I’ve shared so many free printable cut and paste crafts recently that I thought it was time that they had their own page to make them easier to find!
You’ll find loads of free printable resources here with ideas for seasons, holidays and loads of different topics perfect for school, preschool, homeschooling or just for having fun at home together.
What You'll Find on This Page
Cut and Paste Crafts
I love cut out crafts as an easy and fun way to help kids practice their scissor skills while still having fun. My own kids were never fans of boring worksheets and I figure most children are the same.
Our printables are designed so that you can color them in and with each one you’ll also find a little picture on the printable of what the finished article should look like. If you’re making one of our craft scenes though and want to just pop the items wherever feels right to you then obviously go for it!
Because I’ve shared so many of these activities I’ve tried to make it easier for you to navigate this page by splitting it into topics such as spring, Easter and St Patrick’s Day and so on but you’ll find though that there’s a little cross over between topics with things like apples that could be part of fall, farming or Thanksgiving themes so do make sure that you have a look through the whole list to find the craft that’s perfect for your kid.
To get the details of each cut and paste craft just click on the title for that printable.
What Craft Materials Do I Need?
Each of our cut and paste crafts is designed so that you only need the most minimal of craft supplies which you’ll already have or should be able to grab easily at a store.
You’ll need to download the printable and on each page you’ll find a link so that you can do that. You’ll also need some white paper or cardstock to print the PDF file onto and of course a printer to print it with.
Other than that it’s just scissors, glue (a glue stick or school glue is fine) and something to color in with, either coloring pencils, colored markers or crayons.
Chinese New Year
Featuring a Chinese dragon this activity is perfect for the Lunar New Year.
Valentines Day
This cut and paste bunny can hold a sign saying ‘I Love You’ or have an envelope addressed to whoever you’d like to give this craft to.
Make a cute bear for Valentines Day with a choice of it holding a heart shaped balloon or a card that you can write in.
Create this craft just as a cut out flower or glue it to some folded in half cardstock to make a Valentines card.
Spring
Great as an addition to learning about life cycles or spring animals, our frog also has a lily pad to sit on.
This lamb or sheep craft is great for Easter too and you could glue cotton balls onto it’s body to make it super fluffy!
Our cute bunny would also be a good craft to make for Easter or if you are doing a pets topic.
Kids can make an outdoor spring scene with some of our favorite spring flowers, animals and insects.
Make your own paper chick with this free download that’s great for Easter or farm topics as well.
This fun design would be great for learning about spring or life cycles or if your kids are fans of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The second page of this printable also contains a branch with some leaves for your caterpillar.
Cut, color and paste to build your own paper ladybug.
Our cut and paste bee has an additional page with a flower for them and would be a good choice for summer or Earth Day activities too.
Make a gardening craft complete with carrots, tomatoes and cabbages as well as a wheelbarrow and watering can.
As well as this being a great craft for spring when a lot of us are thinking about gardening this is also a good option for harvest, fall or Thanksgiving activities.
Celebrate the change in seasons and warmer weather with this printable spring tree craft.
With seven pages to download you can create this as a cut and paste craft or add sticks and string to fly your kite outdoors.
Learn about the colors of the rainbow with this fun craft that features the sun and raindrops too.
Cut and Paste Birds Nest Craft
Make your own paper birds nest with leaves and twigs to decorate it as well as eggs, a bird and a baby bird.
Make a wreath craft to display in your home or classroom featuring spring flowers, a bee, a butterfly and a ladybug.
A simple one page design with large shapes to create your own bird.
St Patricks Day
St Patrick’s Day Cut and Paste Craft
Make a scene as part of your celebrations this year with this activity that includes a leprechaun, pot of gold and lots of shamrocks.
This printable also includes a rainbow and loads of gold coins to fill your pot with.
Let your kids build their own leprechaun with a flag, shamrock or gold coins to hold.
Farm
This cut out tractor could be a good option for vehicle topics and maybe even Thanksgiving too if you are looking at harvests.
Make your own scene with loads of farm animals including cow, pig and ducks as well as a farm barn and hay.
Our cut and paste scarecrow has to be one of my favorite printables that we’ve shared and is also popular for fall and Thanksgiving themes.
Grab our scissors and glue sticks and see how an apple tree changes during the four seasons.
Earth Day
Make a paper Earth this Earth Day which has all of the continents included as well as some optional signs to add.
Color in your clothesline and then color and cut out some clothes to hang out on your line.
Easter
Make and color in this cute Easter egg card which you can pop our Easter chick inside of.
Create this fun Easter scene and make your own Easter egg hunt for it by hiding your eggs behind the grass, flowers and animals.
Decorate an Easter bonnet with loads of accessories including a bow, flowers and Easter eggs.
As well as looking super cute as I’ve shared it in the picture above this bunny would also look great on the front of an Easter card, just fold some cardstock in half and then glue your bunny and egg onto the front.
For this activity you’ll be gluing two sides of your Easter basket together meaning that you can store paper eggs and our cute paper Easter chick inside it.
I’ve also shared details of an educational add on to this activity to help with your child’s math and literacy skills.
Three different pages to download with lots of different parts to cut out so that you can design your own Easter eggs.
Mothers Day
This sweet craft for moms has the choice of four hearts each with a message, ‘Mom’, ‘To…. Love From….’, ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ and ‘I love you’ or a plain circle that you can use.
This is another of our cut and paste crafts that would look great on the front of a homemade card too.
Make a trophy for mom with this cute cut and paste craft that you can use to make a Mother’s Day card too.
Teachers
Make sure your teachers knows how much you’ve appreciated them this school year with this fun trophy craft.
Make a cute wreath craft for your teacher decorated with leaves and flowers.
Make this cute teddy bear for your teacher and add a cut out heart shaped card or balloon for them to hold.
Summer
This printable freebie is also a great choice as past of a camping topic and instead of just gluing it together it’s designed to be stacked so that you could use it for pretend play.
This PDF would be a great match for our caterpillar printable and has two pages included with the first page containing the butterflies main body and wings and the second page having loads of shapes for you to decorate the butterflies wings.
Build a paper sandcastle and decorate it with shells, flags and seaweed.
This cute cut and paste printable is a must for the summer months when so many of us are hoping for a trip to the beach!
The first page contains all our favorite things from the seaside including a palm tree, deck chair and a beach ball while the second page is a basic beach scene that you can glue them on to.
Download this printable and build your own ice cream with lots of toppings including chocolate flakes, sprinkles and syrup.
Which flavor ice cream will you make?
Make a summer themed tree complete with a dragonfly and lizard.
Make a fun wreath to celebrate the summer holidays including a sandcastle, sun, ice cream and more themed decorations.
Camping
If you’re hoping to take your kids camping this year or you’re planning a camping topic this cut and paste camping craft printable is a great choice.
This simple design is a great way for kids to practice coloring and using scissors and has a cute marshmallow to glue onto your stick as well.
Space
Our build an astronaut printable has options for male or female faces or you can draw your own.
This build the Earth craft has all of the continents included and would also be good as an Earth Day activity.
Make a fun moon landing scene with this printable.
Ocean
Make an under the sea scene filled with sea creatures including a whale, dolphin and jellyfish as well as seaweed and shells to decorate your picture.
This printable turtle is popular for ocean and under the sea crafts as well as Earth Day and summer topics.
Build a paper crab with this printable that’s perfect for ocean and summer activities.
This cute cut out coral reef features fish, a seahorse and seaweed and would be a great option for summer or an Earth Day activity too.
Grab this cut and paste printable to make a your own shark.
Add loads of tentacles to make this super cute jellyfish.
This cute seahorse will be the perfect addition to under the sea crafts.
4th of July
Kids can create a fun 4th of July scene with this two page printable including fireworks a barbeque and flags.
Make a patriotic wreath decoration for 4th of July with this cut and paste printable including themed items like flags, stars and a hot dog.
Our star wreath craft is a great option for the Fourth of July but it would also work really well for space crafts or New Years Eve.
Community Helpers
Make a paper ambulance with USA and UK designs available to choose from.
Our paper police car will be ready for all emergencies with two designs to choose from.
With two designs and an optional extra of making a ‘lift the flap’ cupboard for tool storage including a fire extinguisher, hat and bucket.
Back To School
This paper school bus craft comes with three options for the windows, you can have the sun reflecting on them, have kids riding the bus or there’s a blank option for your own drawings.
Fall
Make your own harvest scene this fall with this activity that would be perfect for Thanksgiving too.
Color in leaves in gorgeous fall colors and glue them to your trees branches or falling down to the pile of leaves below.
This apple craft is designed to be two sided so that kids can see both the inside and outside of their apple.
This craft template also has an additional page in the PDF file so that you can use this as a math activity too if you like.
Build an acorn with this printable that’s a great option for little learners.
Our simple owl craft is perfect for making during the fall months.
Recreate those picture perfect fall vibes with this fun pumpkin patch scene.
Similar to our apple activity, kids can build a pumpkin with two sides so that you can look at both the outside and insides of this fall favorite vegetable.
Follow the dotted lines and cut out spikes to glue onto the body to create this sweet hedgehog craft.
This cute pie activity has two ways to make it with an open design that’s perfect for younger kids while older children can make the paper lattice lid that can open and close.
Create some cute fall decor with this wreath craft featuring leaves, pinecones, pumpkins and more.
Halloween
Make a cute spider craft for fall or Halloween, this would be a great activity to make alongside spider themed books or the Incy Wincy Spider nursery rhyme too.
The printable also has a separate page with a spiders web to glue your finished spider on to.
Make your own paper Jack O’Lantern using this printable pumpkin that comes with lots of cut out features so that you can design a fun or scary face for it.
I think our build a bat craft is actually pretty cute and it’s a great choice for a Halloween activity.
Create your own spooky scene with this printable that comes with two pages for you to download. One background scene and then a page to cut out with a haunted house, ghosts, a dead tree and bats.
This printable has loads of pages that you can download and has lots of options for ghost outlines to cut out including spiral ghosts and ones to help support scissors skills.
You’ll also find loads of features for your ghost’s face and lots of accessories too.
I adore this not too scary witch craft that also has a black cat and spider to ride on her broom with her.
Create your own super spooky house this Halloween complete with boarded up door and monsters peaking out from the windows.
Design and build your own monster with this free cut and paste crafts that has 22 pages of designs and accessories for you to choose from.
Our paper vampire is designed so that once you’ve finished building it he can fold the wings of his cape around himself.
Grab this fun free design and make a Halloween treat bag that you can fill with paper candies.
Day of The Dead
Decorate a sugar skull for Dia De Los Muertos with flowers, hearts and diamond shapes perfect for coloring in brightly.
Thanksgiving
Kids can write the things that they are thankful for onto the hearts in this craft before gluing them into the jar.
It’s a great choice for Thanksgiving activities but would also work well at other times of the year just as a way of encouraging gratitude in kids.
Make a thankful turkey with this activity that encourages kids to write something that they are thankful for on each of the turkey’s feathers.
Make a cornucopia this Thanksgiving and fill it with fruit vegetables and leaves.
This craft is perfect as a Thanksgiving activity and is available in both black and white and full color designs.
Make your own pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving that looks good enough to eat!
Encourage gratitude with this printable wreath craft where you can write things that you are thankful for on each of the leaves before gluing them onto the wreath template.
Make a paper Thanksgiving wreath complete with a turkey, pumpkins and lots of fall leaves.
Winter
This cut and paste snow globe has to be one of my favorite winter crafts, you can put the snowman into your scene, add a drawing or even a photograph to it.
A simple one page activity with our cut out snowman.
This PDF is a more extensive version of our snowman craft above and has 12 pages to download with plenty of different snowman shapes to choose from as well as accessories to decorate it with.
Create and decorate a bobble hat perfect for the cold winter weather.
Cut out snowflakes and winter animals for this winter activity that goes perfectly with our other four seasons tree cut and paste worksheets.
Use this two page printable to make your own winter scene with a cosy cabin and a frozen pond to skate on.
This printable polar bear can be used as part of an arctic animals topic or you can dress it up with the fun scarf and hats included for winter and Christmas.
Make a paper penguin with this PDF that also includes a hat and scarf.
With arctic animals, an Inuit person and an igloo to add to your scene this cut and paste activity is perfect for making during winter.
Our mittens craft can be made so that it’s double sided and you can join them together using yarn or ribbon.
With marshmallows and an option of a snowflake or heart design our cut and paste hot chocolate craft is perfect for winter.
With a choice of a bear, penguin or snowman to add to the wreath template as well as lots of snowflakes.
Christmas
Make a paper wreath perfect for decorating any home during the festive season with this printable that includes loads of decorations such as pinecones, holly and a bow.
Decorate a stocking ready for Christmas Eve with this printable craft that includes both decorations for the stocking and gifts to put inside it.
Build a paper Christmas tree with this simple one page printable.
This elf printable has an option of boy or girl faces for you to use as well as a candy cane or present for your finished elf to hold.
Our printable angel can also be used as a Christmas tree topper to make it into a cute Christmas decoration.
Make a cute Santa this Christmas as he delivers presents through the chimney!
Make Santa’s grotto with this two page design and see Santa getting gifts ready to deliver with his elves and reindeer ready to help.
Make this adorable gingerbread man craft which also comes with a gingerbread recipe that you can make.
Our printable nativity craft is perfect for helping kids to learn about the Christmas story.
This free printable is perfect for fans of the Nutcracker ballet.
This super sweet scene is perfect for the festive season and unlike making the real thing it’s a lot less likely to fall apart!
Another expanded PDF pack for when you want to decorate your tree with all the stuff and be totally extra!
This download contains 11 pages including five different Christmas tree designs, Christmas lights, tinsel and Christmas tree toppers.
Use this one page PDF to make a cute candy cane and candy swirl sweet.
Make a paper reindeer with this easy prep, super cute Christmas activity.
Thanks for all the great activities! Very much appreciated. It is very obvious that whoever created them has lots of talent.
I am so thankful to you for your amazing templates. My kids really enjoy doing these worksheets. Once again, thank you for your hard work
Your worksheets and cut and paste crafts are THE best. Would love to see your ideas on a Dinosaur cut and paste, too.