Make this easy geometric chicken craft to celebrate Spring!
Cut out simple geometric shapes and glue them onto a sheet of coloured construction paper to make a mother hen with three baby chicks tucked under her wing.
Chickens and their adorable, fluffy, offspring are favourite farm animals of kids around the world. Adults too (let’s face it, who can resist holding a cheeping, day-old chick in their hand?).
Don’t forget the lucky mother hen and how she tucks her little babies safely under her wings to keep them warm.
This easy Spring craft explores the geometric 2D shapes of triangles, ovals, circles and semi-circles and incorporates them into a lift-the-flap craft.
When the craft is complete, kids can lift mama’s wing to reveal a trio of baby chicks—just like in real life.
It’s also great fine motor practice using scissor skills along with folding and gluing simple shapes. It’s perfect for kids aged K-2. The finished craft makes a cute Spring-themed bulletin board idea or wall art for at home.
Ready to get started?
How to make a geometric chicken craft
You will need:
• Construction paper in yellow, orange, red and one other colour for the background. White paper for the eyes.
• Glue stick
• Scissors
• Shredded paper
• Black pen or marker
• This printable template available in our shop, and also in our TPT store
How to:
Print out the template and gather your supplies. For larger groups of children use the teacher pack (featured in the video) and print the templates directly onto the coloured paper using the key provided in the template.
Staple the semi circle and triangle to orange paper, then cut them out.
Staple the smaller semicircle shape and the chicken’s comb shape to red paper, cut out.
Staple the ovals and single triangle to yellow and the 3 mini triangles to orange. Cut out along with eye.
Discard the white paper and assemble the coloured geometric pieces for crafting.
Glue the large semi circle onto a sheet of paper. Add the orange triangle to make a tail.
Add the yellow triangular beak and the chicken comb shape.
Glue on the eye and fold the straight part of the smaller semi circle (wing shape) over to create a tab for gluing.
Glue the wing into place.
Glue the three ovals into place underneath the wing.
Glue the beaks on, and use a black pen or marker to draw sleeping eyes.
Glue shredded paper across bottom to create “hay”.
Super easy and fun!
More Spring crafts and printable for kids
• Make an Easter Bunny or Easter Chick basket kids will love
• Here are cute some paper chicks in a newspaper nest
• Make butterfly squish art using our printable template
• There are more than 40 more ideas in our Spring craft bucket list! Check them out
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