Spring Chicks Craft | Activities

Create your very own barnyard animal!

Allow your child some time on their own to create something fun while exploring different textures. This isn’t a very messy activity but glue tends to travel with kiddos so having them stay in one place is a good idea. Let your child place the eyes, beak and feathers on the tube however they believe a chick looks like. Once finished, they’ll be so excited to learn more about the animal that they just created!

✂️ How do I adapt this exercise for younger kiddos? For the glueing you may need to help with some hand over hand, but let them pick the placements of the feathers and tissues.

📚 Books to explore: Little Chick by Amy Hest, Chicken in Space by Adam Lehrhaupt, and Chicken Big by Keith Graves.

Materials

For this Activity you will need:

Toilet paper rolls
Yellow feathers
Yellow tissue paper
Yellow paper
Orange paper
Googly eyes
Glue

Learning Outcomes

Domain

Cognition

Skills

Representation

Indicators:

Using a variety of materials to build with and express their ideas.

Instructions

Step 1:

Cut the yellow paper and tissue paper into small squares.

Step 2:

Cut the orange paper into small triangles.

Step 3:

Lay out some yellow feathers and the googly eyes.

Step 4:

Glue the items onto the toilet paper roll to create a chicken. Use the googly eyes as the eyes, orange triangles for the beak and feet, yellow squares for the body (exploring the 2 kinds of paper for different textures), and feathers for the wings.