Can you turn a handprint into a giraffe? Well, our Easy Handprint Giraffe Craft for Kids certainly proves you can, and it looks great as well!

The animal world is truly vast, and if you look closely, many animals are quite similar to each other. For instance, it can be hard to quickly tell the difference between a crocodile and an alligator, or a leopard and a cheetah, or a hedgehog and a porcupine.

However, one animal stands tall (literally) among everyone else, and never gets confused with anything – the giraffe!

With its long neck, long legs and little horns, this is one unique animal that is instantly identifiable. I personally think that the Madagascar movies made it a little more popular than before!

With World Giraffe Day falling on 21st June, we think it’s the perfect time to add to our list of giraffe crafts for kids. So we bring you today an easy handprint giraffe craft – ideal for even young kids!

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Easy Handprint Giraffe Craft for Kids

Supplies required:

How to make the Handprint Giraffe Craft for Kids:

Easy Handprint Giraffe Craft for Kids

Supplies required:

Colored craft papers
Pencil
A pair of scissors
Googly eyes
Craft glue
Sharpies in different colors

How to make the Handprint Giraffe Craft for Kids:

1. Download the handprint giraffe craft template. The template contains parts of the giraffe, including head, horns, nose and tail. The template also includes a handprint, but you can make your own by simply placing your child’s hand on paper and drawing an outline around it.

2. Trace the parts of the template on craft papers of the appropriate colors and cut them out. You can choose yellow, orange or a light brown for the giraffe’s head, neck and body (the handprint). Browns works well for the horns, tail and nose.

3. Now that we have all the parts, let’s begin! Stick the nose at the bottom of the giraffe’s face.

4. Attach the head at the narrow end of the neck. A giraffe’s neck may be super long, but it has just 7 cervical vertebrae – the same as you and me! It’s just that the vertebrae themselves are quite long.

5. Attach the lower end of the neck to the wrist end of the handprint, so that the fingers point downward as shown below. Your handprint giraffe craft is beginning to take shape!

6. Stick the tail to the end of the thumb on the handprint. Attach the horns to the top of the head, applying glue at the back. Did you know that the giraffe’s horns are called ossicones?

7. Time to take out our Sharpies! Use a brown marker to draw spots all over the neck and body of the giraffe – leaving the legs/fingers. Shade in the tips of the fingers to make it look like hooves.

8. Stick two googly eyes on the giraffe’s head, above the nose section.

9. Take out your black Sharpie or marker and draw a tiny little mouth and nostrils. Make sure to give him a cute smile!

10. Use a pink or orange Sharpie to shade in the inner parts of the ears.

There you go – an adorable little handprint giraffe craft for you!

This handprint giraffe craft is easy enough for kids to make on their own, but it can also turn into one for siblings. The older child can do the cutting and sticking, while the younger one can go in with the markers. While they’re at it, be sure to read out some fun facts about this amazing creatures!

If you’d like more handprint crafts to try out with your little one, check these out: