3 Easy and Fun Animal Crafts for Kids

Do you have a child with a strong interest in animals? You’ve come to the right place! Here, you’ll discover fun animal crafts to make with your children.

Making crafts with your children strengthens their creative skills. But that’s not the only great thing about crafts!

Crafts are open to all themes, which makes them a flexible but fun activity. If you’re looking for easy and exciting things to do with your critter-loving children, keep reading to discover 5 animal crafts for kids.

1. Paper Plate Jellyfish

For materials, you’ll need:

Paper plate
Tissue paper
Googly eyes
Yarn

For tools, you’ll need:

Scissors
Glue
Hole punch
Black marker

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The instructions are:

Cut up the tissue paper into small squares (If you have young children who aren’t comfortable using scissors yet, have them tear the tissue paper into small pieces instead)
Draw a wavy line at the bottom of the paper plate and cut along the line
Glue tissue paper squares onto the paper plate
Using the hole punch, make several holes along the wavy side of the paper plate
Cut strands of yarn all to the same length, then thread them through the holes and tie them up
Glue googly eyes onto the paper plate and make a mouth using the black marker

2. Small Cup Squirrel

For materials, you’ll need:

Dixie cup
Acrylic paint
Tacky glue or low temp glue gun
Medium googly eyes
Pink pom-pom
Black marker
Scotch tape

Instructions:

Paint the Dixie cup with white acrylic paint and let dry
Paint another color of acrylic over the white, leaving a strip of white for the face and belly
Cut a strip of construction paper for the tail
Roll the strip of paper the whole length down
Cut out two triangles from the same construction paper to use as ears
Use tacky glue or a low temp glue gun (with supervision and caution) to adhere the ears to the cup
Glue on googly eyes underneath
Cut out a pair of feet from construction paper and use a black marker to draw on claws, then secure them using tacky glue or a low temp glue gun
Glue the pom-pom on under the eyes for a nose
Draw a mouth using a black marker and secure the tail to the back of the cup using glue or Scotch tape

3. Buzzing Bees

For materials, you’ll need:

Wine cork
Yellow, pink, and green craft paint
Small white canvas
Paintbrush
Black marker

Instructions:

Dip the cork into a “flower” color paint and stamp four circles into a flower shape
Wash the cork and dip into the yellow paint, then stamp in a round shape for the bees
Paint a green flower stem for the flowers on the canvas
Once the paint is dry, use a black marker to add stripes, a face, antennae, and wings to the bees