Crafting a Chicken from a Paper Plate

🎂 5 + years ⏱️ 20 min 📍 Anywhere ⭐ easy

This chicken is not an ordinary chicken. It’s an Easter chicken and a little basket at the same time. You’ll make it from a paper plate. You can put something inside it, maybe a chocolate egg or other small surprises. You can also hang the chicken up. On a branch, in the window, or on your bedroom door. And if you want, it can even become a gift. For grandma, for your teacher, or for someone who deserves a smile. Because this chicken is one of a kind. Yours. No other looks exactly like it. Easter is a time for surprises, for little signs, and for things that come from the heart. And that’s exactly what you can craft here. With your own hands, your ideas, and lots of love.

What you'll need

A white paper plate
A pair of scissors
A black felt-tip pen
Orange and red construction paper
Hay or crumpled paper
Googly eyes
String
Small surprises
Stapler
Glue

How it works

Take a paper plate. Cut it in half. This will create two equal halves. Now turn the halves so that the white sides are facing inwards. Hold them together as if you are making a small basket.
Now it’s time for the stapler. If you haven’t used one before, ask an adult for help. Staple the edges of your two plate halves together all around. But leave an opening at the top; you’ll need that!
Chickens often have beautiful feathers. Take a black felt-tip pen and draw patterns on your chicken. Big dots, small dots, anything goes. You can scatter them randomly or arrange them in rows. Every chicken looks different.
Now your chicken needs a face. Cut a small triangle from the orange construction paper. That will be the beak. Then take the red construction paper and create the comb. It will sit on top of the chicken later. Attach both with glue or the stapler in the right place.
Now you need an eye. Almost done! Now you need a string to hang it up. Staple the string at the top of the opening. But your chicken is still empty.
Now it’s time to make it cozy. Fill the opening with some hay or crumpled paper if you don’t have hay. It looks like a nest. And if you want, you can put small surprises inside. Maybe you’ll craft a second chicken to give away?