Colorful Newspaper Owl Craft for Kids

I love to make crafts with my children out of recyclable materials any chance I get!

Painting newspaper with watercolors is a great way to repurpose old newsprint to turn it into something amazing.

Read our step by step instructions below for how you’re able to transform newspaper into beautiful owls.

Painted newspaper owl craft laying on a pink background with craft pom poms scattered around.

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Instructions:

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This is totally open-ended, so just let children paint with as many colors and variations as they desire.

Two painted newspaper owl crafts, one laying on top of the other on a black chalkboard background.

The newspaper will be saturated but as it dries it should stiffen back up again.

We let our newspaper dry overnight.

Cut out owl body

Cut out the shape of an owl body from your newspaper.

Four image collage showing someone painting newspaper with watercolors, tracing the template on newspaper and assembling the owl pieces together to make the owl craft.

Glue black circle pupils inside the eyes, or use googly eyes.

Two painted newspaper owl crafts laying side by side on a black chalkboard background.

Vertical close up image of painted newspaper owl craft on a pink background with the words “Newspaper Owl Craft” in the top right corner.

Vertical image of two painted newspaper owl crafts laying one on top of the other with the words “watercolor newspaper owls” in the bottom right corner.