This easy paper kindergarten heart turtle craft printable is an excellent addition to my other heart shaped animal crafts. Your kids will have a blast creating their very own heart turtle!

This easy printable art project is fun for all ages and could be an option for your family night to encourage creativity and laughter.

If you’re not sure how to incorporate this preschool heart turtle craft paper plate printable into your daily life, then consider reviewing some of my ideas below.

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Free Printable Cut and Paste Heart Turtle Craft

Ideas for Preschool Heart Turtle Craft Printable

1. The Letter T

Use my heart turtle craft printable as part of your letter recognition studies. This preschool printable tutorial will show you how to create a heart shaped turtle craft.

Once created you can have your preschoolers learn how to trace and write an uppercase T and lowercase t. This will help your preschoolers connect the dots between T is for turtle and what a T looks like during reading sessions.

2. Heart Shaped Crafts

As with most of my heart shaped animals crafts, this tissue paper heart turtle craft can be used during your heart shaped animal crafts crafty morning time.

Whether you opt to use this turtle, a penguin, paper owls, or other animal craft options this template for kids will provide your family with plenty of art time together.

3. Animals Education

I love using free printable animal templates to educate kids about the world around them. You can incorporate my easy heart turtle craft template into your animals’ education unit at daycare or home.

Using art projects as part of your animal education unit you’ll find that your preschoolers are more engaged. This helps encourage your preschoolers to have a love of the world around them and a desire to learn more about animals!

4. Paper Plate Crafts

I don’t know about you, but I simply love using my simple mom crafts to make paper plate art projects. This animal template toddler craft can be part of your paper plate and construction paper crafts day.

Using my candy kids crafty heart turtle craft printable, you’ll find that this template is a simple way to encourage kids to have a love of art.

5. Bible Lesson

God sure does give us a lot of marvelous creatures to see and observe, doesn’t he? While making this cute turtle craft, explain to your kids how important it is to be thankful to God for all that He provides to us.

We can do this in prayer, expressing our gratitude to one another verbally or doing something nice for someone else. Think of all the wonderful qualities God has shown to us in His spirit.

In Galatians 5:22, Paul is expressing what qualities God has and can be shown. “On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,..”

You could ask your little ones, “Using these qualities, how can you show that you are thankful to God for what He has blessed us with?” One example could be by showing patience for things that we do not have yet.

By being patient, we can fully appreciate what we have now and thankful that we can trust in God’s promise for the future.

Heart Turtle Craft Supplies Needed:

Card Stock Paper or Construction Paper
Scissors
Glue
Googly Eyes
Printable Heart Turtle Template (found at the bottom of the page)

Whether you opt to use this preschool heart turtle craft printable for animal education, letter recognition, paper plate crafts, or heart shaped crafts day, I’m confident that your preschoolers will have a blast making their paper heart turtle craft today!

How to Make a Paper Heart Turtle

After you have printed your cute heart turtle template, start by cutting out all of the shapes. If you decide to print the black and white version, be sure to color first and then cut out all the shapes.

Then glue on your heart turtle’s feet.

After that, glue on your heart turtle’s head.

Finally, glue stagger the smaller hearts on to your turtle craft’s shell.

Write a cute little message like, “Get well soon!” or, “Have a great day!” to give as a fun greeting card. Be sure to check out all our animal puns for some great ideas.

More Options to Choose:

You can print the blank version and trace the cut outs on card stock paper for a sturdier turtle,
Print the color version for a simple and easy rainy day craft or,
Print the blank version and use it as a fun coloring sheet activity and then glue the pieces together.