DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Handprint Chick Paper Craft

Contributed by Leanne Guenther

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 color with).

Instructions:

• Print out the template of choice.
• Color (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 color 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 color 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.

Templates:

• 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)