The ultimate Aussie icon - our printable kangaroo mask is a guaranteed hit! With those powerful hind legs, long ears and that famous pouch, the kangaroo is one of the most recognisable animals on the planet. Perfect for Australian animals school plays, marsupials classroom projects, World Book Day, birthday parties, and bounding imaginative adventures across the outback (or the living room carpet).

The kangaroo appears on the Australian coat of arms, which makes it a natural fit for world cultures and geography topics as well as straightforward animal fun - a mask that earns its place in any classroom resource drawer. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Kangaroos!

A baby kangaroo (joey) is born after just 33 days gestation - it's the size of a jellybean, blind and barely formed, but somehow crawls unaided through its mother's fur into her pouch where it completes its development.
Kangaroos can't hop backwards - which is one of the reasons they appear on the Australian coat of arms alongside the emu, both chosen to symbolise a nation that can only move forward.
A mob of kangaroos is led by the largest male, known as the old man or boomer - he can reach over 2 metres tall when standing upright and weigh up to 90kg.
Kangaroos use their tail as a fifth limb - when moving slowly, they push off the ground with it, and it acts as a powerful counterbalance when hopping at speed.
Female kangaroos can pause a pregnancy - a process called embryonic diapause allows them to delay the development of a fertilised egg until the current joey in the pouch is ready to leave.

Printable Kangaroo Mask

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