“In no time, the big chick was stomping back to the coop with the missing eggs…‘Our hero!’ they all clucked.”
See what happens in our story!
Read Chicken Big with Kim!
Make a Paper Plate Chicken with Us!
What You’ll Need
- One large paper plate
- One small paper plate
- Sheet of red paper
- Sheet of orange paper
- Red and black crayon
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Glue or Tape
What To Do
- Trace your handprint on the red sheet of paper and a triangle on the orange sheet of paper.
- Cut out your handprint and triangle.
If you do not have safety scissors, make sure a grownup helps you! - Cut out two strips of red paper and two strips of orange paper.
If you do not have safety scissors, make sure a grownup helps you! - Cut your small paper plate in half and cut off the ridge edge, if your paper plate has one.
If you do not have safety scissors, make sure a grownup helps you! - Color the half of the paper plate with your red crayon.
- Using your black crayon, draw an eye on your large paper plate for your chicken.
- Glue on your orange triangle to make your chicken’s beak.
- Glue your red half paper plate onto your big paper plate to make a wing.
- Glue your red handprint to the back of your paper plate to create your chicken’s comb (or the red fleshy part at the top of a chicken’s head).
- Take your strips of paper and create loops by gluing one end of your strip of paper and then folding the paper to attach the other end.
- Glue or tape your loops to the side of your large paper plate in the back.
Now you have your Chicken!
Grown-Ups
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