Are your children learning about wild animals for kids? Add these super cute, free Wild Animals Finger Puppets to your animals theme or day to play and learn! These Animal Printables are a fun animal activities for kids to add to your lesson plan to provide a creative opportunity for their learning! Simply print pdf file with finger puppet template printable and you are ready to play with your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or first grade student.
Your children will love making their own wild animal finger puppets! Whether they choose the black and white version to colour or you print the full-color version, they will have fun making up stories, singing related songs or saying nursery rhymes with this animal activities for kids. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or hoemschooler you will love this animal activity for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, or grade 1 students.
Animal Printables
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Animal activities for kids
Print your preferred set of wild animal puppets. There is a color-in-yourself set with the 5 animals- bear, giraffe, elephant, monkey and tiger. The same animals are available in the full-color version.
Ise crayons, markers, or colored pencils to color and cut the animals and secure it with a piece of sticky tape. The puppets are designed to fit small fingers(as you can see below, it barely fits my adult fingers).
TIP: you can also attach these puppets to wooden pegs/clothesline pins to make it stand on its own. It could be used as props in a sensory bin perhaps?
Animal activities for preschoolers
Use the animal puppets on the fingers to make up stories about wild animals. Or pair with a Zoo-themed book to retell the story. Empathy and life lessons are great to bring across in this manner too. 
Sing wild animal-related songs(We are going to the Zoo) or say nursery rhymes, for instance:
“The yellow giraffe is tall as can be. His lunch is a bunch of leaves off a tree. He has a very long neck and his legs are long too. And he can run faster than I can, too!”
Or, “A big, grey elephant I went to see He had four legs and he was bigger than me He had two ears so big and round And one long trunk that made a sound EEEEEEEEE!”
Finger puppet template printable
Many fun learning opportunities to be had with the cute wild animal finger puppets! Grab your free set now! We also have free printable Forest Animal Finger Puppets and Farm Animal Finger Puppets and Little Red Hen Story Puppets too!
Animal Printables
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Free printable animal puppets
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