Whether you’re exploring the great outdoors or learning about birds, this craft will make you the talk of the flock.

Get your kids excited to soar into creativity with our eagle headband craft! The majestic eagle is a symbol of strength and freedom, and this headband will inspire imaginative play and storytelling. 

Be sure to check out more headband crafts to encourage your kids to craft and use their imaginations!

American Eagle Kids’ Craft

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Use our free template to make this craft even easier. You’ll just need a few supplies like colored paper, scissors, and glue to get the kids started. 

Kids will have their own feathered friend perched on their heads when they complete this craft, so let them spread their wings and let their creativity take flight with this eagle headband!

Supplies

• Colored cardstock or construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Markers or crayons (if using the color in version)
• Tape
• Eagle template (enter your email in the form to get the template)

Directions

Download the eagle template, print, and cut out the pieces you need.

Begin by gluing the beak to the middle of the head, slightly below the eyes.

Take the head and glue it to the headband base.

Finish up by taping the extenders on both sides of the headband base.

Animal Ideas For Kids

We have lots of animal crafts and activities that will bring the animal kingdom to life for kids of all ages.

These activities are sure to ignite a love for all creatures great and small while getting some learning in, too! Check out some of our favorites below so the kids can begin their wild adventures!

Animal Books For Kids

Want to create a whole unit study around these fox coloring pages? If so, we have some great ideas to get your started!

Below are some of our favorite forest animal books for kids. Grab them from the library or add them to your home collection.

The Kissing Hand – This sweet book will not only have kids captivated, but it may also help with separation anxiety. We definitely recommend adding this one to your collection!

Peek-a-Flap Who – This board book is great for toddlers all the way up to kindergarten children. All kids love lifting the flaps, but there are also little facts about the animals in the forest.

Over in the Forest – We love this book for introducing kids to forest animals. Find the hidden animals, learn about forest animals, and discover baby animal names.

Animal Crafts For Kids

Crafting opens a world of wonder and discovery for children. It’s an opportunity for little hands to explore their creativity, develop fine motor skills, and unleash their imagination.

Through crafting, kids are able to express their emotions, build confidence, and boost problem-solving abilities while also using patience and perseverance.

Crafting also promotes relaxation, self-confidence in creating something unique, and a love for the arts. The benefits of children crafting are numerous, so let the crafting adventures begin! We’ll get you started with some fun animal crafts below.

Paper Bag Owl Craft for Kids – Let the crafting fun take flight with this fun and delightful owl craft! Kids will make their own owls by cutting, gluing, and decorating their paper bags with our free template. This is a great craft to encourage imaginative play in kids with their new puppets!

Moose Handprint Craft – This craft combines the fun of handprint art with a majestic moose! Kids will love tracing their hands, cutting, and gluing to bring their moose creation to life. This adorable keepsake will encourage your child’s imagination to roam wild!

Paper Plate Skunk Craft – Let’s make a skunk that’s too cute to resist out of an everyday paper plate! This fun and easy project will have kids transforming a paper plate with paint and our free template. 

Bear Craft – This craft is inspired by the beloved book, Going on a Bear Hunt! Kids are able to immerse themselves in the story or learn more about bears or the letter B with this fun bear craft! Grab our free printable to make craft time bear-y fun!

Animal Activities For Kids

Introduce your little ones to the wonders of animals with our animal do-a-dot printables! These engaging worksheets feature various animals for kids to color in using dot markers.

With cute illustrations and educational benefits, these printables encourage fine motor skills, counting practice, and letter recognition while sparking curiosity about the animal kingdom. Break out the dot markers for the dotting fun to begin!

These fox coloring pages feature adorable fox illustrations that are waiting to be brought to life with vibrant colors.

Perfect for quiet and creative moments, these coloring pages offer relaxation and artistic expression while also practicing reading a simple sentence of what the fox is doing on each page. Kids’ imaginations can run wild with these foxy coloring adventures!

Inspire a love of learning with these preschool alphabet worksheets. These engaging worksheets combine fun and learning to help your preschoolers learn letter recognition and formation.

Colorful animal illustrations are featured on each letter maze where kids will make their way through the maze by finding all the letters the animal represents.

Just like how we feel refreshed after a long nap, so do hibernating animals! Kids can learn more about animals that hibernate with this hibernating animals activity pack.

Filled with printable worksheets, coloring pages, and puzzles, this activity pack introduces children to the concept of hibernation in a fun and interactive way. They’ll be able to use their minds and work on fine motor skills at the same time with these sheets.

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Ideas For Kids

Eagle Headband Craft Template