Turtle Parade Banners Printable Craft

05-12-25 |

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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! 🐢🐢🐢

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.