Animal Crafts and Preschool Inclusion Activities for Schools

Playing pretend with animals is important to early years development. It becomes more complex, and children have the opportunity to act out longer ‘stories’ with more actions when animals become involved. You can extend the developmental fun by having them craft the animals they play with!

Pretend play with animals helps children to work out their place in the world and teach them to show empathy and care for other creatures, this can help to develop their emotional maturity. They can relate animals to characters from books or even their own pets and stuffed animals. This type of creativity, creating their own creatures and playing with them, is also important for preschool inclusion and beyond too.

This kind of crafting is an excellent way for children to express themselves and develop their imagination, creativity and fine motor skills, so let’s get started.

Crafting the animal kingdom

We offer an assortment of animal craft kits and have a carefully chosen range of animal arts and crafts for children with school-based learning in mind. Browse through animal puppets, themed felt packs, paper engineering, and stained glass creatures to find the best products to suit the needs of your child and students while supporting preschool inclusion.

Our wild animal arts and crafts for preschoolers like felt frogs and snake spirals get little ones using materials new to them. We also stock a wide range of different themed animal crafts such as sea animal, zoo animal, jungle animal, and farm animal arts and crafts for preschoolers and primary school children learning different topics in their lessons.

All of our animal arts and crafts projects come with everything you need to make the craft animals with your students so there’s no need to collect extra supplies (unless you want to!). Each paper animal craft comes with pre-cut shapes that can be used without time-consuming cutting out beforehand. Every animal paper craft also comes with clear instructions that teachers can follow and deliver to children.  

Your springboard

Many many moons ago (1973 to be exact) there was a home economics teacher who dreamed of cooking delicious goodies and knitting colourful creations with her students. But with a budget that wouldn’t stretch as far as a ball of wool, that dream dwindled. 

That teacher was Marie, our grandmother, and she decided to create a place where teachers, parents and families could get the supplies they actually wanted and in the right budget. That’s where Springboard Supplies came from. 

Providing you with the resources and supplies you actually want, not what manufacturers think you may need, is in our family. We’re committed to listening to teachers and parents who provide feedback so that we can offer what you really need. Our job is to truly understand the landscape in which we operate, and reflect your needs in our products. Springboard Supplies is a place where learning, creativity and innovation thrive so that your classroom can too. We’re your springboard for ideas, creating exciting lessons and providing truly special learning moments with children.

Let’s go shopping for animal crafting supplies!

Find art and craft activities for kids here to make an animal from pre-prepared elements like paper, card, pipe cleaners, felt, and pom-poms. Browse animal themed arts and crafts for kids and toddlers here and place an order with us.