120+ Easy Handprint Crafts for Preschool & Elementary Kids (Free Printable Templates)

Looking for easy handprint crafts kids will actually enjoy, without complicated prep? This collection brings together 130+ fun handprint craft ideas, all designed to be simple to make and quick to set up, with printable patterns included. Every craft in this collection includes a free printable template.

These activities are best for preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary children (ages 3–8). Most take 10–20 minutes and use everyday supplies like paper, glue, and scissors, making them a great fit for busy parents and teachers.

Whether you’re planning a classroom art project, a holiday activity, a themed unit, or a rainy-day craft at home, you’ll find plenty of options here. The ideas span animals, seasons, holidays, and playful character designs, so it’s easy to match a craft to your theme. Use the table of contents below to jump straight to what you need.

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Use the links below to quickly jump to animals, holidays, seasonal crafts, and more.

Handprint Animals

Animal-themed designs are one of the most flexible handprint craft categories and work especially well for zoo units, animal studies, and everyday classroom crafting.

All handprint crafts on this page include free printable templates.

Alt text: Collage of colorful paper handprint crafts arranged in a grid, showing animals such as birds, walruses, an eagle, a sloth, a polar bear, and chickens. Each craft uses hand shapes as wings, bodies, or limbs on a light background.

These popular animal handprint crafts are a great place to start, or scroll down to browse by animal type.

Good fit for: animal theme units, literacy tie-ins with animal books, and classroom art centers.

Featured Handprint Animal Crafts

Farm Animals

Forest & Woodland Animals

Jungle & Zoo Animals

Winter Animals

Birds

Dinosaurs & Fantasy Creatures

Pets

Christmas Handprint Crafts

Collage of holiday-themed paper handprint crafts arranged in a grid, including an elf, reindeer, Santa, a snowman, an angel, and other festive characters. Each figure is made from colorful paper hand shapes on a light background.

These festive projects focus on classic winter characters and seasonal designs kids love making during December classroom activities and holiday craft days.

Good fit for: December classroom parties, winter-themed lesson units, and holiday craft stations.

Halloween Handprint Crafts

Collage of Halloween-themed paper handprint crafts arranged in a grid, including characters such as Frankenstein, a bat, a mummy, a vampire, a witch, a monster, and bubbling cauldrons. Each figure is made from colorful paper hand shapes on a light background.

These designs lean toward playful and silly rather than scary, making them a fun option for October classroom crafts and themed activity days.

Father’s Day Handprint Crafts

These Father’s Day projects use handprint designs kids enjoy making for a special day at home or in the classroom.

Mother’s Day Handprint Crafts

Flower designs, hearts, and fruit themes make these ideas a popular choice for Mother’s Day classroom projects and seasonal home activities.

Spring Handprint Crafts

Collage of colorful paper handprint crafts arranged in a grid, including a carrot, frogs, a smiling Earth with a party hat, a ladybug, bees, a butterfly, a pot of gold with a rainbow, and a bunny in an egg. Each craft uses hand shapes to form animals or objects on a light background.

Springtime designs focus on flowers, insects, Easter, and St. Patrick’s Day ideas that pair naturally with seasonal lessons and classroom displays.

Summer Handprint Crafts

Collage of colorful paper handprint crafts arranged in a grid, including a campfire, flamingo, pirate, pineapples, the Statue of Liberty, sharks, Uncle Sam, and a strawberry. Each figure is created using hand shapes and bright paper on a light background.

Bright colors, ocean animals, and playful themes make these ideas a great fit for warm-weather crafting, summer programs, and end-of-school activities.

Good fit for: summer camps, themed activity days, and casual at-home crafting.

Fall Handprint Crafts

Collage of fall-themed paper handprint crafts arranged in a grid, including corn, an apple, Pilgrims, a tree with falling leaves, scarecrows, a turkey, acorns, and a sailing ship. Each craft is made from colorful paper hand shapes on a light background.

Autumn themes like apples, leaves, pumpkins, and Thanksgiving are featured in this group, making these ideas easy to use throughout early fall.

Character & Story Handprint Crafts

Collage of pop-culture–themed paper handprint crafts arranged in a grid, including characters resembling a small green alien, a blue monster, a bookworm, a princess, a robot, a smiling hand face, an elephant, and a cartoon character. Each figure is made from colorful paper hand shapes on a light background.

This section includes fun handprint crafts inspired by popular characters, storybook themes, and creative designs that don’t fit into a specific season or holiday.

Good fit for: choice-based craft time, character theme days, and activities built around favorite books or shows.

120+ Easy Handprint Crafts for Preschool & Elementary Kids (Free Printable Templates)