Description
Get kids drawing, creating, and moving with this fun Design Your Own Animal Packet! This 25-page activity set combines creativity, visual-motor practice, drawing, and gross motor movement in one easy-to-use printable resource. The PDF will be available electronically immediately following payment.
Each animal worksheet gives children a large animal to customize. Kids look at the different eyes, noses, mouths, and accessories, choose their favorites, and draw them onto the animal. Then they can name their creation and finish the activity by trying the animal-inspired movements at the bottom of the page.
What Is Included in the Design Your Own Animal Packet?
The packet includes 25 different animal worksheets featuring a variety of familiar animals, from pets and farm animals to zoo, woodland, and ocean animals. Examples include a cat, dog, penguin, frog, elephant, turtle, panda, monkey, lion, tiger, giraffe, koala, llama, owl, horse, squirrel, dinosaur, octopus, and more.
Every worksheet follows a simple, kid-friendly format:
- Choose and draw facial features
- Add fun accessories
- Name the animal
- Color and decorate the finished creation
- Complete animal-inspired gross motor movements
The movement activities vary by animal. Children might waddle and flap like a penguin, stomp like an elephant, prowl like a lion, trot like a horse, climb like a squirrel, or stretch like a tiger.
More Than Just a Drawing Activity
These worksheets provide opportunities to practice visual-motor integration, fine motor skills, visual discrimination, copying, creativity, body awareness, and gross motor skills. Children make their own choices, reproduce simple visual features, and then get up and move.
The black-and-white format also makes the packet easy to print and gives children plenty of opportunities to add their own colors and creative details.
The Design Your Own Animal Worksheets are Great for:
- Occupational and physical therapy sessions
- classroom brain breaks
- early finishers
- indoor recess
- homeschool activities
- movement centers
- morning work
- fine motor stations
- simple screen-free activities at home.
Just print a page, grab crayons or markers, and start designing!
