Easter Craft – Easy Peasy Chick

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I know Easter is a while off yet but we were in the mood for a bit of Springtime at the weekend and an Easter craft seemed to fit the bill (pun intended).

Easter chicks made from sheets of foam, with googly eyes and card feet.

I like the way mine is looking a little afraid and his is looking a bit wicked!

To Make  Easter Chicks

You will need

  • 1 sheet of yellow funky foam or cardboard for the body
  • 1 sheet of orange cardboard for the feet
  • googly eyes
  • a little bit of orange funky foam for the beak (if you’re using cardboard you will already have plenty!)

Method

  • Draw around an egg cup on the yellow funky foam or cardboard – he discovered that you don’t actually need to do this for the foam, you can just press down and the egg cup leaves a print

Young boy using a pencil and an egg cup to mark out a circle on a sheet of yellow foam.

  • Cut around the circle
  • Cut a triangle of orange foam or cardboard for a beak and stick it on with glue – or, if you’re Bonus Boy, decide that glue just won’t cut it and come up with a self crafted peg instead

Attaching a triangle of orange foam to make a beak.

  • Snip off the top of the peg if you’re going for the emergent engineer option
  • Stick on a googly eye
  • Cut the feet out of orange cardboard

Template for the chicks' feet with measurements.

  • You can download the template here as a PDF : Chick feet template fold the cardboard up where you see the dotted line and pop your chick on top!

Two finished chicks standing together on the table.

 

7 Comments

  1. maggy, red ted art on January 30, 2013 at 2:21 pm

    Oooh I love the genius little legs. How cute are these chicks!! Wonderful.

    Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty.

    Maggy

    Reply
    • Chris on January 30, 2013 at 5:31 pm

      So many possibilities for those legs!

      Reply
  2. Lucy on January 30, 2013 at 9:06 pm

    So cute! Could put on a cupcake? Just got sent a link through for the MAD blog awards so voted for you 🙂

    Reply
    • Chris on January 31, 2013 at 9:30 am

      Oh Lucy, how kind! Thank you! 🙂 If you made them a little smaller you could definitely pop them on a cupcake, brilliant idea! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Hannah on January 31, 2013 at 10:17 pm

    Ooh love these- they could be adapted to Robins for Christmas craft (planning ahead..!) Toddler’s favourite thing is Happy Feet at the moment so I think we’ll be making these and perhaps some penguin ones. Thanks for the idea! X

    Reply
    • Chris on February 1, 2013 at 10:11 am

      Brilliant! I love the penguin idea, thank you! 🙂

      Reply
  4. riek on March 7, 2013 at 8:04 am

    Love it

    Reply

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