Colorful Paper Plate Owl Craft Idea

It’s owl season! We love owl crafts and this colorful paper plate owl craft idea might be our favorite.

This would be a great craft for a classroom during fall or the spookiest time of year.

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We love giving our crafts some dimension and room for kids to be a little more creative so we thought hard about how to make a paper plate owl craft that was a little… Different.

You loved our rainbow fish paper plates (and we certainly did too) and since paper circles looked like they would work well as feathers, we decided to give them a try. And we loved it.

Our owl loves to rock pastel colored feathers, but can be made in a variety of color schemes (or just stick to one color). Not only does it look great, punching and punching out circles is always a fun process for kids. And gluing circles on owl crafts will help your little one practice their fine motor skills.

Are you ready to get crafty? Let’s make an owl!

How to Make a Colorful Paper Plate Owl

What you need:

• two paper plates (one larger than the other – if not, you can cut one to make it smaller, two the same size will work too)
• brown paint
• paintbrush (we like foam brushes)
• multicolor printing paper for feathers
• orange paper for beak and feet
• white paper for eyes
• tick
• round punch
• Scallop circle punch (optional)
• glue
• drag

If you want to make your owl a little more fancy, a little glitter is always a great option (when I say glitter, I mean glitter glue – the owl’s savior, the savior from glitter explosions).

Watch Video Tutorial

Or follow this step-by-step tutorial on how to make this colorful paper plate owl

Paint the paper plate brown. Let the paint dry before continuing.

Cut a triangle from orange paper (beak) and glue it onto the paper plate.

Use a circle punch to create eyes.

Of course you could just draw regular circles, but we think the scalloped outline will help it look more owl-like.

Finish the eyes and glue them to the paper plate.

Start punching circles! You’ll need quite a few!

Fold the circles in half.

Start gluing the circles onto the paper plate. You can start from the bottom up or from the top down.

Work up to about the middle of the paper plate (when you are happy with the shape of the feather).

Cut legs out of orange paper.

Glue them to the back of a paper plate.

Cut the remaining paper plate in half.

Glue two halves of a paper plate to either side of the paper plate owl to make wings.

And there you have it, a colorful paper plate owl craft to play with.

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