Preschool Crafts

4 Owl Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

4 owl crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture and simple steps. Easy ideas for ages 3 to 5 using paper, paint, and glue.

Kindergarten Prep Team
Oct 11, 2026

Two round eyes are most of an owl, and the rest is whatever brown paper you have. The paper plate owl is what preschool craft classes make when fall is here . Here are four owl crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture, the supplies, and the steps.

Owls belong to fall, or the letter O. A three-year-old paints the plate and presses on two circles for eyes. A five-year-old folds the top of a toilet paper roll into ears and cuts the wings. The lopsided one goes on the fridge.

Start here: three owl crafts that always work

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4 owl crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

Handprint owl, an easy owl craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

1. Handprint owl

The child's handprints form the wings or body of an owl, finished with eyes and a beak.

Handprint

You need: brown paint, 2 large googly eyes, orange marker, light blue paper, glue

How to make it
  1. Paint your child's hand brown. Press one handprint with the fingers pointing down.
  2. Paint the other hand and press it with the palms overlapping in the middle and the fingers spreading out as wings. Let it dry.
  3. Glue the 2 eyes side by side on the overlapped palms.
  4. Draw a small triangle beak below the eyes with the orange marker.
Paper plate owl, an easy owl craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

2. Paper plate owl

The child paints a plate, folds or adds wings, then glues on big round eyes and a beak.

Paint and glue

You need: 1 paper plate, brown paint, dark brown paper, yellow paper, 2 googly eyes, orange paper, glue

How to make it
  1. Your child paints the plate brown. Let it dry.
  2. You cut 2 dark brown wings, 2 large yellow circles and an orange triangle.
  3. Glue the wings at each side with the points down.
  4. Glue the yellow circles side by side in the upper half, an eye on each, then the beak between and below them.
Toilet paper roll owl, an easy owl craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

3. Toilet paper roll owl

The child folds the top of a tube down into ears and glues on eyes, a beak and paper wings.

Build it

You need: 1 toilet paper roll, brown paint, 2 large googly eyes, orange paper, light brown paper, black marker, glue

How to make it
  1. Your child paints the roll brown. Let it dry.
  2. You push the top edge down in the middle from front and back, so the two sides stick up as ears.
  3. Glue on the 2 eyes near the top. Cut a small orange triangle and glue it below them as a beak.
  4. Cut 2 light brown wings and glue one on each side. Your child draws small V marks on the tummy as feathers.
Letter O owl, an easy owl craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

4. Letter O owl

The child glues an O to paper and adds big round eyes, a beak, wings and feet to make an owl.

Cut and glue

You need: brown paper, light brown paper, white paper, 2 large googly eyes, orange paper, glue stick, light blue paper

How to make it
  1. You cut a big capital O from brown paper, 2 white circles, 2 light brown wings, an orange triangle and 2 small orange feet.
  2. Your child glues the O on the blue sheet.
  3. Glue the white circles side by side near the top, then an eye on each.
  4. Glue the beak below the eyes, a wing on each side, and the feet at the bottom.
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Owl crafts with a 3 or 4 year old: eyes, wings, the letter O

Cut the eye circles and beak triangles ahead of time, big ones. The owl appears the moment the eyes go on, and that is the part a child waits for.

A three can paint, glue on eyes and fold the tube top down with a little help. The handprint owl needs an adult to paint the hand and press it.

The letter O owl is for the O sound. The eyes are two more O's, so point to each one and say oh, owl.

The paper plate owls sit on a fall branch display at school. The tube owls line up on a shelf. The handprint one goes in a keepsake folder.

What you need for owl crafts

Most of these use the same handful of supplies: googly eye, brown paint, glue, orange paper, light blue paper, light brown paper, orange marker, paper plate. Everything else is named on the craft it belongs to.

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