Paper Plate Chick Craft for Kids – Spring Craft for Preschoolers

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Looking for a cute spring craft idea to keep your preschoolers and kindergarteners occupied? Then this super simple and cute paper plate chick craft is the perfect craft activity for them this spring season!

Paper Plate Chick Craft

Paper Plate Chick Craft

This paper plate chick craft is a great activity for preschoolers and kindergarteners and can be used in so many ways.

You can opt to use this craft as part of a farm unit, adult and baby animals, or just a simple spring craft.

Since this is a super simple and easy paper plate craft, it is a great craft activity ‘craftivity’ for your younger learners, preschoolers and kindergarteners.

Read on to get the directions needed and have fun with this fun spring chick craftivity!

Supplies Needed

  • Paper plate
  • Yellow paint
  • 2 large googly eyes
  • Yellow feathers
  • Orange felt square
  • Paintbrush
  • Glue
  • Scissors

Orange card stock or construction paper will work as well, if you don’t have any felt on hand.

Directions to Create the Paper Plate Chick Craft

Gather the supplies for this craft. The required supplies are listed under ‘Supplies’.

Paper Plate chick Craft supplies

Start off by painting the paper plate yellow.

Make sure the whole paper plate is painted.

Paper Plate chick Craft painting

Leave it aside to dry completely.

Paper Plate chick Craft yellow plate

Using the orange felt, cut out a triangle shape for the beak.

Paper Plate chick Craft cut out the beak

Cut out two legs, similar to the one shown in the picture.

If you do not have orange felt you can always use orange colored card stock or construction paper.

Paper Plate chick Craft cut out the legs

Now, it’s time to glue on everything.

First, glue on the 2 googly eyes near the middle of the paper plate.

Take the triangular beak just under the eyes and glue it into place.

Paper Plate chick Craft glue the eyes and beak

Take the legs and glue them at the bottom. Glue it to the back of the paper plate.

Paper Plate chick Craft glue the legs

Finally, take the feathers and glue down the feathers at the top of the chicks head and on the sides to represent the wings.

Paper Plate chick Craft stick on the feathers

I love using these feathers liberally because it adds such a fun sensory touch to the craft at the end.

Paper Plate chick Craft side feathers

And you’re done! Isn’t this chick so cute and adorable?

Paper Plate chick Craft finished craft

Making the Craft Activity Simple

There are a couple of ways that you can choose to make this craftivity simpler especially if you would like to do this with younger learners like toddlers.

Firstly, you can choose to use yellow colored paper plates. This would remove the painting process, which is likely the messiest step in this whole craft. You would also not have to wait until the paper plate dries to begin the craft.

Chick Paper Plate Craft

If your learners are not familiar with using scissors, cut apart the pieces (beak and legs) for them ahead of time, so all they will have to do is to paste them.

That’s all! This paper plate chick craft is a super simple craft that I am sure your learners will enjoy and love creating!

Paper Plate Chick Craft

Paper Plate chick Craft finished craft

Make this super adorable paper plate chick craft for a spring or farm animal unit!

Time:
25 minutes
Difficulty:
Easy

Materials and Tools

  • Paper plate
  • Yellow paint
  • 2 large googly eyes
  • Yellow feathers
  • Orange felt square
  • Paintbrush
  • Glue
  • Scissors

Instructions

  1. Paint the paper plate yellow. Set aside to dry completely.
  2. Cut out a triangular beak and 2 legs from the orange felt or orange cardstock.
  3. Glue the 2 googly eyes in the middle of the paper plate.
  4. Glue the beak just below the eyes.
  5. Take the legs and glue it to the back of the paper plate.
  6. Finally, take the feathers and glue it at the top for the chick’s head and the sides to represent the wings.
  7. Set aside to dry and then display your cute paper plate chick craft!

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