Print, color, cut out, and wear these easy paper masks. Our printable masks include thirteen animals—bears, bunnies, cats, dogs, elephants, foxes, goats, lions, monkeys, mice, owls, pandas, and tigers.
Notice the pair of little circles on each side of the mask? These are the spots where you need to punch holes for attaching the string. Paper masks normally tear around these holes after a few uses. To reinforce these spots, put transparent tape over the marked holes and fold the tape towards the back of the mask.
To date, we have printable masks for thirteen animals. Check them all out below plus some variations and crafting ideas that you can try.
Make a family of bears with our three printable bear masks. Color them brown to make brown bears, white for polar bears, or black to come up with black bears.
These masks are great to use for story time or role playing. Give the bears more character by decorating with paper or fabric hats, bows, spectacles, mustaches, or other fun accents. Check out these useful printables:
Rabbit masks are perfect for Easter or spring. An easy way to come up with a colored bunny mask is to print out the bunny template on colored cardstock. Add texture to your mask by gluing materials such as felt or fabric for the ears, a pompom nose, and some cotton for a fluffy snout.
We have three adorable cat masks that you can choose from. Paint the masks with one color or make some fur patterns with colored stripes or patches of color. Draw details like lashes, eye brows, or a tongue.
Choose from any of these three cute puppy masks. Color them after your favorite dog breed (e.g. golden brown for golden retrievers, black and white for border collie, etc.) or color it as you please. Add some fun details like a patch around the eye, some whiskers, or a hat or bow on top of the head.
Our elephant mask needs some additional steps to glue the ears and trunk onto the main mask template. See the complete craft instructions at our Printable Elephant Mask Craft page.
Red foxes are pretty popular but you can also color the mask gray to make a silver or gray fox, light brown for a swift fox, or white to make an arctic fox. Wear the mask as a cool disguise or use it for role playing stories such as The Little Prince or Aesop's The Fox and the Grapes.
This goat mask comes in three colors—perfect as costumes for The Three Billy Goats Gruff and other farm-themed stories.
Wear this mask as the king of the jungle! This mask is terrific for jungle, zoo, safari, or circus-themed parties, lessons, and activities.
If you are not comfortable wearing your animal mask directly on your face, make a handle and hold the mask in front of your face instead. Glue or tape a craft stick, an unsharpened pencil, or a wooden dowel at the back of the mask.
The monkey mask is great to make and wear for jungle-themed stories, lessons, or events.
These mouse masks are fun to craft and wear for mouse stories like The Three Blind Mice, The Country Mouse and The City Mouse, or Stuart Little.
If you wish to print out the colored masks, we have them in three colors—light gray, dark gray and brown.
This owl half-mask is a pretty neat disguise for a Halloween, Mardi Gras, or costume event. You can make it fancier by decorating with glitter, feathers, and sequins.
Everyone loves this cuddly gentle giant from China. Wear the mask whenever you want to dress up as your favorite panda character.
Dress up as the biggest cat in the world. Color your tiger mask with the traditional orange with black stripes or perhaps go with the rare white tiger (with black stripes).