Printable Goat Mask

printable goat mask for kids

Sure-footed, stubborn and with those wonderful rectangular pupils - our printable goat mask is a farm favourite with genuine personality! Goats have been companions to humans for over 10,000 years and have a reputation for mischief, curiosity and eating absolutely everything in sight. Perfect for farm animal school plays, Three Billy Goats Gruff productions, World Book Day, birthday parties, and adventurous imaginative play on any terrain.

A versatile farm animal mask that works for fairy tales as much as it does for farming topics - and the Three Billy Goats Gruff connection makes it a natural World Book Day choice that even the youngest children will recognise. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Goats!

  • Goats have rectangular pupils - a horizontal slit rather than a round pupil - which gives them a 320-degree field of vision and allows them to see almost all the way around themselves without turning their head.
  • They were one of the first animals domesticated by humans, over 10,000 years ago in the Zagros Mountains of what is now Iran - before sheep, cattle or pigs.
  • Goats are extraordinarily agile climbers - mountain goats can scale near-vertical cliff faces and have been spotted perching in argan trees in Morocco to eat the fruit at the top.
  • Despite their reputation for eating everything, goats are actually quite selective feeders - they investigate objects with their lips and mouths but tend to eat only plants they find genuinely tasty.
  • Goats have accents - research has shown that their calls vary between social groups, meaning goats in different herds develop subtly different vocalisations, much like regional dialects.