We’re really excited to share fun and jungle safari character themed friends just in time for summer.

These characters are really great for any time of year, but especially when the weather is crummy outside.

These savannah character crafts are a great way to shorten screen time and build their fine motor skills by practicing with safety scissors.

Kids of all ages love doing cut and paste craft and who doesn’t love classic safari animals characters?

Mom loves it too, especially since there’s little prep time with these safari adventures.

This entire set is perfect for making wonderful memories together as they are or make them extra special with our fun craft list to really make these cute animals pop with lots of fun.

The best part is that they’re easy enough for kindergartners, toddlers and preschoolers, yet even older kids will have fun building safari and jungle animals together.

These are especially fun alternatives to preschool worksheets!

Printable Safari Animal Theme Crafts

There are so many ways you can celebrate and spend quality time with your little ones while getting creative.

Great Ideas for Using Safari Animal Printable Templates:

These printable jungle animal character crafts are a fun way to share the love with your own children or in your classroom without much prep.

Here are some fun ways to use these adorable animals:

Safari Adventure Time

Once you and your little ones are done putting together their safari animals, place each animal around the house or outside.

Then, grab some old binoculars and go on a safari hunt looking for all the animals you all made.

Is the giraffe head poking out of the grass or can your little ones spot the rhino’s nostrils?

They will have so much fun finding all of these wild animals in their own backyard!

Paper Plate Safari Animals

Are you working on the easy elephant craft or getting ready to cut out the lion’s mane? Either way, before you glue the pieces together, glue them to a paper plate instead.

This is already a great craft, but you can make it even better by gluing a Popsicle stick to the back and turning the paper plate safari animals into a fun puppet!

Paper Bag Safari Puppets

Are you all out of paper plates and Popsicle sticks?

Use those leftover lunch bags and glue the safari animals to the paper bag.

These safari craft activities will make for one wild animal puppet show!

Glue on some googly eyes to really bring these safari puppets to life.

Making this free printable monkey craft template is a great way to study the interesting facts about monkeys and learn the letter /M/ sound.

This simple printable lion craft template will inspire you to make a mask or handprint lion craft that kids can enjoy for hours.

Add this basic printable elephant craft template if you plan to study the letter E with your little learners.

Enhance your child’s fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, focus and creativity with this free printable giraffe craft template.

Take an imaginary trip to safari, when you make this simple printable rhino craft template with your little kids.

Learn the facts about hippos or make a safari puppet craft with this preschool printable hippo craft template.

Unleash your kids’ creativity and imagination when making this easy printable crocodile craft template. They can turn this into a crocodile craft that kids can enjoy.

Let your kids enjoy the process of coloring, cutting and gluing the pattern of this free printable leopard craft template.

This simple printable tiger craft template is a fun way to teach the letter T to your toddler, preschooler or kindergartener.

This adorable printable zebra craft template is perfect to teach children about safari animals while improving their fine-motor skills.

Kaitlen D.

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