I have an easy chicken craft. It is an adorable rocking chick made from paper. Also, look at my post Free Homeschool Chicken Unit Study and Anatomy of an Egg Felt Activity & Worksheet for more ideas.
It’s the perfect craft to welcome spring, and a great way to add a playful element to your chicken unit study.
And besides baby chicks are adorable, fluffy and full of energy.
When a chick is born, it’s called a hatchling because it just hatched from an egg. It’s the cutest thing on the farm.
And baby chicks have a little bit of food left inside their eggs that helps them survive for the first couple of days. So, they don’t need to be fed by their moms.
A female chicken called a hen lays eggs. She’ll usually lay one egg a day until she has a bunch of them.
CHICKEN BOOKS FOR KIDS
Next, look at some books and fun resources to go along with this craft.
Just make it a whole day of fun learning.
9 Books and Resources for a Fun Chicken Unit Study
Whether you’re wanting to do a chicken unit study or study chickens for the day, you’ll love these books and resources to add to your collection.
Cheep . . . cheep . . . cluck! Everything you ever wanted to know about chickens and eggs—except which came first. With bright watercolor illustrations and simple, clear language, nonfiction master Gail Gibbons shows young readers everything there is to know about chickens. See what different breeds of chickens look like, discover how eggs are laid and hatched, and learn how big and little farms take care of their birds. Key vocabulary words about chicken behavior and anatomy are introduced throughout Chicks and Chickens, and new words are reinforced in accessible language for young readers.
Children can see how animals change and grow. Realistic detail showing a different stage in the development of animals.
Uniquely molded textures and richly painted details bring them to life and help inspire creativity for kids.
It is a great way to expand the growth with children through physical science.
Learn the difference between a farrow and a barrow, and what distinguishes a weanling from a yearling. Country and city mice alike will delight in Julia Rothman’s charming illustrated guide to the curious parts and pieces of rural living. Dissecting everything from the shapes of squash varieties to how a barn is constructed and what makes up a beehive to crop rotation patterns, Rothman gives a richly entertaining tour of the quirky details of country life.
Read and find out about eggs—and how baby chicks grow inside of them—in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.
Learn how chicks develop, how they get the food they need to grow, and how a mother hen helps keep them safe in this introduction to the life cycle of a baby chick.
This is a clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. It's a Level 1 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores introductory concepts perfect for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:
A great educational book, covering:• Different breeds of chickens, like Padovana and Silkie• The difference between roosters and hens• How chicks are formed in the egg• Chickens sounds and noises• Chicken anatomy and feather anatomy and colors• Chickens and eggs around the world• Chicken history and folklore• Raising chickens at home• Chickens as pets
These LEGO Chickens are a fun and easy add on for little ones joining in the fun.
DETAILED & REALISTIC. Crafted with precision and authentic detail to create a lifelike toy that teaches and inspires toddlers and kids of every age; helps introduce children to animals. From the first sketch to the intricate finishing touches, we see value in every detail.
Chicken Coop Building Blocks. It contains a coop, twenty chicken and ten eggs.
Compatible with LEGO: It's made of LEGO-compatible bricks. It will enrich your MOC blocks. It can be put together with a lot of block scenes, such as farm, house, castle, village, animal and so on.
These little chicken figurines would also make a great addition to a chicken study, put them in a sensory bin with a little birdseed or cracked corn for hours of fun.
And then here are more facts about chicks.
- Hens sit on their eggs to keep them warm. This is called incubation.
- When it’s time for the chick to hatch, it starts pecking at the inside of the egg using a special little “egg tooth” on its beak.
- Baby chicks are often yellow, but they can also be black, brown, or even a mix of colors, depending on the breed of chicken.
- When they’re just born, they might nibble on some tiny grains of food or special chick starter feed.
- As chicks get older, they start eating bigger pieces of food like bugs, worms, and seeds.
- After just a few weeks, they start growing feathers.
Also, look at more easy chicken crafts.
Just in time for spring.
MORE EASY CHICKEN CRAFTS
- Free Homeschool Chicken Unit Study and Anatomy of an Egg Felt Activity & Worksheet
- Free Chicken Life Cycle Worksheet For Kids & Hands-on Activity
- 10 Crafts With Styrofoam Egg Cartons | How to Make Easy Chicken Crafts
- The Ancient Art Of Mummifying: How To Mummify A Chicken
- Then look at this book The Backyard Chicken Keeper’s Bible: Discover Chicken Breeds, Behavior, Coops, Eggs, and More.
Finally, look at how to make this adorable paper rocking chick.
HOW TO MAKE A PAPER ROCKING CHICK WITH A FREE TEMPLATE
First, look at this easy list of materials.
- Construction papers
- Glue
- White marker
- Scissor
- free chick template (enter your email in the form at the end of this post to get the freebie instantly)
Cut a circle from a white paper. We used a paper bowl turned upside down to make a perfect circle.
After cutting out the circle, then fold it in half.
Cut triangles on the folded part to make a “breaking egg” illusion.
Cut the chick out of the yellow paper following the template and assemble them just as shown.
Make the eyes by cutting two small circles then shade the inner part using a marker.
Too, you can use googly eyes but we used the white paper and a black marker.
Once you have assembled them, attach it at the back of the white paper cracked eggshell. Let it dry.
Then rock it back and forth as your chick hatches. How fun!
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