Gorilla Jointed Paper Craft – Articulated Animal Art
- Grades
- Not Grade Specific
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Creative Arts, Art
- Topic
- Art Activity, Animal Activity
- Resource types
- Activities, Crafts
- Preparation
- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
This is a Gorilla Jointed Animal Craft for you and your students to enjoy! These paper crafts are so realistic and anatomically correct that you feel like you could reach out and touch. I hope as you incorporate these animal crafts into your lessons, your students can feel connected to these animals on a deeper and more meaningful level. I have provided them in realistic color and black and white for your students to color so that you can choose which is best for any particular situation.
This simple craft printable is ready to print and assemble! It's provided in a realistic color option and a black and white coloring option. We hope you enjoy the fabulous art- It's so real you could reach out and pet it!
How To Use This:
Decide whether you want a ready-to-print craft (the color version) or a craft for your students to color (the black and white version). Print enough for your students and supply them with brads, scissors, and crayons. Help them color the craft, cut out the pieces, and attach the pieces together with brads. Now you can move the animal and it feels like its alive!
This craft is perfect to pair with an animal, letter of the week, or picture book study. Add in a fun craft to any coordinating lesson to make it really stick! These paper crafts are also perfect to take babysitting, use in childcare settings, or during fun summer camps. Then send the craft home with your students so they can show off their work and fun project!
What You Get:
· Realistic color articulated gorilla template
· Realistic black and white articulated gorilla template
· Set of photo instructions
I hope you enjoy!!
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Learning objectives
Students follow a five-step process (color, cut, hole-punch, and connect with brads) to assemble a jointed paper gorilla craft.
Students practice fine-motor cutting and hole-punching skills while assembling small, articulated paper pieces.
Students choosing the harder version assemble a four-legged, more anatomically detailed gorilla model, while those using the easier version practice the same process with fewer, larger two-legged pieces.
Teaching tips
Offer the easier two-legged version for younger students and the harder four-legged version for older or more advanced students, since the file builds in this differentiation.
Use brads (paper fasteners) rather than glue at the joint holes so the finished gorilla's limbs can move.
Choose the color or black-and-white template depending on whether students should color the piece themselves or use a pre-colored version.
Skills covered
Craft assembly sequencing — students follow a five-step process (print, color, cut, hole-punch, connect with brads) to build a jointed paper gorilla.
Fine motor cutting and hole-punching — students cut out and hole-punch small individual body-part pieces before assembly.
Differentiated craft complexity — students work with either a simpler two-legged design or a more detailed four-legged design depending on skill level.
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What is the difference between the two craft versions?
The harder version has smaller pieces and four legs for a more realistic, moving gorilla, while the easier version has bigger pieces and only two legs, making it simpler to assemble.
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articulated paper craft
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