go to DLTK's Homepage
25 Newest  Activites
Top 10 Activities

  
[All Animals]   [All Easter]   [All Birds]   [All Farm Animals]   [more Chicks]   [more Handprint Crafts]   [more Paper Crafts]
  

DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Handprint Chick Paper Craft

This cute chick will give you something to remember those little crafting fingers with.  (It makes a great gift for long distance grandparents!)

Materials:

bullet

a printer, 

bullet

paper for the printer,

bullet

yellow or white construction paper

bullet

scissors, 

bullet

glue,

bullet

crayons (or something else to colour with). 

Instructions:  

bullet

Print out the template of choice.
  

bullet

Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces. 
  

bullet

Glue the face pieces (circle eyes and triangle beak) onto the head.
  

bullet

Glue the legs onto the body.
  

bullet

Now comes the fun part!  Trace your child's hands onto another piece of paper (yellow construction paper works well or use white paper and colour in).
  

bullet

Glue the hands onto the body (thumbs up) to form wings.

Alternative decorating ideas:

bullet

Instead of gluing on the wings, you can use brass bendable tack things so the wings can be moved (I always forget what those things are called!)
  

bullet

If you don't have a colour printer, you can print one black & white copy on yellow construction paper and a second copy on white.  Then mix and match the pieces.
  

bullet

Buy feathers (or pluck your old feather duster!) and glue a few feathers onto the top of the chick's head.

 
bulletClose the template window after printing to return to this screen. 
   
bulletSet page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP in most browsers). 
 

Template   (color)   or   (B&W)

 
 

 

Printable version of these instructions