Feel like going on safari or a barnyard adventure? Here are some great animal themed paper crafts for a range of ages and skill levels.

This wonderful Paper Bag Puppet Kit can be found at Martha Stewart Crafts. While still grieving the loss of the old Martha shop and her amazing Kids magazine I’m happy to have this resource for craft kits, beautiful paper packaging for food, tools, scrapbooking supplies and so forth. The kit retails for $19.99 and makes 6 puppets. For those of you with crafty kids this would be a great sleepover party activity, would look great as party favors and clearly would make for a fantastic puppet show.

Paper Source is one of those brilliantly curated shops that I could just move into. It’s a great concept and I like the “Do something creative every day!” motto. Their D-I-Y Animal Card Kits are so basic and simple to assemble. Perfect for party invitations, wall art and thank you notes. $14.50 for a set that makes 10 cards.

And for older kids with good scissor skills I had to include these amazing Rare Animals of the World Paper Craft Models offered on the Yamaha Motor web site (I don’t know why either). The selection of models below is just the tip of the iceberg as there are dozens of these downloadable, absolutely free projects to select from. These beasties are challenging and best tackled with the assistance of an adult.

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