Keep the kids busy creating this adorable foam cup chick for Easter and spring! Perch this cutie atop a shelf or cabinet to enjoy.
Age Group: Kids Crafts
Project Type: Easter
Supplies
18 oz foam cup
Yellow and black craft paint
Orange card stock
Yellow patterned scrapbook paper
1yellow or orange pipe cleaner
Tools:scissors, black marker, toothpick, hot glue gun or white craft glue
Instructions
Paint the outside of the foam cup yellow and allow to dry.
Cut simple wings and feet from yellow scrapbook paper. Cut a triangle for the beak from orange card stock. Cut pipe cleaner it half. Line the two halves up next to each other and cut off 1-inch from each one.
When paint has dried, glue the wings to the sides of the cup. Glue the orange triangle to the front of the cup. Poke two holes in the top-front (near the rim) of the cup and insert the two long pipe cleaners. Poke two holes in the bottom of the cup (will be the top of the chick's head)and insert the two small pipe cleaners. Add a little glue to all the pipe cleaners near the holes.
Glue the paper feet to the end of the legs. Use the handle end of a paintbrush to dot on two eyes and draw eyebrows on with black marker. Bend the legs and sit your chick on a shelf.