African Animal Finger Puppets
Print and cut out these adorable African animal finger puppets and use them to play games or put on a puppet show. You might want to print our African savannah backdrop for your show too!
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We've got so many animal printables on the website, and you'll find most of them listed in their own categories on the main Animals page. Here are just a few more that don't fit into any other categories! Remember, for specific Animals you can search our Animals A-Z too.
Print and cut out these adorable African animal finger puppets and use them to play games or put on a puppet show. You might want to print our African savannah backdrop for your show too!
This African animals number line is such a fun way to cheer up tables and desks in the classroom. Just slice (and laminate if you wish) and get counting...
Here's a fun animal calendar for the school year 2024-2025, starting in September 2024 and ending in August 2025. Each page has a colourful animal character to entertain you, and there is "a line a day" to record events.
Create your own puppet show set in a pond using this lovely set of bird and animal finger puppets. Just print onto some card, carefully cut out each character and follow the instructions to make your puppets - you can laminate them too for extra durability.
There is something missing from the bat on our bat playdough mat - but it's nothing a little playdough won't fix!
Use your playdough to add a bee to this lovely flower - or perhaps another insect!
Use this lovely printable as a word mat (we have British Wildlife Word Cards too), or perhaps as a poster for the classroom or home...
Use these bunny name badges for Easter parties, Easter egg hunts, the classroom, place names and so on.
Decorate your desks or table with these six funny bunnies - perfect for Easter or any time! Fold in half so that they stand up on the table or desk and write names on the front. We have included a version with handwriting lines so that younger children can write their own names.
Who says learning the time has to be boring? Why not brighten up your lessons with this lovely bunny clock, sure to appeal to the kids! Just print it out, cut it out and assemble with the help of a split pin (brad) and you are set to go...
Here's a bunny mobile to print, cut out and assemble with your kids - a fun activity for Easter. There are 8 different funny bunnies in total, but which one is the Easter bunny?
Here's the perfect mobile for children who love cats! Print out this 4-page pdf file. Cut out the shapes carefully, then match them up in pairs and glue them together back to back, sandwiching a length of fishing line or thread between them.
This cat room sign is a cute and easy way to personalise your room! Simply print, cut out, then write your name in black marker (laminate for extra durability).
Make your own simple dog-themed door hanger with this printable. Print, cut out and fold in half and stick together, then cut out the circle - your doggy door hanger is ready to hang on your door handle!
Print, cut out, glue and hang this very cute dog mobile - there are 6 different pooches to entertain you as they drift in the breeze!
If your child loves dogs they're bound to love this fun room sign. To make, simply print onto strong white paper or card, write their name (or ask an older sibling to write it for them) then laminate to make the sign stronger.
Here's a set of dolphin name badges which print 12 to a page. We've got two versions, one with handwriting lines for the kids to write their own names. Print onto sticker paper or card; if you use the latter, attach with a safety pin.
Simple, fun place cards to print with a smiley dolphin image, perfect for perking up a school desk! Make a tent fold and either write the child's name yourself or encourage them to write their own.
Here's an Easter activity to help the children practise upper and lower case letter recognition. Print onto some card and cut out the pieces (laminate if you prefer). The children then need to match the lower case letters on the carrots with the upper case letters on the bunnies!
Print out these cute little Easter bunny egg cup printables. Cut out, fold and enjoy a special Easter morning boiled egg and soldiers. Please be aware that a cardboard egg cup won't support an egg which is taking a lot of bashing!
Print out this cute little Easter bunny, cut him out carefully, fold him and stand him up on display in the home or classroom! Available pre-coloured for an extra quick activity, or in black and white for the kids to colour in themselves.
There are 36 bingo cards here for our farm animal bingo game - perfect for a large class or group. You could use our Farm Animal Word Cards to call the game.
This farmyard bingo game is designed for younger children. There are fifteen A4 size sheets to print and hand out to the kids. You could use our Farm Animal Word Cards to call the bingo game. If you are planning to play this often it might be an idea to laminate the bingo cards.
Who could resist a little counting practice when they are helped along with our pig, cow and sheep! These number lines have been designed to be extra quick to print, slice and use. Laminate for wearability if you wish.
This colourful fish mobile is a fun cutting and sticking activity for children. Cut out each matching pair of fish and then glue together, trapping a piece of thread behind them. Perfect as a nursery or playroom decoration!
Print out these fish name badges for a swimming party perhaps, to help you keep track of the kids during tea? Fun for the classroom too, and they make cheerful labels for possessions...
These large, cheerfully coloured fish are sure to brighten up the classroom! Have them swimming around the room in order or use them for sorting activities. This printable has 10 fish, 1st to 10th.
Six funny fish decorate this set of printable place cards - perfect for a swimming party perhaps?
Create your own personalised room sign with a fishy twist! Print onto some white paper or card, write your name then laminate.
This fun printable scrapbook paper is covered in fish of all shapes and sizes and colours, and makes a useful addition to the craft cupboard. You will need the password ActivityVillage.co.uk to open and print this scrapbook paper.
Use these cute frog number line markers with our lily pad number line and lily pad number line skip counting by 4.
In colour, black and white, with or without stripes, showing odds and evens ... this hundred square is funny and cute and we hope the kids like it!
Pick from 5 versions of our "fill in the blanks" hundred square, cheered on by a very elongated giraffe! We've included 3 levels of random numbers as well as an odds and an evens exercise.
Get the kids skip counting their times tables or print out our lovely giraffe hundred squares for reference. We've picked out the numbers from 1-100 in colour, for tables from 2s to 10s. This is a 10 page pdf file.
Here's a cut and stick activity for children. Colour in the goldfish and their bowl, then cut them out and stick them in!
This funny guinea pig is here to tell everyone that this room is yours! Print our room sign, cut out and laminate if you prefer, then hang on your door...
Isn't this black cat scrapbook paper design fun, with the "evil" grin on the cat's face?
Here's a very cute hamster alphabet and number printable which you can use to decorate scrapbooks, in the classroom or in all sorts of crafty projects at home. It helps to make learning fun! Lower case letters and numbers 0-9 included.
Use our fun hamster notebooking pages for somewhere to write down notes on how to look after your pet hamster, perhaps?
Available in colour or black and white, this useful and colourful word mat pictures some of the hibernating animals that the children might learn about - or be interested in learning about.
We've got horse, cow and sheep finger puppets ready to print out on this sheet. Once you've made your puppets, the children can then have fun playing games or putting on their own puppet show set on a farm or in a field...
Here's a fun way to learn colours - with the help of these cute jellyfish colour flash cards! We've provided 8 colours and both a UK and US version. You could also use the cards for alphabetical order practice with older children...
Choose from 4 colours of this fun jellyfish patterned printable scrapbook / craft paper - dark purple, turquoise, deep blue or grey.
Add some lambs to this countryside picture - for Easter, for spring, or for a farm topic, perhaps.
This printable number line provides lily pad numbers from 1 to 50 - perfect for our frog number line markers to hop along.
We designed this lily pad number line, with numbers divisible by 4 highlighted in yellow, to be used with out frog number line markers, with Leap Year in mind - but of course if works well for 4 times tables practice too.
Help the kids learn to count with these extra cute minibeast number lines! We have an ant, bee and beetle to help them along...
These colourful number lines come with blue edges and cheerful bees to help the kids along. Just slice along the dotted lines to divide them up.
This origami dog printable is folded in the same way as our origami dog, but with folding lines to make it even simpler for little children.
These lovely bright pet animal flash cards print two to a page, and there are 12 in total over 6 pages. Print onto white card for the best result, and you can laminate each flash card for extra durability if you prefer.
We've produced 12 words and pictures on these adorable pet animal flashcards, printing four to a page. Use them for reading and vocab activities.
Our pet animal picture flashcards feature 12 lovely images of pets. Use them to find out what the children know about each pet animal or use to make a classroom display.
Our cute pet animal vocabulary matching cards can be cut out individually and used for matching games or folded to make two-sided cards to test vocabulary.
Here's a set of 15 useful word cards with all the different pet animals we could think of. Perfect for labelling displays and vocab activities.
Print and laminate this fun pet animal word mat and use as a placemat for the kitchen table, or for writing activities in the classroom.
The kids will love this cute rabbit room sign! It can be personalised with their name in black marker, then laminated to last longer if you prefer.
Here's a lovely collection of rainforest animals and birds, ready to print and cut out and make into finger puppets - just follow the instructions on the downloadable sheet.
Colour in the lovely illustration on the front of this beautiful rainforest postcard, then write an address and message on the back.
This 10 page pdf has 5 different size scottie dogs per page and 10 different colours. Print, cut out and laminate and use for all sorts of sorting activities.
Print these fun sea creature finger puppets (there are eight in total) and use them with our large under the sea backdrop to create your own aquatic puppet show!
Here's a mixed set of name badges decorated with a selection of sea creatures - fun for parties or first days at school, perhaps? Or use them to name your children's belongings...
Here's a mixed set of six printable place cards with a sea creature theme, perfect for swimming parties or the classroom. They come with handwriting lines or without.
Here are three easy-to-print number lines for early learning, with numbers 0 to 10 and some very cute sea creatures to help the kids learn to count!
Use these shark name badges for a swimming party, perhaps - to keep track of the kids' names while they eat their tea, or to pin onto their possessions before they go into the lockers.
There's scary sharks - and there are sharks which aren't scary at all. We've got the second kind! Print out these shark place cards and use them to mark places in the classroom - or perhaps at a swimming party? They stand up with a tent fold.
Print and cut out this delightful snake jigsaw featuring all the letters of the alphabet, for your child to re-assemble - it's a great way to learn the alphabet! Available in colour and black and white, and with lower case and upper case letters.
These bright stripy horses come in six different sizes. Print onto card, cut out (and laminate if you wish), then use them for counting, sorting into size order etc.
This Halloween playdough mat provides two nice spider webs, which just need spiders! Give the kids some playdough and see what sort of spiders they can create...
Lovely smiley starfishes decorate these printable name badges, and we hope they bring a smile to the face of the children that wear them!
This smiley starfish illustration is sure to cheer up the child that sits at the place marked by these starfish place cards! Kids can write their own names with the handwriting guide lines, too.
Here's a fun planning sheet for kids with dogs to fill out in advance of the long summer holidays - things to do with my dog this summer! How about - walking, swimming, teaching tricks, playing ball, having a bath...
We've created these lovely, colourful printables with the words to three counting songs about animals - Alice the Camel, Five Little Speckled Frogs and Five Little Monkeys.
Print out this gorgeous tiger scrapbook paper for crafty jungle-themed projects, or perhaps for Year of the Tiger 2022. Simply folding it in half would make a stunning card for a child born in Year of the Tiger, or you could use it to wrap up a small gift, too.
Here's a fun way to personalise a bedroom door! Print and cut out this fun tortoise room sign, then write a name in the space provided. Laminate, then hang on the door!
Write a list of tricks to teach the dog - and then you can tick them off when you have done it! Start with "sit" and "stay", perhaps?
This fun printable wreath features animal faces set against a "world" background. It's fun any time but also perfect for World Animal Day.
This postcard is perfect to print and have ready after you have visited a zoo with the kids. They can colour in the picture and then tell family or friends just what they saw! It also makes a great imaginative writing activity.