Abstract: A collection element for animal feces including a container to contain the feces collected and a shovel to collect the feces and, in a completely closed position before being used, is pocket sized and flat in shape. The collection element for animal feces is made from a single sheet of rigid or semi-rigid paper, cardboard or other analogous or comparable material, shaped and foldable along a plurality of folding lines and suitably glued on a very limited part of its surface, wherein a part of the single sheet constitutes the container selectively closable on one side, and another part constitutes the shovel, separable, in use, from the single sheet and hence from the container, along a pre-cutting line.