Big Paper Squishy Templates: 5 Cozy Animals

These are our big paper squishy templates: five cozy animals that fill a whole page each, about 24 cm (9.5 inches) tall. A brown bear, a calico cat, a woolly lamb, a pink piglet and a puppy with floppy ears — all tall, soft shapes with paw prints or hooves, made to be squeezed. Every design comes as a color template, a black-and-white version to color and an instruction sheet with pictures.

What’s in the set

Each template has two pages: page 1 is the front, page 2 is the back, printed at the same scale so they match. The pieces are about 15 × 24 cm with the white border, which makes them twice the size of a classic paper squishy and much more fun to hold. The puppy is the widest, the piglet the easiest to cut, and the lamb has the fluffiest edge.

How to make a big paper squishy

1. Print both pages of the color or the coloring template at 100% (“actual size”) on Letter or A4. Check the 2 cm guide.
2. Tape over the printed side of both pieces with wide clear packing tape.
3. Cut along the dotted line, keeping the white border all the way round.
4. Join the front and the back blank sides together with short strips of tape. Leave a 4–5 cm opening at the bottom.
5. Stuff the ears first, then the body, loosely, and tape the opening shut.

The instruction sheet for every design walks through each step with its own pictures.

Ideas

• Pillow buddies: a big squishy is soft enough to hold during story time or a movie.
• Farm and pets: make the lamb and the piglet for a farm corner, the cat and the puppy for a pet shop game.
• Big and small: pair a big squishy with a small one from our animal sets — a parent and a baby.

All artwork is drawn by us and free for personal and classroom use — please link to this page instead of re-uploading the files.