Owl Crafts and Learning Activities
for Kids

How to Make Owl Crafts and Learning Activities

Types of Owls Printable Coloring Sheet or Activity Sheet

Use this activity sheet to help your children study the different types of owls. They can color the sheets and talk about the differences between the species, or cut them out and write descriptions about each one including their habitat, characteristics, physical attributes.

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Owl Puppets Craft and Creative Play

Owl Babies Stick Puppet Skit Read "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell or watch the animated version on YouTube. Have your children make three baby owl puppets and a mother owl and then make a puppet skit. Then have your children make up their own story and skit using the puppets. The patterns for these puppets are available to members only.
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"Wow! Said the Owl" Writing and Art Activity

Owl Shape Book with Moveable Wings

The wings on this owl book move up and down. Children can write facts about owls on the wings.

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Owl Shape Book with Lined Paper

Children will enjoy writing facts or a story about owls in this owl-shaped book.

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No-Sew Sock Owl Craft for Kids

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What you will need: sock, brown, yellow-orange, tan, and black felt, brown fun foam, hot melt glue gun, and eyes.

How to Make a Sock Owl Craft:

1. Cut the bottom part off the sock all the way up to the heal.

2. Stuff the cut off part leaving the top inch empty.

3. Cut brown and orange circles for the eyes and glue them about one in below the cut edge of the sock. Glue eyes to the center of the circles. Cut a long oval shapes for the beak from black felt and glue it to the face as shown.

4. To make the ear tuffs fold the back side of the cut edge of the sock over the front side and glue it to the front of the owl covering part of the eye circles. Poke in the material formed on each side to make the ear tuffs. Use a little glue to keep them closed.

5. Cut wing shapes from felt and glue them to the sides of the owl.

6. Cut claw shapes from brown fun foam and glue them to the bottom or toe of the sock.

To make even more sock animals go to the Sock Crafts and Learning Activities fo Kids page.

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Wax Resist Owl Craft for Kids

What you will need: White crayon, water color paint, and card stock or water color paper.

What to do:

1. Draw an owl on a piece of card stock or water color paper with a dark crayon or permanent marker. (A pattern for this craft is available to members.)

2. Draw the feathers in with a white crayon or other light-colored crayon.

3. Paint over the crayon with water color paint. The water color paint will not stick to the crayon and the pattern you drew will show through.

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Horned Owl Milk Jug Recycle Craft for Kids

What you will need: Plastic milk jug, acrylic paint, fun foam, scissors, and low temp. glue.

How to make a milk jug owl:

1. Cut the top off the jug where the lid screws on with scissors. Fill the jug with a few cups of sand or pebbles to add weight to the owl.

2. Cut the wings, feet, and horn pattern from fun foam and glue them to the milk jug. To make the horns bend up slightly stretch the fun foam with your fingers at the points.(Problems Printing?)

3. Paint the owl using acrylic paint. If you are going to place the owl outside, spray the entire surface with a clear acrylic paint.

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"Be Wise" Owl Crafts and Learning Activities

Paper cup owls hold "wise quotes" on sheets of rolled up paper. For a writing assignment children can write about what they think each quote means, or if they agree with the quote. Go to the Ready-for-school Crafts and Activities Page for patterns and directions.

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Owl Printable Valentine's Day Card Craft for Kids

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Horned Owl Decoration or Change Purse

These charming little owls can be used for many different purposes. Stuff them and make them plump for a children's toy, hang them on your Christmas tree, string them together to make Christmas garland. Add a zipper and use them as change purses or gift holders.

What you will need: White muslin or felt material, buttons or felt for the eyes, felt for the beak and feet, hot melt glue, pliers, zipper (optional), and decorative items such as Rickrack and lace. *Note- decorative buttons like the ones we used can be very expensive. I cut my buttons from old clothes I bought from rummage sales.

How to make:

1. Cut out two each of the the body shape and four each of the wing shape from the muslin material (two each of the wing if using felt). (Patterns for this craft are available to members.)

2. Use one of the body patterns to make the front of the owl. Glue or sew on buttons for the eyes. Large orange buttons and decorative gold buttons with black shiny middles were used for the eyes of the owls pictured. The shanks (back of the buttons) were cut off using pliers. You can also use felt or googly eyes. Cut a triangle shape for the beak from gold felt and glue between the eyes.

3. Sew Rick Rack, ribbon, or other decorative items on the front of the owl. You can also use fancy sewing machine stitching or embroidery.

4. Making the owls out of felt is much easier than using muslin because you don't have to worry about frayed edges, and you don't have to sew the material and then turn it right-side out. To make the felt owl place the wings and feet between the body patterns and pin them to keep them in place. If you would like to include a loop for hanging the owl, cut a piece from the felt, fold it in half and then pin it between the body pieces so that it is up side down. Sew all the way around the body to secure the feet and wings. If you want the owl to be plump, leave part of the top of the head between the ear tuffs open, stuff it with Polyfil, and then sew it closed.

5. If you would like to make a change purse. Cut open the back of the owl as shown in the pattern and sew in a zipper. Then sew the front and back together.

6. To make the muslin owl decorate the front piece first. Sew two wing patterns together and then turn them right side out and stitch around the edges. (You could use felt for the wings instead and you would only need to cut two wings.) Pin the wings to the front body part so that the wings are facing inward. Pin the feet to the body pattern so that they are facing upward. Sew around the body pattern leaving the top middle part of the head open. Turn right-side out and then top-stitch all the way around the body.

You can also add a zipper to make a change purse. A pattern is provided for this also. The back pattern is in two pieces and is longer because you have to make a hem where the zipper is sewn on. Once you hem the pieces, place the zipper so that the teeth match up with the hemmed edge and sew it on. I unzipped the zipper to sew it on, then zipped it back up when I was done, and then cut off the extra length. When you sew the back and front together the zipper tab won't be able to come off the zipper.

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Pinecone Great Horned Owl Craft for Children

What you will need: Pinecones (If possible use pinecones that are twisted at the bottom so that the bottom of the pinecone is showing from one side.), Small brown feathers, yellow construction paper, inside of a sunflower seed, Chenille stems (optional), wiggly eyes, and glue.

How to make a Pine Cone Owl:

This is a very simple, quick and inexpensive craft for young children. Older children may want to add legs to their owl using Chenille stems or pipe cleaners.

1. Glue two small feathers to the bottom of the pinecone to look like the tuffs of the great horned owl.

2. Glue more small feathers to the face area in a circular pattern starting with the shaft of the feather in the center of the face to make the facial disk.

3. Cut yellow eyes from the construction paper and glue to the facial disk. Use a magic marker to color in the pupils. Glue them to the face. Glue on a sunflower seed, point down, for the beak.

4. Bend Chenille stems to make the owl's legs, and glue them between the scales of the pinecone.

These little owls look great in pinecone wreaths and Christmas trees.

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Great Horned Owl Craft Made with Real Feathers

What you will need: brown feathers, yellow construction paper, black magic marker, inside of a sunflower seed, glue, and brown construction paper or a paper plate.

How to make:

1. Draw an egg shape for the owl on to brown construction paper or paper plate and cut it out. The wider end of the egg shape is the owl's head.

2. Glue two feathers on for the wings. Then glue on long feathers for the body.

3. Glue the shaft end of the feathers to the neck area so that the tips of the feathers form the owl's tail feathers (Feathery part).

4. Cut the tips off of some of your feathers and glue them in a circular pattern onto the face area to make the facial disk.

5. Cut yellow circles from the construction paper and use a magic marker to color in the pupils. Glue on a sunflower seed for the beak. A Pattern available to members only.

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Paper Bag Owl

What you will need: Brown paper lunch bag, brown construction paper, black marker, yellow card stock or construction paper, glue, and newspaper ripped in quarters.

How to make a paper lunch bag owl:

1. Stuff a paper lunch bag with wrinkled up pieces of newspaper about half full. Pull the sides of the paper bag out from the top so that you can make a flat surface at the top of the bag.

2. Fold down the sides from the middle top of the bag and glue them down. Fold the down the point to the front of the bag making the top of the owls head. Pull up on the sides to make the horns and open them slightly.

3. Draw wings on brown paper and eyes and a beak onto yellow paper using a black Sharpie, and cut them out. Glue them to the bag. (Printable Patterns for the wings, eyes, and beak are available to members.)

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Letter O for Owl Printing and Cursive Writing Worksheets

This worksheet goes with the ABC series of lessons in which children learn godly concepts and study animals at the same time. They are great for Christian preschools and home school children. They are designed for preschool through third grade. Children can print the letters, trace them, write them in cursive, write the complete Bible verse in cursive or print it, or write the word.

These lessons also include other learning activities to go along with the theme including math, spelling, writing, science, and review games. Lessons and worksheets are available to members only.