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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clean and also warm and comfortable
environment A lot of food as well
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love Environment Your environment could be a basic box, fish tank,
cat carrier, or guinea
porker cage. Line it with old towels and also
coverings (with no loose
strings!) to begin, as well as after a
couple of weeks make use of straw over paper.
Keep in mind: Avoid using only
newspaper or other slipper
surfaces-- or your chicks legs can expand
misshapen. You also need
something to serve up food and also
water in, such as a chicken feeder and water
meal from the feed store, or a pickle jar
cover for food as well as an animal bird water dispenser from a pet shop. Additionally, as the chicks get
older you can introduce a perch
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light bulb in a reflective clamp style lamp from an equipment shop, or an infrared reptile warmth
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recommendation). Chicks need this
warmth 24/7 until their downy fluff is
replaced with plumes (which could use
up to 2 months). The newly
hatched out require a temperature level
in between 90 as well as 100 degrees,
and every week this can
be lowered by
around 5 degrees or
so. The warmth resource ought
to be on merely one side of the cage
to permit chicks a variety of
temperatures. The chicks are your best
thermostat- if they are hiding in the
contrary corner of your heat
lamp, you should
reduce the temperature level. If
they are surrounding each various other under the
heat (not just snuggling),
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House cleaning
Sanitation is vital and also it maintains your chicks healthy and
balanced. Make certain to change
the bed linens
often as well as
always offer tidy
food as well as water Food and also water.
Chicks grow very quickly
which needs a lot of clean
food and water. Offer
sufficient whatsoever times and check
often to avoid dehydrated as well as
starving chicks. Chick food is various than adult chicken food, and also it can be found in both medicated and non-medicated selections. Feed chick food for the
initial two months, then
switch over to a grower food (~ 17 %
protein) for one more 2 months,
and after that to a slightly
reduced healthy protein feed or a layer feed
(if you have levels). Soil Some chicks want
to get a head start on taking
dust baths, while others will not use up that task till they are
older. If you have the space in your chick
enclosure, present a tray of sand or
filth for them to bathe in.
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