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Paper Plate Easter Chick Kids Craft

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March 30, 2020

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Create this easy Paper Plate Easter Chick Kids Craft perfect for springtime! Plus, don’t forget to create some more of our spring Paper Plate Crafts! 

Paper Plate Easter Chick Kids Craft

Paper Plate Easter Chick Kids Craft

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

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

It’s the perfect colorful Easter craft that kids will love to make and play with.

Plus, they will make the perfect puppet craft for kids to make imaginary playtime more fun.

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Easter Craft For Kids

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 of 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


Easter egg Craft For Kids

How To Make A Paper Plate Easter Egg Chick

I tried to explain the instructions below as clear as possible.

Some steps will take a little bit more time.

If you have any questions make sure to check out the video I made of putting all of 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 think my girls enjoyed this a lot more because it’s something they don’t always get to do.

I poured a bit of yellow paint on another paper plate and added some gold glitter to the paint 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 chicks outside eggshell.
  • Using a pencil encourage your child to make an Easter egg design on the paper plate. 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 chicks egg.
  • Allow your paper plate egg to dry completely.
  • On orange construction paper draw a large triangle or a chick’s beak for them to cut out. Set aside.
  • Using the orange construction paper cut out two long strips.
  • Fold each orange construction paper strip by doing an accordion fold.
  • Set aside.

Accordion Fold: fold down your paper into a square, then fold the opposite way, and keep doing this until the entire strip is one square. Let go and you will have an accordion-folded paper strip.

  • Once your yellow paper plate is dry it’s time to create your chick.
  • Glue on your googly eyes on the yellow paper plate along with the beak, and legs.
  • Now allow these pieces to dry before attaching your Easter egg to the chick.

How To Make Paper Plate Easter Chick Kids Craft

Now it’s time to add your Easter chicks eggshell to make it look like he is hatching out.

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

The reason you do this is to make sure that your Easter egg is completely lined up with your chick.

So that you are able to open and close the eggshell.

  • Take off your paper plate egg from your chick and cute 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 up earlier.
  • Then attach the bottom part of the paper plate egg on the yellow paper plate using the hole you marked up before as well.

That’ it!

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

Detailed Video On How To Make Easter Craft For Kids

Paper Plate Easter Craft - simplytodaylife.com

What Are Kids Learning With Crafts

One of my favorite reasons to add crafts into lessons is to make sure that my daughters are able to 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 kid entertained and excited about learning all while practicing how to use their

  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Fingers
  • Coloring
  • Painting
  • and so much more!
Paper Plate Easter Chick Craft For Kids

Easter Chick Craft For Kids

Yield: 1 Easter Chick
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Active Time: 30 minutes
Additional Time: 4 hours
Total Time: 4 hours 35 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Estimated Cost: $8

Create this easy and fun Easter Chick Hatching From An Egg Craft for kids!

Materials

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

Tools

  • Pencil
  • Craft glue
  • Scissors
  • Roundhead fasteners

Instructions

    1. I tried to explain the instructions below as clear as possible.
    2. Some steps will take a little bit more time.
    3. If you have any questions make sure to check out the video I made of putting all of the craft pieces together.
    4. Sponge paint your entire paper plate yellow for your chick.
    5. Instead of painting our paper plates yellow, we decided to sponge paint our paper plates instead.
    6. I think my girls enjoyed this a lot more because it’s something they don’t always get to do.
    7. I poured a bit of yellow paint on another paper plate and added some gold glitter to the paint to give it some sparkle.
    8. Set aside your yellow plate and allow it to dry completely.
    9. While your yellow paper plates dry start working on your chicks outside eggshell.
    10. Using a pencil encourage your child to make an Easter egg design on the paper plate. You can see above what my oldest daughter created.
    11. Once they have penciled in their design it’s time to paint them.
    12. Encourage your child to use lots of bright colors to paint in the design they created for their chicks egg.
    13. Allow your paper plate egg to dry completely.
    14. On orange construction paper draw a large triangle or a chick’s beak for them to cut out. Set aside.
    15. Using the orange construction paper cut out two long strips.
    16. Fold each orange construction paper strip by doing an accordion fold.
    17. Set aside.
    18. Accordion Fold: fold down your paper into a square, then fold the opposite way, and keep doing this until the entire strip is one square.
    19. Let go and you will have an accordion-folded paper strip.
    20. Once your yellow paper plate is dry it’s time to create your chick.
    21. Glue on your googly eyes on the yellow paper plate along with the beak, and legs.
    22. Now allow these pieces to dry before attaching your Easter egg to the chick.
    23. Now it’s time to add your Easter chicks eggshell to make it look like he is hatching out.
    24. To attach your egg to the chick simply take your paper plate egg and lay over your chick.
    25. Using the tips of your scissors add a small hole on the top and bottom of the plate to insert your brackets.
    26. The reason you do this is to make sure that your Easter egg is completely lined up with your chick.
    27. So that you are able to open and close the eggshell.
    28. Take off your paper plate egg from your chick and cute in a zig-zag motion to create a cracking egg.
    29. Attach the top part of your paper plate egg on your chick using the hole you marked up earlier.
    30. Then attach the bottom part of the paper plate egg on the yellow paper plate using the hole you marked up before as well.

Notes

I added all the notes in the instructions above to keep them organized and in order.

© Victoria
Project Type: Craft / Category: Crafts

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

Easter Bunny Craft For Kids    Thumbprint Easter Egg Craft    Preschool Easter Theme Pack  Easter Book For Kids

How will you be celebrating Easter?

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Victoria is a mom of two beautiful girls and wife to a supportive husband living in sunny Florida! She's on a mission to help moms create purposeful motherhood without the chaos. She loves to share simple family-friendly recipes, inspirational parenting tips, and ways to create habits for a peaceful home.

Comments

  1. susen @Dabbling Momma says

    March 31, 2015 at 9:30 pm

    so, so cute!!! Pinning!

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      April 1, 2015 at 9:15 pm

      Thank you šŸ™‚

      Reply
  2. Angela says

    April 1, 2015 at 9:01 am

    These are so cute! I have all of the supplies and we will be making them today, thanks!

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      April 1, 2015 at 9:15 pm

      YAY! I hope your kiddos enjoy making them as much as my girls did! Please share on our facebook page šŸ™‚

      Reply
  3. Caryl Ann Mason says

    January 15, 2019 at 1:29 pm

    These look like so much fun to make with the children. I’m going to have to definitely give them a go. My daughter would love it. She loves all things arts and crafts xx

    Reply
    • Victoria says

      January 18, 2019 at 9:31 am

      Yes, my girls absolutely love making crafts too! These were so much fun to make! Hope you all have just as much fun as we did making them! šŸ™‚

      Reply

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