This spring chick craft would make a great Easter decoration!
We love making simple paper crafts, especially the 3D variety, and this craft idea is a fun open-ended project that kids can make their own!
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Displaying a baby chick and a mother hen is a great idea for Easter.
We hope this simple craft idea will inspire lots of different designs for your kids to make (we plan on sharing a few more ideas as well). We really think this is the “essence” of crafting, to see how a project is made, to make it, and then apply the technique to your own creations.
This craft can easily be done by preschoolers (who may need some help folding the base), kindergarteners, and older children. As with all craft ideas, some modifications are needed to make the craft age-appropriate (use larger circles, leave out the grass, make just one chick, etc.). Older children can even add more details like flowers, Easter eggs in the grass, etc.
This project is great for the classroom, you can have each child create their own spring chick and then you can line them up side by side to make a big, beautiful meadow full of chicks.
Ready to create your own screen? Let’s get started!
Also, if you would like to see a printable template for this craft, let me know in the comments!
Let’s create!
Spring Chick Crafts
What you need to make this spring chick craft
- green paper (we use regular printer paper)
- dark blue paper
- white paper
- orange paper
- yellow paper
- eye markers or vibrating eye stickers
- glue
- drag
- something to form a circle
- pencil
We have prepared both a video tutorial for your convenience and a step-by-step guide with pictures, in which we also share more tips and tricks to make this craft.
Watch Video Tutorial
Or follow the step-by-step instructions below
Take a piece of green paper and fold it in half.
Run your finger along the crease to create a crease.
Once the paper is folded in half, fold it again from the bottom – one open side (about 3 fingers wide).
Open the paper.
Glue the triangular tunnel.
Apply glue along one of the “flaps” you folded in the previous step and glue it to the other one. You should have a shape like the one in the picture below.
This is the craft base for our spring chick.
Now it’s time to create a yellow circle.
This circle should be smaller than the white circle because the chicks will be smaller than the hens.
We use jar lids for this purpose.
Draw that shape on paper and cut out the circle.
Use a larger round object to draw the white circle.
We use cookie jar lids.
Cut it out.
Other items that might be useful are: cups, plates, ice cream containers, bottles…
Fold the circles in half.
Cut a beak out of orange paper and glue it to the chick.
Do the same with the chicken.
Cut out the wings and glue them onto the chick and hen.
Make eyes!
We love using stickers for those purposes but drawing or using glasses is definitely fun too!
Apply some glue to the green base (or to the chicken) and glue the chick to the base.
Do the same with the chicken.
Take the darker green paper, cut a strip thinner than the height of the green base.
Cut long triangles to resemble grass.
Glue to the green base.
Your Spring Chick craft is finished and ready to display!
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