at home, since it requires very few materials and can be completed in just minutes.

You’ll need:

Black and white paper (or use colored construction paper)
String or ribbon of your choice (you could also use yarn or twine)

To make this craft, you’ll first need to cut out a zebra shape from black and white paper. You can freehand draw the outline yourself or print out our template here and trace around it onto your pieces of paper before cutting them out.

You may want to laminate these shapes if they’re going into preschoolers’ hands since they will get dirty from all that fingerpainting!

Once you’ve got your zebra cutout ready, then attach one end of string/ribbon onto either side of the nose area with hot glue or super glue so that it forms an X over its forehead when stretched across there—this will serve as our crossing sign!

Leopard Toilet Paper Roll Craft Idea for Kids!

The first step is to use a toilet paper roll to make a leopard. For this craft, we will be using glue and markers to draw spots on the toilet paper roll.

Next, cut out a leopard face from a piece of construction paper or cardstock. You can use your free hand to do this or trace it with your pencil first! After you cut the face out, stick it onto the end of your toilet paper roll craft (which should still be flat), making sure that it is centered so that when you roll up your finished product later it will look good!

Now let’s add eyes and a nose for our animal craft project! Use a black permanent marker or crayon (or both!) to draw these on top of where they belong as shown above in green lines – don’t worry if they’re not perfect because we’ll fix them later! You can also draw some whiskers coming off both sides if you’d like to)

If using crayons instead of sharpies make sure not to press hard so as not to break off any pieces inside; also try wiping away any excess before pasting down onto the surface since wax could leave marks over time especially if used frequently – remember kids’ room toys get Lotsa love)

Lion Cardboard Tube Craft Idea for Kids!

Materials needed A cardboard tube from a paper towel roll or toilet paper roll. You can also buy a new one if you don’t have one already!

Scissors (optional)

Paper for the mane and tail on your lion, crayons (if you want to draw it), paint, glue stick/glue gun, markers (if you want to color in the face), construction paper cut into shapes for eyes, nose, and mouth.

Using your scissors or a knife carefully cut out these pieces: mane (the top part), ears (the bottom parts under that), and feet/claws are optional but fun!.

If you want legs then cut them out at the bottom of the tube too! Now let’s glue those onto our lion!

Then add some details like eyebrows or whiskers by using a marker or crayon pencils if we don’t have any other options available yet because this project is going pretty well so far isn’t it?

Sweet Little Foxy Friend! Craft idea for kids!

Materials

Cardboard tube (use a cereal box)
Brown marker
White paper
Glue
Scissors
Brown paint and paintbrush (for ears)
White paint and paintbrush (for face, mouth, and eyes)

Tape & craft a knife for cutting out the foxes’ mouths, eyes, and tails.

You can also draw these features with markers if you don’t want to cut them out by hand. You could use stickers as well! They’re really easy to apply using just some double-sided tape or a glue stick )

You’ll also need felt for the tail tip, ears and tongue – just cut out rectangles of different sizes depending on what part you’re making. Then add your embellishments like feathers or beads or sequins etc., whatever takes your fancy!

Zoo Keepers Today And Make Some Fun Zoo Animal Crafts

Crafts are a great way to keep kids entertained, creative, active, and learning.This is why we have prepared for you a list of the most enjoyable zoo animal crafts for your little ones.

The first one is an elephant with a cute smile. It’s easy to make and even easier to enjoy!

Next on our list is this cute panda bear that will surely add some color to your home or office!

And finally, no craft collection would be complete without this giraffe made from paper plates!

Conclusion

Well, that’s it from us for now! We hope you enjoyed this collection of Zoo Animal Crafts. We have many more to come, so if you’re looking for a specific animal craft idea just email us and we’ll put it in our diary!