Gorilla Jointed Paper Craft – Articulated Animal Art

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From the author

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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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

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

Following assembly directions.
Cutting and hole punching.
Joining moving paper parts with brads.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

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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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

Articulated paper craft
Brad-jointed assembly
Fine motor skills

Topics

Gorilla craft Jointed animal Paper assembly

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