DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Chick Hatching Egg Carton Craft

Contributed by Leanne Guenther

We used cotton balls to make this cute little chick, but you could substitute pom pom's.

Materials:

• two cotton balls
• egg carton cup
• orange construction paper scrap
• two small wiggly eyes
• glue,
• a tiny bit of yellow tempra paint or food color drops
• ziploc or other plastic bag

Instructions:

• The night before making the craft, put a bit of yellow tempra paint or yellow food color in a plastic bag.  Add a bit of water.  Don't use too much paint or your cotton balls will be crusty.  Just a wee bit will do.
• Add as many cotton balls as you'll be using (if you're making more than one chick) and smush gently until they soak up the yellow.  -- yes, smush is a technical craft term *grin*
• Dump them out onto a piece of wax paper or Aluminum foil to dry over night (or into an empty margarine container
• Cut the egg carton cup out of the egg carton.
• Trim small rectangles out around the edge so it looks like a cracked egg shell
• Dab a bit of glue into the bottom of the egg carton and insert one of the cotton balls for the chick body
• Dab a bit of glue and put the second cotton ball on top of the first
• Fold the construction paper in half and cut a triangle along the fold (so it looks like a diamond when unfolded).  Glue this beak onto the chick
• Glue the wiggly eyes on as well
• We made ours so it looked like the chick was facing up to the sky (like a hungry chick).  This had the added benefit of keeping the wiggly eyes from sliding off while they dried.