Turn your child’s handprints into a soaring bald eagle with this handprint eagle craft, an easy patriotic activity that’s perfect for your list of animal crafts for kids.

Kids will trace their hands to make the eagle’s wings, then use a simple template and basic paper craft supplies to finish the head, beak, feet, and body.

It’s a fun low-prep craft for preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary kids, with built-in practice for cutting, tracing, gluing, and fine motor skills. Grab the eagle template and follow the step-by-step directions below.

Paper handprint eagle craft with brown handprint wings, a gray head, yellow beak, and yellow feet displayed above a layered sign reading “Paper Handprint Eagle Craft for Forest Animal Learning.” Smaller eagle craft examples, green leaves, pine branches, pinecones, and paper trees decorate the marble-style background.

Good To Know

Activity: Paper eagle craft with handprint wings
Ages: Preschool and elementary kids
Time: 20–25 minutes
Skills: Tracing, cutting, gluing, fine motor practice
Themes: Birds, forest animals, North American animals, 4th of July

Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Glue stick
Scissors
Bald eagle template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)

Directions

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

hand cutting out template from gray paper

First, guide your child to print the template on white cardstock and cut out all the pieces. Trace your child’s hand onto brown paper two times and cut them out.

adult hand tracing child's hand on brown paper

Next, glue the eyes to the head.

hand gluing eye to handprint eagle craft

Place the beak on the right side of the eye, with about half of it hanging off the side and glue it in place.

hand gluing beak to handprint eagle craft

Position the head to the top portion of the middle body and glue it in place.

hand gluing head to handprint eagle craft

Now, help your child to take the tail feathers and glue them to the back and bottom of the eagle’s body.

hand gluing tail feathers to handprint eagle craft

Glue the claws to the front and bottom of the bird’s body.

hand gluing foot to handprint eagle craft for kids

Finally, encourage your child to glue the wings to the back of each side of the eagle’s body, with the fingers pointed outward.

hand gluing handprint wing to handprint eagle craft

That’s all there is to this fun activity! Parents can hang it up on the fridge to proudly display, or teachers can create a patriotic bulletin board for everyone to see.

picture of handprint eagle with leaves scattered around it

Kids’ Animal Books

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.

A completed paper craft of a bald eagle with handprint-shaped brown wings, a yellow beak, and yellow claws, lying flat on a white surface. Green paper leaves are scattered around it for decoration.

Animal Craft Ideas

Alligator Paper Bag Puppet Craft – Your kids will be all smiles with this alligator craft! They’ll love using their imaginations to bring their alligator to life, and you’ll be happy to see them using their fine motor skills to make it and put on their own puppet show.

Bear Craft – This North American animal craft is so simple, that even young kids can make it! All you need is a printer to print out the template, some scissors, and some time!

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Moose Handprint Craft—This simple craft is so much fun. It uses your kid’s hand to make the body of a moose! Don’t worry about getting antlers or eyes right; our free printable template covers all the details. Kids will laugh and have a great time turning their little hands into majestic moose.

Paper Plate Skunk Craft—This skunk craft is not only easy for kids to make but also super cute! You only need a paper plate, some paint, and a few other supplies. Once the paint is dry, your child can add all the details to create their skunk. This is an excellent activity for animal lovers of all ages.

Animal Activities For Kids

Our animal do a dot printables are perfect for learning in a fun and creative way. With this simple activity, kids can use dot markers to complete the animal pictures and also work on letter recognition.

It’s great entertainment for a rainy day; kids will love completing the animal images and learning while they play

These free forest animal I spy printables will keep the kids entertained for hours! Not only can they work on their problem-solving skills and counting, but they’ll also have a wild time hunting for woodland critters. It’s an adventure they won’t forget – the perfect way to bring the outdoors inside and have a roar-some day!

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With these polar bear worksheets, kids can learn about the Arctic animals whiles working on some fundamental skills. Each cool illustration will bring out your kid’s creative side as they finish puzzles, practice handwriting, and more. It’s a fun way to make schoolwork bear-y exciting!

Your little ones can learn their ABCs in an adorable way with these animal alphabet worksheets. Each page features a different animal and the corresponding letter in both uppercase and lowercase. Kids will be quacking up at all the cute critter illustrations while working on their letters.

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Free Eagle Craft Template

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