Chicken is one of those barnyard animals that children must do crafts of at least once. It almost feels like an unwritten contract.
Chicken is so popular and numerous that there are three of them for every human on the planet.
Below are chicken crafts for kids to bring these clucking feathered friends home, including handprint chicken crafts, other chicken paper crafts, and baby chick crafts kids will love to make.
5 Handprint Chicken Crafts for Toddlers
1. Easy Chicken Painting
Who can make it: Toddlers
Kids, get ready to get your hands messy! This really quick 20 second video shows kids how to make a handprint chicken painting using their hands, paint, googly eyes, and a paintbrush. Have some baby wipes handy to wipe off the paint!
2. Easy Handprint Chicken Craft
Who can make it: Toddlers
Here’s an easy-to-do handprint chicken craft courtesy of Easy, Peasy, and Fun. Kids will need a marker, cardstock or construction paper, scissors, an empty toilet paper roll, and glue for this fun and easy chicken craft.
3. Handprint and Paper Plate Chicken Craft
Photo credit: Who can make it: Toddlers
How about using a handprint for the chicken’s comb (the red fleshy part on their heads)? For this simple chicken craft, courtesy of Darcy and Brian, kids will need a paper plate, scissors, glue, craft foam, feathers, and a marker or pencil.
4. Handprint Hen Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
Kids can really get hands-on with this craft from No Time for Flash Cards. To make the various handprints, kids will need white and colored paper or construction paper.
In addition to these materials, kids will also need scissors, glue, a googly eye, cardboard, and markers.
5. Handprint and Popsicle Stick Chick Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
Babyology uses handprints for the chicken wings! Aside from their hands, kids will need cardstock or construction paper, felt, scissors, a pencil, glue, popsicle sticks, and googly eyes.
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6. Clothespin and Paper Plate Chicken Craft
Who can make it: Toddlers
Do you have some wooden clothespins at home? Then Glued to My Crafts has got a simple chicken craft for kids. Other materials include a red marker, a paper plate, tissue paper, cardstock or construction paper, scissors, glue, and a stapler
7. Geometric Chicken Craft
It’s never too early to start learning basic shapes. The Craft Train helps children with recognizing triangles, half circles, and rectangles with their geometric chicken.
8. Cute Egg Carton Mini Chicken Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
Let kids turn egg cartons into mini chickens! Grab an egg carton, paint, a paintbrush, construction paper, glue, scissors, and a marker for kids to make these little chickens by Typically Simple.
While this chicken craft tutorial calls for spray paint, it can also be done with regular craft paint!
9. Egg Carton Hen Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
Make a full-sized hen with this hen craft from My Kid Craft! Besides an egg carton, kids will need craft foam, scissors, glue or double sided tape, googly eyes, and eggs.
Hold up! Don’t throw those egg cartons just yet; they may be useful in these egg carton crafts.
10. Paper Plate Chicken Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
Here’s a chicken craft preschoolers can easily make. In the Bag Kids Crafts shows kids how to make this cute paper plate chicken craft with a paper plate, roundhead fasteners, scissors, glue, a hole puncher, yarn, googly eyes, and their printable template.
11. Toilet Paper Roll Chicken Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
Empty toilet paper rolls are one of the most reliable and common crafting materials. ThriftyFun uses one to show kids how to make this easy-to-do chicken craft that includes scissors, glue, a black marker, paint, a paintbrush, and craft paper.
12. Paper Bag Puppet Chicken Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
Simple Everyday Mom shares a really simple and fun paper bag puppet craft. To make this, kids will need cardstock or construction paper, glue, scissors, and the free chicken template (enter your email at the bottom of the page to access it).
13. Cute Hen Drawing Tutorial
Who can make it: Kindergartners or older
Kids, you might be wondering how to draw a simple chicken. Well, DrawinGeek has a video to help you get started. The video teaches kids how to easily draw a hen in just two minutes.
While a black Sharpie is used in the tutorial, I recommend a pencil to erase mistakes.
14. Feathery Chicken and Chick Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
Kids can make a chicken craft that almost feels like the real thing by using feathers. Powerful Mothering shows kids how to make this sensory chicken craft by using craft foam, paper, craft feathers, glue, and googly eyes.
15. Paper Rooster Craft
Who can make it: Kindergarteners
Rise and shine with this colorful rooster craft courtesy of Activity Box kids can easily make. They’ll just need colored paper, glue, a stapler, scissors, a pencil, googly eyes, and crayons (optional).
16. Chicks and Chicken Bookmarks
Who can make it: Kindergarteners or older
If your kids are already reading, then let them save the pages of their favorite books with these chicks and chicken bookmarks from Red Ted Art. To make these cluckin’ little bookmarks, kids will need scissors, glue, paper, and a black pen.
17. Chicken Bookmark Popsicle Stick Craft
Who can make it: Kindergarteners or older
Bookmark corners are not for everybody. For some, traditional stick-it-in bookmarks are still the way to go, like the chicken-themed ones Paper Crafts-TR has made in their video tutorial.
18. 3D Paper Chicken Craft
Who can make it: Kindergarteners or older
Here’s a really cool 3D paper chicken craft courtesy of the aptly named Paper Craft Ideas. All your kids need to make one is cardstock or construction paper, scissors, glue, a ruler, and a pencil. That’s it!
19. Plastic Bottle Easter Basket Rooster Craft
Who can make it: Kindergarteners or older
Need a small basket for next Easter season’s egg hunt? Then why not make one using a plastic bottle?
The Little Crafties shows kids how to make this cool rooster basket using a plastic bottle, craft foam, a box cutter (should be handled by a grown-up), scissors, a black pen, glue, paint, and a paintbrush.
20. Chicken Origami
Who can make it: Elementary school or older
Every child knows how to make a basic airplane. 123 Easy Paper Crafts DIY builds upon that knowledge to craft not an aircraft, but a barnyard friend.
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21. Easy Chick Fork Painting
Who can make it: Toddlers
If you have a plastic fork leftover from a recent party, then Mas & Pas has a really easy painting activity for kids. Using a fork, googly eyes, felt, scissors, glue, paint, and a black pen, kids will be able to paint this cute little chick.
22. Hatching Chick Paper Craft
Who can make it: Toddlers
This rocking hatchling from Art Line TSP is such a simple Easter chicken craft. All kids need is scissors, glue, cardstock or construction paper, and googly eyes. It’s that simple!
23. Cute Hatching Chick Craft
Who can make it: Toddlers
Here’s an adorable chicken craft of a baby chick that’s just peeking out of the shell! Kids will need cardstock, paper, scissors, a pencil, glue, and colored markers. This one rocks, too!
24. Plastic Cup Chick Craft
Who can make it: Toddlers
Do you have some disposable clear plastic cups lying around? Then KROKOTAK has an easy chicken craft your kids can do with them. Additional materials include construction paper or cardstock, glue, yellow tissue paper, and scissors.
25. Finger Puppet Baby Chick Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
Kids will enjoy playing with this finger puppet of a baby chick. The Weekend Box Club gives a quick tutorial on how kids can make this chicken craft with cardstock or construction paper, googly eyes, a pencil, different sized round objects to trace with, glue, feathers, and scissors.
26. Cotton Chick Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
Kids can make these fluffy little chicks by Aruna with just a little cotton, scissors, paint, a paint brush, glue, and safety eyes.
27. Egg Carton Hatching Chick Craft
Who can make it: Preschoolers
How about using an egg carton to create a hatching egg with a chick inside? Kids can make one thanks to this tutorial by Crafty Morning, and all they’ll need (besides an egg carton) is pom poms, a glue gun, scissors, googly eyes, paper, and paint (optional).
28. Paper Shreds Easter Chick Craft
Who can make it: Kindergarteners
This Easter chicken craft by Courtney is so adorable and makes for a lovely display piece! All kids will need is paint, plastic eggs, googly eyes, paper shreds, paper bowls, markers, and glue.
29. Pom Pom Chick Craft
Who can make it: Kindergarteners
Time for some DIY pom poms! Crafts & Ribbon Art’s video shows kids how to make their own pom pom with yarn and scissors. Kids will also need a glue gun and beads. That’s it!
Continue the fluffy activities in these simple pom pom crafts.
30. Popsicle Stick Chick Craft Magnets
Who can make it: Kindergarteners
Let these chicks invade the front of your fridge with these popsicle stick chick magnets by Farm Wife Crafts. For this fun chicken craft kids will need a glue gun, popsicle sticks (of course), a magnet, googly eyes, construction paper, glue, paint, a paintbrush, and cardboard.
31. Cute Baby Chick Craft
Who can make it: Kindergarteners
This cute little chick craft even includes a makeshift nest! Ria shows kids how to make their own by using yellow tissue paper, colored paper, a paper cup, a black pen or marker, paper yarn, rubber bands, glue, and scissors.
32. Eggshell Chicken Craft
Who can make it: Kindergarteners
Which came first: the chicken or the egg? Settle the debate with this cool eggshell chicken craft. The Craft Lay shows kids how to make this awesome chicken craft with eggshells, pistachio shells, water color, glue, scissors, cotton, and paper.
A grown-up should help with cracking and emptying the egg and pistachio shells.
Fine Feathery Chicken Crafts
There are a variety of chicken crafts for kids to enjoy in this list, and some will even help them learn more about these misunderstood birds.
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