Can you believe how quickly Easter is approaching this year! It always throws me off when it comes early.
We decided we needed to get started on our Easter and springtime crafts. We are so ready to move on from winter crafts to bright cheerful springtime crafts.
We started with this super easy Paper Plate Chick.
My kids love to visit our local farm store around Easter and see the baby chicks, ducks, and rabbits. Then I hear for few weeks after about how we need baby chicks. I admit they are really cute, but I don’t think the neighbors would appreciate the cuteness especially as they got older.
Paper Plate Chick Craft
Supplies:
Paper plate
Yellow paint
Yellow feathers
Orange paper
Googly eyes
Glue stick
Directions:
This paper plate chick is really easy to make. With a little help and supervision, it is suitable for kids as young toddlers.
1. Paint paper plate yellow and allow to dry.
2. Glue a few feathers to the top of the paper plate.
3. Glue 2 googly eyes to the front of the paper plate chick.
4. Cut a beak and feet from the orange paper and glue to the plate.
This paper plate chick would also make a great craft when studying farm animals.
Written by About a Mom contributor, Kim. Kim, the mama behind , is a medical social worker turned stay at home mom to three. She enjoys sharing simple crafts and activities, parenting and homemaking tips, and a lot of holiday fun.
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love Habitat Your environment could be a basic box, aquarium,
cat carrier, or guinea
porker cage. Line it with old towels and
coverings (without any loose
strings!) to begin, and after a few weeks make use of straw over newspaper.
Keep in mind: Avoid utilizing only
newspaper or other slipper
surfaces-- or your chicks legs can expand
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water in, such as a chicken feeder as well as water
recipe from the feed shop, or a pickle jar
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light bulb additionally work very
well (my
recommendation). Chicks require this
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replaced with plumes (which could take up to 2 months). The freshly
hatched require a temperature
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as well as weekly this could
be decreased by
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warmth (not simply snuggling),
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Home cleaning
Sanitation is essential and it maintains your chicks healthy. Make certain to alter
the bed linens
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enough whatsoever times and examine
usually to prevent dehydrated and also
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initial two months, then
switch over to a grower food (~ 17 %
healthy protein) for one more 2 months,
and then to a somewhat
lower healthy protein feed or a layer feed
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dirt baths, while others won't take
up that activity up until they are
older. If you have the room in your chick
unit, present a tray of sand or
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