Gorilla | Paper Bag Puppet | Animal Craft | Ape
- Grades
- Grades 1–5
- Pages
- 7
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Creative Arts, Animals
- Topic
- Gorilla puppet, Paper bag craft
- Resource types
- Crafts
- Preparation
- Print ready
Product description
From the author
This is a Gorilla Paper Bag Puppet for you and your students to enjoy! 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:
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 gorilla paper bag puppet template
· Realistic black and white gorilla paper bag puppet template
· Set of photo instructions
I hope you enjoy!!
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Follow a numbered multi-step sequence (print, color, cut, glue, assemble) to complete a hands-on craft.
Practice scissor-cutting skills by cutting individual animal pieces along their outlines.
Build fine-motor control through coloring, cutting, and gluing paper pieces onto a three-dimensional bag.
Teaching tips
- Provide paper bags, scissors, glue and coloring supplies.
- Color the black-and-white pieces before cutting them out.
- Let the glue dry before students put a hand inside the bag.
Skills covered
Sequential task following — students execute five ordered assembly steps (print, color, cut, glue body, glue head) in the order shown.
Scissor-cutting practice — students cut individual gorilla body and head pieces along their printed outlines.
Fine-motor gluing and assembly — students position and glue flat paper parts onto a paper bag to build a puppet.
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How does the finished craft get used once it's assembled?
After the glued paper bag dries, students slide a hand inside so the gorilla puppet can talk and move — the directions show this use after the five assembly steps.
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Core concepts
Craft assembly sequencing
Fine motor skills
Paper puppet construction
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