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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environment Lots of food as well
as water Interest and
love Environment Your habitat can be a straightforward box, fish tank,
cat provider, or guinea
pig cage. Line it with old towels and
blankets (with no loosened
strings!) to begin, and also after a few weeks utilize straw over newspaper.
Keep in mind: Avoid making use of only
paper or other slipper
surface areas-- or your chicks legs could expand
misshapen. You also need
something to serve up food as well as
water in, such as a chicken feeder and water
meal from the feed store, or a pickle jar
lid for food and a pet bird water dispenser from a family pet store. Also, as the chicks grow older you could introduce a perch
right into the habitat to get them
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hardware store, or an infrared reptile heat
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warmth 24/7 till their downy fluff is
changed with feathers (which can occupy to 2 months). The freshly
hatched require a temperature
in between 90 as well as 100 levels,
as well as weekly this can
be decreased by
approximately 5 levels approximately. The heat resource need to get on simply one side of the cage
to permit chicks an array of
temperatures. The chicks are your best
thermostat- if they are concealing in the
other edge of your warmth
light, you need to
lower the temperature. If
they are surrounding each other under the
warmth (not just cuddling),
you need to put some heat.
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Tidiness is essential and also it maintains your chicks healthy. Be sure to transform
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usually as well as
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sufficient in any way times and also check
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very first two months, then
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healthy protein) for one more 2 months,
then to a slightly
reduced protein feed or a level feed
(if you have levels). Dirt Some chicks want
to obtain a running start on taking
dirt bathrooms, while others won't occupy that task till they are
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dirt for them to shower in.
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