Plastic Easter Egg Chick
Turn a simple plastic Easter egg into a sweet little chick craft for spring. This easy Easter craft for kids is a fun way to reuse plastic eggs and create a cute decoration for Easter baskets, classroom activities, or holiday displays. Older children can make this craft on their own, while younger kids will need adult help for the drilling step.
Supplies
- Yellow mini plastic egg, about 1.25 inches in diameter and 1.75 inches long
- Orange cardstock
- Yellow embroidery floss
- Embroidery needle
- Googly eyes
- Glue stick
- Hot glue gun
- Craft hand drill
- Scalloped oval punch
- Heart punch
Instructions
- Punch six orange cardstock hearts. Stack and glue them together with a glue stick to make sturdy chick feet. Set aside and let them dry completely.
- Carefully drill two small holes into the top of the plastic egg from the inside. Be sure to protect your work surface with a block of wood, thick cardboard, or a stack of magazines.
- Thread yellow embroidery floss through an embroidery needle. Feed the floss through both holes several times so it creates a fluffy tuft on top of the chick’s head.
- Leave a long loop of floss on the outside as you wrap it around your fingers. Cut the floss at the center, then tie it together in a knot to create the chick’s feather tuft.
- Punch a scalloped oval from cardstock and cut it in half to make two wings.
- Glue the wings to the back of the egg.
- Add googly eyes to the front of the egg.
- Cut a small beak from orange cardstock and glue it in place.
- Once the wings are secure, glue the finished chick onto the stacked heart base.
Tips
- This craft is best for older kids or for younger children with adult assistance.
- Use extra floss if you want a fuller tuft of feathers.
- Make several chicks in different egg sizes for a fun Easter display.
- Try turning plastic eggs into other animals for even more easy crafts for kids.
Fun Facts
Chicks use a small pointed egg tooth on their beak to help crack through the shell when they hatch. Baby chicks are covered in soft down feathers, which help keep them warm until their grown feathers come in.
Patterns, Templates and Printables
This craft uses simple punched and hand-cut cardstock pieces rather than printable templates. You can create the wings, beak, and base pieces from cardstock scraps you already have on hand.
Teacher Friendly Educational Extension
This printable-free Easter craft works well as a classroom activity for spring parties or art centers. Children can practice fine motor skills by stacking shapes, threading floss, and assembling the chick pieces. Teachers can also extend the lesson by having students describe their chick with simple writing prompts, count the heart shapes used for the base, or compare how different shapes can be combined to make animals.
Supplies
Craft Hand Drill
L Squeeze Punch - Chicky Baby
M Squeeze Punch - That's Amore
Easy Squeeze Glue Gun
Yellow mini plastic egg (approximately 1.25" diameter, 1.75" long)
Cardstock
Embroidery floss
Embroidery needle
Googly eyes
Glue stick
Editor's Note: This craft is appropriate for the older crafter or with adult assistance for younger crafters.
Instructions
Punch six hearts from orange cardstock and adhere in a stack using glue stick. Set aside to dry fully.
Drill two small holes into top of egg from inside.
Using embroidery needle, feed yellow embroidery floss through both holes several times leaving a large section outside egg (easiest to wrap around fingers). Cut at center of floss and tie together in a knot.
Punch scalloped oval and cut in half to form wings.
Use Easy Squeeze Glue Gun to glue wings to back of chick, as well as eyes and hand cut beak.
Once wings are dry, glue completed chick onto heart base using Easy Squeeze Glue Gun.
Note:Â When drilling both projects, be sure to properly protect work surface with block of wood, stack of magazines, etc.
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