A handmade chick with your own hands: design ideas and step-by-step instructions with photo examples for children

Greetings to all fans of creating handmade crafts! This time, the topic of our article will be a rather uncomplicated, but interesting handmade chick handicraft.

The craft can be a great decoration for any decor in the garden, vegetable garden, or even on your own windowsill, and thanks to the variety of materials you can create from almost anything!

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Options for handmade chick crafts

What can be made and what can be needed?
Paper (colored, plain, cardboard)
Thread,
Napkins,
Candy canes,
Cotton disks (sponges),
Salted dough,
Tinfoil,
Plasticine,
Natural Shells,
Rice, semolina, buckwheat or other cereals,
Glitter,
Varnish and fixer,
Scissors,
PVA glue or glue second,
Natural egg basket,
Egg paper tray,
Tinsel,
Tinsel,
etc.

So, first of all, the children should be advised on how to work with materials and objects. Show them how to hold scissors and use glue so that they are not left with glued fingers and other injuries.

With younger children, try to do everything under supervision, or choose only the safest materials. For example: salt dough, yarn, a variety of cereals.

How to make salt dough:

Flour - 1 tbsp.
Rock salt - 6-8 tablespoons
Water - ¼ cup.

Mix all the ingredients thoroughly. You can add food coloring or paint watercolor, gouache, then the salt dough will be no worse than plasticine, which will be doubly interesting for young children!

Chick handicraft ideas for children from different materials

Creating crafts is a useful creative process, to which it is necessary to involve children. Below will be described simple options for crafts from different materials.

From paper

Paper chick, perhaps the most popular option. It can be made from a single sheet of paper, flatten it to form a ball, razmokrovatsya, add eyes and a beak, and you can make three-dimensional applique:

For volumetric applique we need to fold a sheet of A4 in half.
Next, we cut a large yellow circle, fold it in half and cut not completely in the middle, and do not glue it completely to our sheet of A4. Why? Let me explain. We need to achieve such an effect, so that when you open the sheet, the chick "came to life".
To do this, glue only the bottom, which will be concave as a sheet of A4, and the top is folded to the opposite side, which will be like a beak.
That's all! All that is left is to add eyes and a beak or additional decorative elements.

You can cut out the foil shell and glue it to the chick, which will be very original and thematic.

From thread

Everyone has thread at home, and if not, it will not be difficult to buy the necessary material in the nearest needlework store. For your work, very interesting, bright and beautifully, you can use mouliné thread.

Suitable and any woolen thread, which will perfectly "complement" the image of our fluffy yellow chicken. As you have already understood, we are talking about a chicken made of pom-poms.

Make several fluffy and fluffy pompoms, you can comb the threads to give them volume, and connect them to each other with threads or put them on glue. For the head, you can use pre-made eyes or beads, and for the paws and beak, you can use a cut of red paper.

From napkins

Napkins are not expensive, convenient and easy enough to use. Papier-mâché out of napkins will be an interesting experience and quick enough work that both you and your children will enjoy.

We propose to make a handicraft vase chicken in the technique of papier-mache from napkins:

To work we will need an ordinary plastic bowl of medium size, polyethylene food film, PVA glue diluted separately 1k1, and of course - napkins.
To begin, prepare a work surface. Put down the newspaper, so the table will not be dirty.
Next, invert the bowl, put a polyethylene food film on it, put a few napkins on the base and dab it with a brush soaked in a solution of glue.
Next, everything is simple and depends on how big you need to make a bowl of chicken. As practice shows, the thicker the sheet, the better, so do not hesitate to use thicker paper in your work.
Then leave your handicraft under the lamp to dry.
When the form dries, remove the cling film from it (but this is not necessary) and cut out the shape of the lying on the back of a chicken.
Glue paws, wings and lo and behold, your own paper plate will be ready! You can decorate with beads around the edges, glued on silicone glue.

From Kinder

Kinder Surprise as a child knew and loved by all. It is quite a fun toy and chocolate inside, but what to do with a box to store the toy? It's a shame to throw it away, and over time it just becomes unnecessary. A great way out would be to create a craft from this box:

It is enough just to finish drawing eyes and a beak with a marker, and here, chickens are ready, but if you want to get a full-fledged interesting handicraft, then you can add a comb of beads and paws to the work.
They are made in the simplest techniques of beading. For paws we need 14 beads (for one paw) in total 24, for beak 6, for scallop 15. So, here we go.
On the level where you will have feet pierce with a needle two holes.
String the line and our beads in the amount of 10 pieces.
We pass the 10th bead and the tip we put through the 9th.
Tighten very tightly, put on another 2 beads, put through the same way one and stick it into a 9-yu, then repeat the same with the other finger, but at the end of going back, slipping the tip of the line through the 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 beads.
The tip is hidden inside the box.
With scallop and key similarly, except when working with a scallop we form rings, returning in the end always in the same bead with which we started.
If you want, you can turn such work into a great keyring!

With cotton pads

Every girl who uses makeup has a cotton sponge. It's easy enough, and the work is suitable even for the youngest craftsmen.

We will need an A4 cardboard sheet, a variety of sprinkles, foil, and eggshells:

The first idea is to glue a cotton sponge and paint it yellow.
Then we add a variety of decorative elements, glue a beak and eyes. Such work is great for ages 5 to 8 years.
For more complex work, we suggest you make a chick in a real eggshell. For this we need eggshells split in half. It should not be wet. Dry it.
Then take and crumple a small ball of tissue, glue cotton sponges on it to form a cotton ball.
This ball will be our base for the chicken work.
You can paint the work with a spray gun, diluting a little yellow paint or with a brush, applying the paint in a neat layer.
Try on the top shell and mark the position of the beak and eyes. This is to ensure that the top shell does not cover his face.
Glue or draw a beak and eyes and that's it!

Handicraft is almost ready, the only thing left is to add a variety of decorative materials to your taste and color!

Made of salt dough

Salt dough, the favorite material for the work of all preschoolers and professional hand-makers. Yes, you'd be surprised, but salt dough works are very profitable and popular!

Making Algorithm:

Stir everything thoroughly and let it harden a bit. Literally 3-5 minutes. Next, consider that in general salt dough is no worse than plasticine, so the principle is known and familiar to everyone.
Roll out the dough, choose a shape and just mold the chicken.
Of tools, it will be useful and interesting to use different sticks, matches, toothpicks or even cereals.
Crepe can be a great substitute for the eyes, and semolina, in which to coat the finished chicken body, can be a substitute and alternative to fluffy fluff!
In the same way, you can use pieces of absorbent cotton.

Model of a chicken in an egg

For work, we will need an ordinary white plastic bottle or the bottom of the bottle made in the technique of papier-mâché in white. Next, we cut out an improvised from the bottom of the bottle. Laying of the shell. The chick itself can be made from discs or from paper.

You can even make the chick from a sheet of paper in the shape of a cone, which will be fast enough and save a lot of time. With a marker or felt-tip pens make a beak, eyes, wings. That's it! Enough quick and original handicrafts.

Chicken for Easter

Easter is a very bright and bright holiday that brings light and goodness. Like the little chicken, which has just hatched from the egg. We offer you a very interesting craft on the theme of the Easter cake chicken.

For this, we need a form in the form of chickens, which we put in the oven with the prepared dough according to the recipe.

The second option will suit especially those who do not know how or do not like to bake:

Buy a ready-made Easter cupcake, and then, as a sculptor molds his masterpiece out of clay, make your own chicken out of the cupcake.
Decide right away on the size of the head, leave room for a scallop and beak, but if desired, you can replace them with a variety of beads.
The main thing is not to forget about them, as these elements are not edible.

Paper applique

All children like to cut out and glue applique. Here in this work everything will be as simple as possible. You need to make blanks of chopped pieces or pieces of a particular shape of paper:

For convenience, you can draw a child on a piece of paper the outline of where you need to glue the blanks. Watch out for scissors and small details.
To add even more beauty, you can add tinsel, foil, colored sequins and other decorative elements.

As you can see, making an original themed craft is not difficult. You can work with any material, and the only difference is that here you give free rein to your imagination.

Look around, take a closer look at your home that you can use in the work now, and that it is better to buy more. Think with your child, how and with what he likes to work more, maybe he likes to cut out and glue, and can mold with clay or dough.