These adorably cute woodland animal crafts for kids of all ages are easy paper crafts that are perfect for a unit of learning about forest animals. Includes directions to make raccoon, fox, deer, and bear crafts.
To make these fun forest animal crafts you will need construction paper in different colors, a marker or crayon, scissors, and a glue stick. Most of these materials you probably already have at home.
These sweet woodland animal crafts use the same circular bowl base as many other fun animal crafts on the site. For more fun animal crafts be sure to also check out these zoo animal or farm animal crafts for kids.
Easy Woodland Animal Crafts Tips
*If making this project with younger toddler or preschool-age children you can choose to prep the construction paper pieces ahead of time for them. Then they will just have to glue them all together.
*If completing this project with older children such as kindergarten and up you can instruct them on what size and shapes to make the different pieces and then they can draw, cut, and glue them together.
*To make the circular base for these crafts all you will need is a child-sized bowl. Just trace the outside of the bowl and you have the perfect size and shape base for all 4 of these fun woodland animals crafts.
*Make one of these crafts or make them all. Once finished they can be glued to popsicle sticks and turned into puppets, glued to a construction paper base with a writing prompt, or just left as is.
4 Adorable Paper Woodland Animal Crafts for Kids
Materials
- Orange, white, brown, and black construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Black crayon or marker
- Optional child sized bowl for tracing circles
Construction Paper Deer Craft Directions
1. Using a bowl, trace a large circle onto brown paper and cut it out.
2. Cut out two smaller brown ovals and glue them onto the large brown circle for the ears.
3. Cut out two smaller pink half-oval shapes and glue them to the insides of the ears.
4. Cut out two white antler shapes (or 3 thin rectangular paper strips to glue together to make antler shapes) and glue them to the top of the deer’s head in between the ears.
5. Cut out 4-7 small white dots and glue them to the top of the middle of the deer’s head.
6. Cut out two white circles for the eyes.
7. Draw on the blacks of the eyes, the nose, and the deer’s mouth to complete it.
Construction Paper Raccoon Craft Directions
1. Using a bowl trace a large white circle and cut it out.
2. Cut out two rounded triangle shapes from white paper for the ears and glue them to the top of the raccoon’s head.
3. Cut out two smaller black triangle shapes and glue them to the insides of the white ear shapes.
4. Cut out 2 large black ovals with squared edges and glue them where the raccoon’s eyes will be. If needed trim the bottoms of them so that they line up with the edges of the rounded circle.
5. Cut out two small white circles for the raccoon’s eyes and glue them inside of the black oval cheeks.
6. Cut out a rounded triangle shape for the raccoon’s nose and glue it towards the bottom half of the white circle.
7. Draw on the mouth and the insides of the eyes to finish off the raccoon.
Construction Paper Fox Craft Directions
1. Use a bowl to trace a large circle onto orange construction paper and cut it out.
2. Use the same bowl to trace a circle on white construction paper and cut it out. Cut the top of the circle down about an inch or two and into a heart shape leaving the bottom of the circle as is. Glue the white heart-shaped semi-circle onto the top of the orange circle.
3. Cut out two orange triangles for the ears and glue them onto the top.
4. Cut out two white traingles for the insides of the ears and glue them onto the orange part of the ears.
5. Cut out a rounded black triangle for the nose and glue it to where the white and orange paper meet by the middle of the heart shape.
6. Cut out two white circles for the eyes and glue them to the middle of the orange paper.
7. Draw on the blacks in the middle of the eyes and the mouth to finish your fox.
Construction Paper Bear Craft
1. Trace and draw a large circle onto brown construction paper and cut it out.
2. Draw a medium sized black oval onto construction paper and cut it out. Glue it onto the middle of the brown construction paper head.
3. Cut out two semi circle shapes from brown paper and glue them onto the top of the head circle.
4. Cut out two smaller black semi circle shapes and glue them to the insides of the brown semi circles to make the ears.
5. Cut out a rounded triangle from brown paper for the nose and glue it to the middle of the black oval.
6. Cut out two small white circles for the eyes and glue them above the black oval.
7. Draw on the blacks of the eyes with a black marker. Use a white or black crayone or marker and draw on the mouth.
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