Stocky, stubborn and secretly extraordinary - our printable wombat mask celebrates one of Australia's most underrated marsupials! The wombat is built like a small furry bulldozer, with powerful claws for digging, a backward-facing pouch and a bottom made of solid cartilage. With that round, bristly face and determined expression, this mask has real character. Perfect for Australian animals school plays, marsupials classroom projects, World Book Day, birthday parties, and solidly unstoppable imaginative play.

The wombat is the animal with the most surprising fact in the entire collection - its cubic droppings are genuinely one of the strangest things in the natural world, and children are utterly delighted by this information every time. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Wombats!

Wombats produce cubic droppings - they are the only animal in the world known to produce cube-shaped faeces. The shape is formed by the unusual structure of the wombat's intestine, and the cubes are used to mark territory on rocks and logs without rolling away.
Their bottom is made of cartilage - when threatened in their burrow, a wombat reverses in and presents its tough rump to the entrance. Predators that try to dig them out get their heads crushed against the tunnel roof.
Wombats are the fastest burrowing mammals in the world - they can excavate a metre of tunnel in a single night using their powerful front claws and dump the excavated earth with their hindquarters.
Their pouch faces backwards - unlike kangaroos, a wombat's pouch opens downward and toward the rear, preventing it from filling with soil when the wombat is digging.
Wombat burrows provide shelter for dozens of other species - during bushfires, animals including wallabies, possums, lizards and birds have been observed sheltering in wombat burrows, earning them the nickname 'ecosystem engineers'.

Printable Wombat Mask

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