These crafts feature many different types of animals!
The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc. See a page about color mixing to see how to combine paint to make all the colors of the rainbow.
Bird Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple animal crafts with things found around the house.
Butterfly and Caterpillar Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple crafts with things found around the house.
Cat Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple animal crafts with things found around the house.
Dinosaur Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple dinosaur crafts with things found around the house.
Diorama Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple crafts with things found around the house.
Dog Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple animal crafts with things found around the house.
Farm Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful farm-related crafts with things found around the house.
Fish Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple crafts with things found around the house.
Frog Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple animal crafts with things found around the house.
Insect Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple crafts with things found around the house.
Ladybug Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple animal crafts with things found around the house.
Mammal Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple animal crafts with things found around the house.
Ocean Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple crafts with things found around the house.
Pig Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple animal crafts with things found around the house.
Simple-to-make Puppets and Marionettes for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple crafts with things found around the house.
Spider Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple animal crafts with things found around the house.
Whale and Dolphin Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple crafts with things found around the house.
Miscellaneous Animal Crafts
This simple-to-make alligator is a cute construction-paper craft that can also be used as a card.
Make cute, fuzzy, bendable, magnetic animals and people.
Make a dancing paper lion or dragon toy for Chinese New Year.
Make egg carton animals with things found around the house.
Forest Diorama Craft.
These creepy bat clips are Halloween decorations that can be placed all over the house.
In this craft page, learn how to make a cute paper reindeer from your child’s footprint and handprints.
This cute construction-paper turkey craft is made from your child’s handprints and footprints.
It’s easy to make this Earth Day “Litter Bug” craft from an egg carton section together with found objects.
Make marvelous masks. Print out and color a cat, lion, koala, robot, or dog mask.
In this craft, print and color a paper mitten, then fill it with forest animals from the printout.
Build an Ocean Diorama, an ocean scene in a box, with sharks and other fish, whales, seaweed, and corals.
Simple Paper Bag Puppets to make.
This craft shows how to make a reindeer puppet using a paper lunch bag; it has antlers made from handprints.
Paper Finger Puppets: Your fingers are the legs of these simple paper puppet. You can make the entire cast of a nursery rhyme or fairy tale in just a few minutes.
Put this cute papier-mâché octopus craft on a table or hang it from the ceiling with fishing line to make an ocean-theme decoration.
Make our piggy bank craft using a balloon, an egg carton, newspaper, flour-water glue, and paint.
This cute Thanksgiving turkey craft is made a pine cone and construction paper.
This fun craft shows you how to make a cute rabbit mask out of paper plates.
These really ridiculous animal paperweights are easily made from painted rocks.
This fun craft is a paper snake spiral that’s easy to make and to display.
Make a paper tangram puzzle (‘seven clever pieces’) for Chinese New Year.
This cute construction paper Thanksgiving craft is a turkey that shows what your child is thankful for.
In this craft, make a lady and the animals she ate – from the story, “The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”.
Make a Totem Pole craft from a paper towel tube. Totem poles are made by the Tlingit Indians of the Pacific Northwest.
In this crafts page, make cute animals out of paper hearts. These are great Valentine’s Day decorations.