Free Printable Camel Stencils & Templates (PDF)

Ride into the desert with these printable camel templates! With their long legs, gentle faces and famous humps, camels are the ultimate desert travellers. Colour them, cut them out, or download the PDF to print at full size. They're perfect for desert and zoo animal themes, habitat projects and classroom crafts. Pick a camel below and print or download it.

Desert crafts and a handprint camel

Build a whole desert scene: colour your camel in sandy browns, then add golden dunes, a bright sun and a few palm trees. For a fun keepsake, make a handprint camel — the palm becomes the body and the fingers become the legs. Glue your camel to a craft stick for a puppet, or stand a caravan of them up in a row.

One hump or two?

Here's a great question to explore: how many humps does a camel have? A camel with one hump is called a "dromedary" (or Arabian camel), and one with two humps is a "Bactrian" camel. And those humps don't store water like many people think — they're actually full of fat, which the camel uses for energy when food is scarce. No wonder the camel is nicknamed the "ship of the desert"!

C is for Camel, and the Nativity

Camels are great for the letter "C", and they also have a special place at Christmas — camels are often shown in the Nativity scene, carrying the three wise men across the desert. For more hot-climate animals, add a fennec fox, a meerkat or a lizard, and explore the full animals collection.