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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:

  • a printer,
  • paper for the printer,
  • yellow or white construction paper
  • scissors,
  • glue,
  • crayons (or something else to colour with).

Instructions: 

  • Print out the template of choice.
     

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

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

  • Glue the legs onto the body.
     

  • 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).
     

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

Alternative decorating ideas:

  • 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!)
     

  • 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.
     

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

 

  • Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
       
  • Set 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