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Does your little one have a love for all creatures? Encourage it! We’ve put together a list of all sorts of fun and adorable crafts to help them get to know their favorite animals and learn about new ones! In this blog each craft will come with a fun fact about the animal that you can share as you do the project! These projects are great to do with the family while you share fun facts, show off your best “roar”, and make fun crafts to play with an display around the house!

Happy crafting, animal-lovers!

Pine Cone Owl 

Did you know that a group of owls is called a parliament?!

Found Red Ted Art 

Polar Bear Paper Plate Art 

Interestingly, the polar bear’s coat has no white pigment; in fact, a polar bear’s skin is black and its hairs are hollow!

Found A Dab Of Glue Will Do 

Newspaper Raccoon 

Did you know that their black masks actually help them reduce glare and help them see better? Just like the black tape athletes wear under their eyes!

Found iheartcraftythings

Link Chain Alligator

Alligators cannot digest salt! Therefore they can only live in freshwater environments!

Found YouTube 

Cupcake Liner Lion 

Did you know that lions are the only cats that live in groups?!

Found Raising Little Superheros

Paper Hedgehogs

The hedgehog was not always called a hedgehog. Before this they were called Urchins which led to the naming of Sea Urchins!

Found Easy Peasy and Fun 

Recycled Styrofoam Cup Cow 

The average cow will spend about 8 hours a day eating and will consume about 40 pounds of food in a single day!

Found Kids Activities Blogs 

Pom Pom Bumble Bee 

If the bees nest gets too hot, worker bees post themselves near the entrance and fan the hot air out, like tiny flapping A/C units to keep the hive at 86 degrees Fahrenheit.

Found Molly Moo Crafts 

Paper Octopus 

Octopuses have 9 brains because, in addition to the central brain, each of 8 arms has a mini-brain that allows it to act independently!

Found YouTube 

Popsicle Stick Wolves 

Baby foxes are called pups, kits, or cubs!

Found One Little Project 

Sting Ray Craft

Sting rays swim around while having no bones! they are made up of cartilage! The same bendy material that your nose and ears are made of!

Found Pinterest 

Paper Plate Badger 

Here is a badger! They make their homes by digging tunnels and caves and use grass and leaves for bedding and their home is called a sett!

Found Crafts on Sea 

Bat Toilet Paper Roll 

Bats can at 60 miles per hour! Certain species, such as the Mexican free-tailed bat, can fly even faster at a whooping 100 miles per hour!

Found Easy Peasy and Fun 

Zebra Finger Puppet 

A group of Zebras is called a Dazzle!

Found I Heart Crafty Things 

Koala Craft 

Koalas aren’t actually bears… they’re marsupials!

Found Iheartcraftythings 

Snake Accordion 

Did you know that snakes use their tongues to smell?!

Found Easy Peasy and Fun

Leaping Dolphin 

While most people think of whales and dolphins being two entirely different creatures, dolphins are actually a type of whale!

Found Highlights 

Kangaroo Craft 

Kangaroos can hop around quickly on two legs or walk around slowly on all four, but they can’t walk backwards!.

Found Tinker About 

Vulture Craft 

Vultures are so important for the environment! Their eating habits neutralize lots of harsh bacteria and prevent them from spreading!

Found Red Ted Art 

Quilled Pig Craft

When trained, piglets can learn their names at just two to three weeks old. They can learn to respond when called and learn tricks faster than dogs!

Found Frugal Mom Eh 

Deer Puppet 

Roughly 1 in 30,000 deer is an albino! That means they are all white!

Found Ottawa Mommy Club 

Flamingo Art

Baby flamingos are grey when they are hatched!

Found YouTube

Panda Bear Bookmark

Pandas are certainly cute! They’re also pretty lazy! Their day consists primarily of eating, sleeping, and pooping!

Found Red Ted Art 

Horse Craft 

Horses can sleep lying down and standing up!

Found Funny Crafts 

Elephant Craft 

The deep wrinkles in elephants skin help them to hold water and cool them down!

Found Buggy and Buddy 

Pom Pom Spider 

Certain species of salticids (jumping spiders) can see into spectrums we humans cannot. A few have been shown to be able to see both UVA and UVB light.

Found The Best Idea For Kids 

Hummingbird Craft 

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards!

Found Learn Create Love 

Origami Whale 

A blue whale’s tongue alone weighs as much as an elephant!

Found Red Ted Art 

Paper Fox

Foxes make up to 40 distinct sounds!

Found Our Kid Things 

Puffer Fish Art 

They puff up to about 3 times their normal size when feeling threatened!

Found Crafty Morning 

Handprint Chicken 

Chickens are actually descendants from dinosaurs! Specifically, the Tyrannosaurus rex!

Found Simple Everyday Mom 

Paper Bag Platypus

The animal is best described as a hodgepodge of more familiar species: the duck (bill and webbed feet), beaver (tail), and otter (body and fur).

Found Cook Clean Craft 

Tiger Frame 

Unlike lions, adult tigers often live alone!

Found Preschool Playbook 

Goat Craft

Goats were one of the first animals to be tamed by humans and were being herded 9,000 years ago.

Found Crystal and CO 

Shark Puppets 

Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper because it is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help reduce friction from surrounding water when the shark swims.

Found Pickle Bum 

Paper Roll Giraffe Family 

Giraffe’s spots are like human finger prints, no two are the same!

Found Non-Toy Crafts 

Springy Camel Craft 

The humps on camels back store fat that they can use if food and water were to become scarce!

Found She Knows 

Seal Popsicle Sticks 

Seals prefer cold sea waters and are primarily found in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

Found Craftionary

Butterfly Puppet 

Butterflies taste things with their feet!

Found I Heart Crafty Things

Ostrich Craft 

The flightless ostrich is the world’s largest bird!

Found YouTube

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