Hatch a Chick! Craft
Chicks are so cute and fluffy—you just wish you could have one of your very own! Now you can! Hatch your own chick with this craft.
Supplies
- Cotton balls, or use large pom-poms
- Yellow chalk
- Orange paper
- Black paper
- Egg shell
- Paper grass
- Cardboard or poster board
- Cheese grater
- Green paint, marker, or crayon
- Glue
- Scissors
Directions
To make the shell
- Crack an egg and save the two halves
- Soak the eggshells in soapy water or wash gently with soap
- Dry eggshell
To make the chick
- Use the cheese grater to grate the chalk into a bowl
- Roll the cotton balls in the chalk dust until they are covered
- Make the beak from the orange paper by folding the paper and cutting a small triangle
- Cut two small eyes from the black paper
- Glue the beak and eyes to one of the cotton balls
- Glue the head to the second cotton ball
- Set the chick into one of the eggshells, glue if desired
To make the stand
- Cut a 3-inch by 3-inch square from the cardboard or poster board
- If you wish, paint or color the square green
- Glue green paper grass to the square
- Glue the eggshell to the stand.