Turtle Parade Banners Printable Craft

05-11-25 |

Crafts

Arthur Lamb and Lucy Owl surrounded by other Hazel Village animals as they march in the Turtle Parade carrying colorful banners

The members of the Hazel Village Turtle Society go on s-l-o-w hikes through the forest, observing turtles and discussing conservation of turtle habitats. This year, they decided to have their very first Turtle Parade! The animals had great fun creating turtle-themed banners with which to march.

In case you might perhaps want to have a Turtle Parade of your own, we created this coloring page turtle banners craft! 🐢🐢🐢

closeup on a blue horizontal banner that reads Hazel Village Turtle Society and shows a pencil, a magnifying glass, and a line of green turtles

overhead of a tabletop with Lucas Rabbit, the turtle parade printouts, and craft supplies such as colored pencils

What you will need:

Printed Turtle Parade Craft PDF
Something to color with
Scissors
Glue
String
An assortment of sticks (9 in total, if you make 1 of each banner)
An embroidery needle (optional)

Color in all your banners before you cut them out, except for the turtle heart garland.

Most of these banners and flags are designed with tapered ends, which show you where to place the sticks. Apply glue to each banner and wrap the tapered end around the stick to attach it. Note: some of these banners require 2 sticks, 1 on each side.

A paper flag being glued to the end of a small stick

For the 'Turtles & We' banner, cut a small rectangular piece of scrap paper and glue it on the back to hold the stick in place.

a stick glued to the back of a paper flag, with a strip of paper securing it

If your animals need some help holding their banners, we recommend tying a piece of string first around their wrist, like this:

Lucas Rabbit's wrist with a green string tied around it

And then around the stick, finishing in a bow, like this:

the end of a stick tied to Lucas's wrist with the green string

To make the turtle heart garland, cut out the box as shown and then accordion-fold the paper along the dotted lines.

paper printout of turtle heard garland, folded along the dotted lines

With the paper folded up so you are cutting through 4 layers, carefully cut out each turtle. Make sure NOT to cut through their tails or their noses, where the line of turtles connects.

hands holding scissors cutting out the paper turtle garland

You should now have 2 paper cuttings, each made up of 4 turtles. Cut out the 3 hearts too, and then color it all in however you would like.

paper turtle garland colored in green, brown, and yellow, with red hearts

Next, fold each strip back up and use a needle to poke through the 2 circles, piercing all 4 layers. Poke through the holes on each heart as well.

a needle poking through the indicated hole in a folded paper turtle garland

Sew or thread a string through all the pieces of your banner so there is 1 heart on each end, and the last heart in the center. We tied each end of the string around a stick, but ended up using a little bit of tape as well.