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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experience of me. It can be a little frustrating waiting for the chicks
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Pennsylvania Baby chicks are extremely
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by compiling not just the
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environment Lots of food and also water Focus and
love Habitat Your habitat can be a basic box, aquarium,
feline provider, or guinea
pig cage. Line it with old towels as well as
blankets (without any loosened
strings!) to begin, and after a
couple of weeks utilize straw over newspaper.
Keep in mind: Avoid utilizing just
newspaper or various other sandal
surface areas-- or your chicks legs could expand
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something to provide food as well as
water in, such as a chicken feeder and also water
dish from the feed shop, or a pickle jar
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right into the habitat to obtain them
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hardware shop, or an infrared reptile heat
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suggestion). Chicks require this
warmth 24/7 up until their downy fluff is
replaced with plumes (which could use
up to 2 months). The freshly
hatched need a temperature
in between 90 and 100 degrees,
as well as each week this could
be minimized by
approximately 5 degrees or
so. The warmth source ought
to get on just one side of the cage
to enable chicks a variety of
temperature levels. The chicks are your ideal
thermostat- if they are hiding in the
opposite corner of your warmth
light, you have to
minimize the temperature level. If
they are surrounding each various other under the
warmth (not just snuggling),
you should put some warmth.
House cleaning
Cleanliness is vital and it keeps your chicks healthy and
balanced. Be sure to change
the bed linen
commonly and also
always supply tidy
food and water Food as well as water.
Chicks grow very quickly
which requires a lot of tidy
food and water. Provide
enough whatsoever times and also check
often to avoid dehydrated as well as
starving chicks. Chick food is different than grown-up chicken food, and also it can be found in both medicated and
also non-medicated ranges. Feed chick food for the
very first two months, then
switch over to a grower food (~ 17 %
protein) for one more 2 months,
and afterwards to a slightly
reduced healthy protein feed or a layer feed
(if you have layers). Soil Some chicks want
to obtain a head start on taking
dust baths, while others won't take
up that activity till they are
older. If you have the room in your chick
unit, introduce a tray of sand or
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