Put a fun spin on traditional painting by using a fork! It makes a great texture on a painting and it’s something different that kids will love to try.

Kids can spread their wings and get creative with this fork painted eagle craft! Your little artists will love this painting project where they can also learn more about these majestic birds. 

This is a great project to incorporate when kids are learning about animals, birds, or even as a patriotic craft. 

Ready to take flight? Download the free template and gather up a few basic crafting supplies along with a fork to get started on this easy and unique craft. Keep reading below for our easy to follow instructions and your little ones will be painting an eagle masterpiece in no time.

Kids can learn and discover even more animals with these animal crafts for kids. There’s ideas for farm animals, jungle animals, forest animals, and more!

Bald Eagle Art Project

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Supplies

• Fork
• Marker
• White Paint
• Colored cardstock or construction paper
• Glue
• Scissors
• Eagle template (click the “click here to get this freebie” image at the end to open the form)

Directions

Start by downloading the eagle template and printing it out. Once you have the template printed, gather the materials needed for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this eagle template to life!

First, guide your kids to glue the body onto the bottom of the background paper. It’s like laying the foundation for our majestic eagle to take flight on our canvas.

Next, squirt some white and light gray paint on a paper plate, then start dipping the fork in the paint. Use the fork to stamp all around the outline of the eagle’s head. There’s no right or wrong; just stamp until your child likes the way the eagle’s head looks. Let it dry completely before moving on.

Our eagle needs eyes to see the world. Help your kids place the eyes in the middle of the head, one on each side, and secure them in place with glue.

Guide your kids to attach the beak between and slightly over the bottom of the eyes.

Attach the cheeks below and slightly outside the eyes. These details are what give our eagle its distinct features and charm.

With a marker, help them draw eyebrows on both sides to frame the face beautifully. It’s like adding the finishing touches to our feathered friend’s expressive face.

To finish our art project, encourage your children to draw the brown feathers of the eagle on the body.

Isn’t this such a fun craft to make?!

Ideas For Kids

Animal Ideas For Kids

Let’s get wild and learn about the animal kingdom! Kids can learn about animals great and small with our fun hands-on crafts and educational activities. Included are activities featuring a tiny mouse to a big elephant that will keep them engaged and learning for hours.

Read on below for some ideas for books, crafts, and activities featuring different animals. Be sure to bookmark the ones that your kids will be excited to work on!

Animal Books For Kids

The Fascinating Animal Book For Kids is a great book for curious kiddos! Find facts on almost any animal your child is learning about. This is a great resource to have in your home library collection.

The View At The Zoo is a silly book about all the animals at the zoo. When the people come to take a look at the animals, they see all sorts of sights! But, there’s a twist to this book that you have to read for yourself and laugh about!

Giraffes Can’t Dance is a sweet and fun book about Gerald the Giraffe. He can’t dance, but doesn’t stop trying! He finally finds his own rhythm when he meets an unlikely friend.

Paper Animal Crafts

Eaglet Craft – Encourage your little ones to spread their wings and get creative making this adorable eaglet craft. This hatching baby eagle is a great way for kids to learn about the wonders of new life and spring. 

Toilet Paper Roll Mouse Craft – Recycle a common item into a cute little mouse! This project is a great addition to learning about the letter M, farm animals, or as a book companion craft. It comes with a free printable template that makes it easy to make with preschool to elementary aged kids.

Easy Fox Craft – For an easy craft that’s just as cute as it is fun, download the template to make this fox! Your kids will be so excited to show off this adorable fox when they make their newest paper craft.

Quail Handprint – This quirky keepsake will be a hit with the kids! It’s always fun to see their handprints become different things, and with this craft, they’ll make a quail! Use this fun craft when talking about animals, birds, or the letter Q!

Animal Activities For Preschoolers

Your preschoolers and pre-K kids will have lots of fun learning with our engaging zoo animal worksheets! They’ll complete activities covering letter recognition, counting, memory games, patterns, simple addition, handwriting, and more.

These 24 pages of educational printables promise hours of entertainment and skill-building. From mazes to strip puzzles, counting to handwriting practice, these zoo themed worksheets are a great way to explore foundational concepts while encouraging a love for learning.

Make learning the ABCs fun with these free forest animal alphabet maze worksheets! This set includes four letter mazes including W for Wolf, B for Bird, H is for Hedgehog, and a S is for Skunk maze. Each maze introduces a different forest animal, where kids will color in the path of the corresponding letter.

This activity is a good way to develop fine motor skills, letter recognition, and problem solving skills.

Your little ones will have big fun with these elephant dot to dots! As kids connect the dots, they’ll learn counting and sequential order while also improving hand-eye coordination and motor skills. Once they get done connecting all the dots, they can add a splash of color to the page.

Grab some crayons or markers and download these free worksheets for some fun and creative learning.

Instead of going on a long trip to the jungle, discover some new animals by checking out these jungle animals coloring pages. These fun coloring sheets will introduce preschoolers to various animals that call the jungle their home like playful monkeys and colorful toucans.

Coloring is a fun and creative way for kids to learn about these different animals, practice their fine motor skills, observation skills, identify colors, and even notice details and patterns on the pages.

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