Papercraft Endangered Animals

Pictured is a sampling of some of the paper models offered by Yamaha in their "Rare Animals of the World" papercraft series. The complete list of animals available include a tiger, a California condor, a great Indian rhinoceros, a gorilla, yellow-eyed penguins, an African elephant, and a coelacanth fish. The printable PDF templates for the models may be downloaded here. Each of the templates comes in two versions: a "lines only" version meant to be printed on color cardstock and a color version meant to be printed on white cardstock.

Other Papercraft Animals:

Snow Leopard
Siberian Chipmunk
Arabian Scorpion
Reticulated Giraffe
Thresher Shark

Origami Penguin

Is that you Gunter? ^^ This origami penguin is one of the many designs of origami artist Jo Nakashima. As should be obvious, the penguin was created from a single square of paper that is black on one side and white on the other. A video tutorial on how to fold this origami may be found here. Build photo by Jessica Jones.

Other Papercraft Penguins:
Penguin Finger Puppet
Rock Hopper Penguins
Cute Penguin Paper Toy

Cute Animal Papercraft Finger Puppets

Here are some cute animal finger puppets from the Japanese website "Terra Cotta". In addition to the cat, dog, penguin and duck shown here, there is also a "smiling" grey cat puppet available. The construction of these papercraft animal puppets is very simple and consists primarily of hollow paper cones and tubes. Look for the download links under the pictures of the puppets here.

Papercraft Rockhopper Penguins

These papercraft rockhopper penguins look a little grumpy. Maybe they are upset about being on the endangered species list. ;) There are several different species of rockhopper penguins, which are also called "crested penguins" (for obvious reason). These papercraft ones look most like the northern rockhopper penguin species. The templates for the two penguins are available for download here.

Cute Animal Papercraft

Here are some super cute papercraft animals by Japanese designer Ryo Tokisato. You gotta love them! In addition to the penguin, shark, chameleon, and rabbit shown here, there are also available a fox, a boar, a sperm whale, mice (in six different colors), and two different cows. The PDF templates for each of these may be downloaded at Tokisato's web page here. Once at the web page, click on the photo of the animal to download the template.