Do your kids love bears? Do they have a teddy bear that they sleep with every night? If so, then they’ll love these bear crafts and activities they can do for hours of fun!
The bear crafts below range from simple paintings to impressive paper crafts.
25 Bear Crafts and Activities
1. Cute and Easy Paper Bear Craft
Difficulty Level: Toddler
This is a really easy paper bear craft for toddlers! Paper Crafts provides colored and black & white templates for this craft. Other materials needed are scissors, glue, a marker, and coloring materials (optional).
2. Handprint Bear Art
Photo credit: Learn Create Love
Difficulty Level: Toddler
With just their hands and some paint, kids can create this simple handprint bear art courtesy of Learn Create Love! Optional items include a black marker and a paintbrush, or kids can use their fingers to add additional features.
3. Footprint Bear Art
Photo credit: Fun Handprint Art
Difficulty Level: Toddler
Fun Handprint Art turns a kid’s footprint into a cute bear! What they’ll need is paint, a paintbrush, and markers. Optional materials include craft foam for the heart and glue to stick it on.
4. Paint Splat Bear Art
Photo credit: Glued to My Craft
Difficulty Level: Toddler
Teach your kids symmetrical splat painting with this fun and easy bear art from Glued to My Craft. Grab cardstock, paint, scissors, glue, a black marker, and googly eyes for kids to make this paint splat bear art.
A grown-up’s help may be needed when folding the paper in half!
5. Fuzzy Paper Plate Bear Craft
Photo credit: What Can We Do with Paper and Glue
Difficulty Level: Toddler
Ellen from What Can We Do with Paper and Glue has an easy-to-do brown bear craft for toddlers.
To make this all kids need is paint, a plastic fork, a paintbrush, paper plates, glue, scissors, construction paper, and shaving cream.
6. Spoon Bear Craft
Photo credit: Creative Family Fun
Difficulty Level: Preschooler
Have any spare plastic spoons from a recent birthday party? With a plastic spoon, glue, markers, a pipe cleaner, craft foam, googly eyes, and pom poms, kids can easily make this spoon bear craft from Creative Family Fun.
7. Paper Tearing Teddy Bear Craft
Photo credit: Crafty Morning
Difficulty Level: Preschooler
Forget the scissors and just let kids rip and tear through colored paper to make this really easy teddy bear craft. Additional materials are glue and a marker (for the facial features). It’s that easy!
8. Fuzzy Bear Painting
Effortlessly paint a bear that looks close to a real one with Storytime With Danielle.
The technique is simple: using a fork! A bear design with bristly fur is accurately done and easily achieved through a tool we all use in the kitchen.
9. Paper Bag Bear Mask
Photo credit: Toddler Approved
Difficulty Level: Preschooler
Kristina from Toddler Approved shows kids how to turn themselves into bears with this paper bag bear mask. All they need is a large paper bag, cardstock, paint, a paintbrush, and tape.
10. Paper Bag Puppet Bear Craft
Difficulty Level: Preschooler
Here’s another activity kids can do with paper bags. Logan’s Life shows kids how to make these paper bag bear puppets with your toddler using different sized paper bags, coloring materials, glue or tape, and googly eyes.
They also provide a template for the bear parts, but it comes with a price tag ($2).
11. Toilet Paper Roll Bear Craft
Photo credit: Creative Family Fun
Difficulty Level: Preschooler
Reuse those empty toilet paper rolls for this bear craft from Creative Family Fun. In addition to this, kids will also need paint, construction paper, scissors, glue, googly eyes, and a black marker.
12. Paddington Bear Craft
Difficulty Level: Preschooler
Continuing the use of empty toilet paper rolls, here’s a neat little Paddington Bear craft, a character by British author Michael Bond.
Kids can make Paddington courtesy of Red Ted Art by using empty toilet paper rolls, scissors, glue, colored paper or felt, a black marker, and beads.
She also teaches kids how to make a simple suitcase out of an empty matchbox. How cool is that?
13. Bear Slinky
When presented between buying a toy and making one, I think the answer is quite easy.
Crafting your own toy not only develops those creative and motor skills, but it also saves you the trip and money of going to the toy store. Oh, and did I mention, you get to bond with your little ones?
Tratuha has got you covered with a slinky bear, similar to Slink in Toy Story.
Speaking of, make those characters instead of purchasing with these Toy Story crafts!
14. Care Bear Craft
Photo credit: Easy Craft for Kids
Difficulty Level: Preschooler
Don’t throw those empty toilet paper rolls out just yet! Here’s another toilet paper roll bear craft from Easy Craft for Kids. All they need is colored paper, scissors, glue, googly eyes, a pencil, markers, and a ruler.
The good thing is, Easy Craft for Kids also provides a template!
15. Accordion Paper Bear Craft
Difficulty Level: Preschooler
The aptly named 123 Easy Paper Crafts teaches kids how to make this really easy paper bear craft using cardstock, scissors, glue, googly eyes, and a marker.
16. Paper Weaving Bear Craft Activity
Difficulty Level: Kindergartener or older
KROKOTAK shares a bear craft for older kids that involves paper weaving. All kids need is colored paper, scissors, glue, coloring materials, and printable templates for the bear and its arms.
17. Bear Origami Bookmark
Whether a brown bear, polar bear, or panda bear is your favorite, the pages of your books will now have a guardian.
Thanks to Hello Origami‘s guide, children are now able to keep those book worms away, and, more importantly, be incentivized to keep picking up their books for reading!
18. Pom Pom Bear Craft
Photo credit: Easy Peasy and Fun
Difficulty Level: Kindergartener or older
Pom poms usually come small in size, but Easy Peasy and Fun shows kids how to make bigger ones with yarn.
After making the pom poms, kids can start putting together this bear craft with scissors, a glue gun, felt, googly eyes, and a black marker.
19. Pom Pom Teddy Bear Craft
Difficulty Level: Kindergartener or older
Let your kids make their own tiny teddy bear craft with this video tutorial by Merry Craft. All they will need is yarn, scissors, an empty toilet paper roll, and a glue gun.
20. Teddy Bear Clock Craft
Photo credit: First Palette
Difficulty Level: Kindergartener or older
Kids will learn how to tell the time in no time with this teddy bear clock from First Palette. They’ll just need construction paper, glue, a hole puncher, scissors, crayons or paint, a pencil, and a round head fastener.
21. Foam Ball Teddy Bear Craft
Photo credit: Dolled Up Design
Difficulty Level: Kindergartener or older
Kids can make a cute teddy bear craft out of foam balls thanks to this tutorial by Dolled Up Design! Aside from different sized foam balls, kids will need a glue gun, paint, and a paintbrush.
Kids can also glam their bears up with googly eyes, a ribbon, and markers!
22. String Bear Craft
Photo credit: The OT Toolbox
Difficulty Level: Kindergartener or older
String crafts are great for improving a child’s fine motor skills. The OT Toolbox has a relatively simple string bear craft for kids to make using twine, cardboard, scissors, googly eyes, a pom pom, glue, and tape.
23. Bear Head Origami
Difficulty Level: Kindergartener or older
From a small piece of paper, Origami 4ik shows kids how to make a cute bear head. Kids can also use markers to add facial features such as eyes, nose, and mouth!
A grown-up’s help might be required for some of the folds, though.
24. Teddy Bear Pouch
Keep the chocolates and candies in one place when trick-or-treating with this teddy bear pouch made by Happy Toddler Playtime.
25. 3D Origami Bear
Difficulty Level: Kindergartener or older
Here’s a video tutorial from John Montroll on how to make a full 3D bear! Some of the folds might be too complicated, so I suggest a grown-up help with those parts.
Bear Crafts for Kids
These bear crafts are sure to be enjoyed by kids of all ages! They can do many different types of bear arts and crafts projects to learn and keep busy, or even just to gain a new bear companion.
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