Paper Plate Easter Chick craft for kids! A fun Easter and Spring paper plate craft! Check out our list of spring Paper Plate Crafts! 

Paper Plate Easter Chick Kids Craft

Spring is finally here, and that means that Easter is right around the corner.

These paper plate Easter chicks hatching from their eggs is the cutest craft we have created thus far!

It’s the perfect colorful Easter craft that kids love making and playing with.

They will make the perfect puppet craft for kids to make imaginary playtime more fun.

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Materials Needed For Easter Craft For Kids

We love creating crafts with paper plates, and this one is no exception.

Here is a list of the materials you will need to make the craft, and below, you will find the links to each item I used.

• 2 Paper plates
• Different colored paints
• Orange construction paper
• Googly eyes
• Sponge cut into small squares
• Thin paintbrush
• Gold glitter (optional)
• Pencil
• Craft glue
• Scissors
• Roundhead fasteners

How To Make A Paper Plate Easter Egg Chick

I tried to explain the instructions below as clearly as possible to make it easy for you to recreate with your students or kids.

Some steps will take a little bit more time because of drying time, but it’s a fun craft.

If you have any questions, check out the video I made of putting all the craft pieces together.

• Sponge-paint your entire paper plate yellow for your chick.
• Instead of painting our paper plates yellow, we decided to sponge paint our paper plates instead.
• I poured some yellow paint on another paper plate and added some gold glitter to the color to give it some sparkle.
• Set aside your yellow plate and allow it to dry completely.
• While your yellow paper plates dry, start working on your chick’s exterior eggshell.
• Encourage your child to make an Easter egg design on the paper plate using a pencil. You can see above what my oldest daughter created.
• Once they have penciled in their design, it’s time to paint them.
• Encourage your child to use lots of bright colors to paint in the design they created for their chick’s egg.
• Allow your paper plate egg to dry completely.
• Draw a large triangle or a chick’s beak on orange construction paper for them to cut out. Set aside.
• Using the orange construction paper, cut out two long strips.
• Fold each orange construction paper strip with an accordion fold (see instructions below).
• Set aside for later.
• Once your yellow paper plate is dry, create your chick.
• Glue your googly eyes on the yellow paper plate, beak, and legs.
• Now allow these pieces to dry before attaching your Easter egg to the chick.

Easy Accordion Fold Instructions For Kids

Accordion Fold is an excellent crafting method to use in kids’ crafts for practicing fine motor skills.

This used to be one of my student’s favorite types of crafts because they got to fold their construction paper in a fun, silly way while getting their little fingers strong and ready for writing skills.

• To make accordion legs, fold down your paper into a square.
• Then fold the opposite way.
• Keep folding back and forth until the entire strip is one square.
• Let go, and you will have an accordion-folded paper strip.

Be patient with your kiddos or students. This is not an easy task for preschoolers to master immediately.

Adding Easter Chick’s Eggshell

Now it’s time to make it look like your chick is hatching out.

• To attach your egg to the chick, lay your paper plate egg over it.
• Using the tips of your scissors, add a small hole on the top and bottom of the plate to insert your brackets.

You do this to ensure that your Easter egg is completely lined up with your chick.

So that you can open and close the eggshell.

• Cut off your paper plate egg from your chick in a zig-zag motion to create a cracking egg.
• Attach the top part of your paper plate egg on your chick using the hole you marked earlier.
• Then attach the bottom part of the paper plate egg on the yellow paper plate using the hole you also marked up before.

That’s it!

Now you have the cutest little Paper Plate Easter Chick Kids Craft!

Video On How To Make Easter Craft For Kids

What Are Kids Learning With Crafts

One of my favorite reasons to add crafts into lessons is to ensure my daughters can use their imagination and creativity.

Not only are they creating by coming up with an idea or a vision, but they are also practicing fine motor skills.

We don’t realize how much work their little fingers and hands do when kids are creating art.

Crafts like this keep kids entertained and excited about learning all while practicing how to use their

• Scissors
• Glue
• Fingers
• Coloring
• Painting
• and so much more!

Fun Easter Books About Chicks For Kids

I added a list of fun Easter books for the kids to enjoy after making their Easter Egg Chicks!

More Easter Crafts And Activities For Kids

         

How will you be celebrating Easter?