Animal Crafts and Learning
Activities for Kids
How to Make Easy, Inexpensive, Animal Crafts and Learning Activities for Children
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ABC Animal Bottle Cap Magnet Craft
What you will need: Plastic caps from milk bottles, pop bottles and various other bottles, acrylic paint, craft foam, tiny googly eyes, low temp. glue gun, and scissors.
How to Make Bottle Cap Magnets:
1. Use the examples above to make your own magnets.
2. Glue large magnets to the inside of the bottle caps so that they are even with the edge of the bottlecap. If the magnets are too small or thin, glue some cardboard to the inside of the bottlecaps and then glue the magnets to the cardboard so they stick out farther. Test your bottle cap magnets to make sure the magnets are strong enough hold the bottle cap to your refrigerator.
3. Paint the bottle caps with acrylic paint. Cut ears, legs, wings, and other features from craft foam and glue them to the caps with a low temp. glue gun.
Use the magnets to help your children review their ABCs, learn to read, and learn more about animals and animal classification.
1. Have your child match up letter magnets with the animal magnets.
2. Collect pictures of animals and other things and have your children place the pictures under the magnets with the same beginning sounds.
3. Find out facts about each animal. Write the facts on small pieces of paper and place each fact sheet under each animal magnets.
4. Write the names of the animals on sheets of paper and review them with your child. If the child learns to read the name of the animal, place the paper with the name under the magnet. Keep reviewing until your child can read all the names.
5. Try to find books in the library that have stories about animals. When you have finished reading a book about a specific animal, let your child place the magnet of the same animal on your refrigerator. Try to read books about all twenty-six animals.
6. Use the bottle cap animals to study the classification of animals.
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Animals of Africa Paper Craft for Kids
 Go on an African Animal Safari. Make these folded paper animals and learn more about each animal. Set up an African habit for your animals and take your friends on a safari. You can be the guide and tell them all about each animal. Go to the African Animal Safari Page for patterns and directions.
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Armadillo
Crafts
Go to the Armadillo Craft Page for patterns and directions.
Bighorn Sheep Crafts for Kids
 Stand-up Bighorn Sheep Craft
Children may need help cutting this pattern out, but they will love coloring it to look like a real bighorn sheep.
This pattern is available to members only. (Available to members only.)
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Bat Crafts and Learning Activities for Kids
 Bat Crafts Including:
Paper Fruit Bat with Moveable Head Craft
Little Brown Bat with Moveable Head Paper Craft
Bat Activity Sheet
Books about Bats
Go to the Bat Craft Page for Bird Crafts.
Bird Crafts
for Kids
 Bird Crafts including: Bird picture that you can glue real leaves to, a bird feeder craft made from paper plates and a Pringle's Potato chip can, a bird made with craft feathers, a duck made from paper plates, raven crafts made from paper, paper plates, black bird puppets, raven cookies, a pink flamingo made from pipe cleaners and pompoms, hen pictures to color and decorate with feathers, a whooping crane craft, a bird puppet, an owl made from a pinecone, a paper plate quail and puppet and more. Go to the Bird Craft Page for Bird Crafts.
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Cat Crafts for Kids
Go to the Cat and Kitten Crafts Page to find these cat crafts and more.
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Camel Crafts for Kids
Camel
in the Sand Picture
  Make a camel
in the sand. Place sand paper underneath the camel picture. Remove
the paper from around the crayons. Place a crayon on its side and
rub over the picture. A sand texture will appear on the paper. Make
sand dunes and other desert features. Experiment with different grits
of sand paper. Click on the link to print out a pattern. This pattern is available to members only.
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Easy Camel Sock Puppet - Go to the Puppets Page for directions and patterns to make this craft.
Cow Crafts for Kids
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"The Cow Jumped
Over the Moon" Paper
Plate Craft |
Cow Sock Beanbag
Craft for Kids |
Paper
Lunch Bag
Cow Puppet |
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Go to the Cow Crafts Page for Directions and Patterns for these Crafts.
Dog Crafts for Kids
Free Stand-up Dog Craft for Kids - The free patterns for these dogs can be found on the ABC, I Believe site. They are also available to members of The Resource Room in the Dog Lesson.
For even more dog crafts and activities go to the Dog Craft Page
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Elephant Crafts
for Kids
 Go to the Elephant Crafts and Activities Page for patterns and ideas.
Egg
Carton Elephant Craft
Tired Elephant Paper Plate Craft
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Frog
Crafts for Kids
 Go
to the Frog Crafts Page. You will find
frog beanbags, frog puppets, and frogs on a lily pad crafts.
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Horse Crafts for Kids
Go to the Horse Craft and Activity Page for directions to these crafts.
Turtle and Tortoise Crafts for Kids
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