Build-a-Cat! Free Printable Halloween Paper Cat Template Craft

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Use this free printable paper cat template to build-a-cat for Halloween! This fun craft helps children to improve their cutting and pasting skills, as well as the opportunity to get creative with other materials too – like sticking on pink felt for the ears, or adding a little bell collar!

Use this free printable paper cat template to build-a-cat for Halloween!

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Build A Paper Cat Template

I introduced my cute chubby roly-poly Halloween characters a few years ago, and have used them in various Halloween printables too. The set currently includes the following characters: Bat, Black Cat, Lil’ Devil, Dracula, Frankenstein, Ghost, Pumpkin, Purple Pumpkin, Werewolf, and Witch.

This year, after lots of requests, I’m turning them all into buildable templates like my Build-An-Animal series of characters. And like my animal characters, these Halloween characters are also getting names!

Introducing – Cosmo the Cat!

Cosmo the Cat

My cute chubby little [animal] characters are anthropomorphic, which basically means that they’ll have human traits – like standing on two legs instead of four.

And of course, they are far from realistic! I go for cute when I create characters for my printables!

As with all my printables, they come in two paper sizes – A4 and US Letter (8.5″ x 11″)

You can find the black and white version to color with crayons/makers in our Purple Pumpkin Printables Shop.

I’ve created two sizes for this cute free printable paper cat: Regular size, which is what you see above, with all of the pieces on one sheet of paper, and Large size with the pieces spread over several sheets – which you can see in the photo further down the page.

Since I make my characters from fairly simple shapes, I think they’ll be less fiddly to cut out than my Build-an-Olaf series of printables.

The regular size printable is for adults to cut out, or for children that are more skilled at cutting. The large size should be a lot easier for younger children. Or you could cut the pieces out for them. Of course, you know your children, so will know what suits them best!

Download your chosen printable from the list further down the page (they’re surrounded by a box!), and print onto thick paper or thin card. Cut the pieces out, then build a cat for Halloween!

You could stick pieces together with a glue stick, roller glue, or sticky tape. You could mount it onto a larger piece of paper and use other craft materials to embellish it – furry material, glitter, googly eyes, sequins, buttons, tissue paper, for example. You could laminate the pieces so that they can be re-assembled over and over again! Most of all, just have fun with this printable!

paper cat template

Download Large Build-a-Cat Template

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Download Regular Build-a-Cat Template

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Other Halloween Characters in This Series

You could mix up the different elements for added fun to create completely new Halloween characters!

The post is part of the Crafty October series on The Purple Pumpkin Blog. Check out Crafty October from 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012 for awesome Halloween ideas and inspiration, including recipes, printables, crafts, and more!

Crafty October on The Purple Pumpkin Blog

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