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Craft Tutorials | Crafts for Kids | Animal Crafts for Kids | Craft Stick Farm Animals

Craft Stick Farm Animals

Author by Amanda Davis on July 2, 2019 Updated on July 7, 2019

5 from 12 votes
Craft stick crafts are fun for kids as they can be turned into just about anything. Make adorable barnyard farm animals and other great craft stick crafts!
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Craft sticks can be turned into just about anything. The cute characters found in a barnyard are a great example! Cows, horses, pigs, chickens and more, all in craft stick form! I’ve always loved craft sticks as a surface. They are inexpensive and have so many possibilities.

Looking for a teen craft? Try these fun popsicle stick bracelets are great for girl scout groups, camp, or for them to do with friends!

Craft Stick Crafts: Farm Animals by CraftsbyAmanda.com @amandaformaro

 

Craft Stick Farm Animals

You can make animals out of them, as you can see here, but their boundaries are almost limitless. Snowmen, superheroes, jewelry boxes, scarecrows, mummies, monsters, puppets, the list goes on and on!

Craft Stick Crafts

Farm animals are fun because your child can choose whatever color they want. Who says a chicken has to be white? Why not purple or pink? Horses can have long manes, short manes, spots or no spots. Cats can be solid in color, have stripes or splotches, or why not polka dots?

Craft Stick Crafts: Farm Animals

What You’ll Need

  • 5 jumbo craft sticks
  • Googly eyes
  • Tan and pink Buttons
  • Small pink bead
  • Scissors
  • Glue or glue dots
  • Felt: light brown, dark brown, black, pink, orange, and red
  • Paint: white, black, light brown, pink and orange
  • Fine point marker


Craft stick farm animals

Let your child’s imagination run free or if they like, follow the colors and designs in these instructions. Whatever is most fun for them!

paint the craft sticks

[Printable instructions below] Once your child has decided on colors, have them paint their jumbo craft sticks.

adding felt or other customizations

You can use buttons for noses and snouts and felt for embellishments like manes and beaks.

creating the template for the craft stick animals

As you can see I drew mine out first to get an idea of what mine would look like.

farm animals made from craft sticks

And there you have it! A set of barnyard animal puppets your child can play with or use as bookmarks!

More Craft Stick Crafts

  • Craft Stick Scarecrows
  • Craft Stick Puppet Theater
  • Craft Stick Watermelon
  • Craft Stick Beach Plaque
  • Tons of projects made with craft sticks – Fun Family Crafts

Other Farm Animal Crafts

  • Farm themed crafts – Fun Family Crafts
  • Cardboard tube farm animals – Crafts by Amanda (pictured below)
  • Chocolate Pretzel Farm Animals – Hungry Happenings (pictured below)

Cardboard Tube Farm Animals - CraftsbyAmanda.com @amandaformaro

Chocolate farm animal pretzels - inspired by Craft Stick Crafts: Barnyard Farm Animals

My friend Beth from Hungry Happening wrote to me and showed me the most adorable edible farm animals I’ve ever seen! She was inspired by my craft stick version and I absolutely LOVE them! You can see these adorable farm animal pretzels here.

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Craft Stick Farm Animals

Craft stick crafts are fun for kids as they can be turned into just about anything. Make adorable barnyard farm animals and other great craft stick crafts!

Supplies

  • 5 jumbo craft sticks
  • Googly eyes
  • Buttons tan and pink
  • Small pink bead
  • Scissors
  • Glue or glue dots
  • Felt: light brown, dark brown, black, pink,orange, and red
  • Paint: white, black, light brown, pink and orange
  • Fine point marker

Instructions

  • Begin by painting the craft sticks. Two of them will be white and the other three will be pink, light brown, and orange. paint some black splotches randomly on one of the white sticks.
  • Use a thin paint brush (or you can use a black Sharpie!) to add stripes to the orange stick.
  • Pig’s ears – pink
  • Cow’s ears – black
  • Horse’s ears and snout – light brown
  • Horse’s mane and forelock – dark brown
  • Chicken’s comb: red
  • Chicken’s beak: orange
  • Cat’s ears: orange
  • You can use glue, or if you like Glue Dots, to attach the googly eyes to each craft stick. Glue the felt pieces in place for each animal and glue on buttons and the cat’s nose bead, and you have yourself a barn full of new friends!

This post originally appeared here on Feb 15, 2013.

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Amanda Davis is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years.
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  1. Terra says

    November 19, 2021 at 1:21 pm

    These are so cute!! I made some with my book club kids and I’d love to send you a picture (if you want one). We are doing a small winter craft fair at our school. Would it be okay for the kids and me to make some to sell at the fair (all proceeds would go towards books for our book club).

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  2. Nick says

    July 25, 2015 at 3:51 am

    Amanda,
    I recently subscribed to your website. I applaud you for your resourcefulness. Loved your idea of a fairy garden, rainbow button chime and of course the barnyard farm animals. Keep up the great work & looking forward to your next projects. You’ve given me ideas for making my niece and goddaughter’s bedroom happier with lots of color!

    Nick

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      July 27, 2015 at 8:28 am

      Thanks Nick, I appreciate your kind comment!

      Reply
  3. irma says

    August 11, 2014 at 10:06 am

    lindas y llamativas

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      August 13, 2014 at 7:14 am

      Thank you Irma!

      Reply
  4. hative says

    April 23, 2014 at 1:22 am

    These Popsicle Stick Farm Animals are simple yet so cute. Featured you on Homemade Popsicle Stick Crafts.

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      April 23, 2014 at 6:28 am

      Thank you so much for the feature!

      Reply
  5. meenakshi says

    March 10, 2014 at 11:30 pm

    awesoooommmmeeee these r really cute

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  6. VALÉRIA GOMES says

    March 1, 2013 at 7:28 am

    OLÁ AMANDA,MUITO LEGAL SEUS PROJETOS,PARABÉNS.VALÉRIA.(BRASIL).

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  7. Kelly says

    February 24, 2013 at 12:56 pm

    Adorbs!! Wish I had kids to do some of these with.

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  8. Rena says

    February 15, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    So cute!

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  9. Angie @ Big Bear's Wife says

    February 15, 2013 at 1:41 pm

    the little cow is my favorite!

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  10. Ashley Spain (@AshleySpain7) says

    February 15, 2013 at 1:09 pm

    Oh these are adorable!

    Reply
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