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Pop Up Chick Card for Toddlers to Make

May 29, 2010

A cute Easter Preschool Craft! Welcome to today’s story + art project with Red Ted. A very sweet and simple pop up book gave us inspiration this week! This craft project is great one for 5yrs+ or any age with a helping parent!!! Today we are going to show you how easy it is to make these adorable Pop Up Chick Cards for Toddlers. This is a wonderful Paper Easter Craft for kids too!

Pop Up Chick Card for Toddlers

Aren’t they simply fun? And they are so easy to make. The kids will love these chick cards!

Easy Chick Card for Toddlers

Chick Greeting Cards

Chick: a Pop-up Bookchick, Ed Vere. As already said, this is a very sweet and simple pop up book that was given to us by a friend, ooh, about a year ago now? I think it was for Red Ted’s first birthday. I wouldn’t normally have chosen it, as I feared the worst for all the pop ups, as well as not being sure how long it would entertain. A year on ALL pop ups are in tact (Red Ted is a very good boy and we spent a long time “teaching him” not to break books) AND he still loves it. It is the story of a little chick hatching, cheeping, eating, erm, pooing and finally going to sleep. Makes for good bedtime reading! The “cheep” page has always been our favourite, as we get the chick to “peck” Red Ted’s finger (wiggle the book and the mouth opens and shuts). So THIS PAGE IT HAD TO BE!

Enjoying the book

Oh no. Red Ted is only 2, so how do we manage that one?! Good crafting with children should be as HANDS OFF as possible, letting them experience and explore and feel that sense of achievement. However (you knew that was coming), I decided that yes, that is the case, but a wee bit of intervention is ok because:

  • When I am about to “intervene”, I run two projects parrellel – I let Red Ted do what he wants, as well as try and get him to do what I want, we both win
  • Means I can demonstrate projects that are suitable for older children, without actually having any older children!
  • Red Ted still gets very excited by the final outcome, even the ones I have guided – he recognises his work and he recognises the activities as well as the stories (he still ADORES his Fish project – and I did have to do all outlining and cutting!)
  • I adapt my approach to Red Ted – I actually made two false starts on this project in order to find a way that suited Red Ted and stil got me the result I wanted! (e.g. an older child may want to start with steps 5-7)

Enough. Here we go!

1) We read the book.

Pop Up Chick Cards for Toddlers – Materials

2) Materials:

  • paper,
  • paint,
  • brushes or cotton wool on pegs (very popular with us at the moment),
  • pen,
  • scissors,
  • card,
  • glue

How to Make Pop Up Chick Cards for Toddlers:

3) Get your child to paint the basics of your chick: one blog for chick and one blob for the beak

toddler chick cards

chicks for toddlers to help make

4) Draw chick outlines and cut out.

how to make a pop up chick card (2)

5) Fold chick in half (so that beak is CENTRAL to the fold)

how to make a pop up chick card (3)

how to make a pop up chick card (4)

6) Cut across beak, fold back corners, fold them in and out so that they get a good crease!

how to make a pop up chick card (1)

7) Open chick and “pull” beak out. When you open and shut the chick, the beak should now move.

8 ) Glue into card & draw on feet.

9) Finished!

We added a heart speach bubble – as we will be using that card for Father’s Day and used one of the cloud pictures we made for the Busy Airport project.

Red Ted LOVED this chick project and it is one that we are sure to have another go at in the future. This would also make an adorable Easter Chick Card.

More great Easter Preschool Crafts here:

Great Paper Easter Crafts for Kids:

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Filed Under: Card making, Easter, Kids Craft, Spring 27 Comments

Comments

  1. Luschka says

    May 19, 2010 at 6:21 am

    Fab project again! Off to share it with my facebook friends! 🙂

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      May 19, 2010 at 6:54 am

      😉 thank you Luschka!! Glad you “like” and THANK YOU for sharing!! Much appreciated…. love people spreading the word!

      Reply
  2. JDaniel4's Mom says

    May 20, 2010 at 12:32 pm

    How cute! I love the 3-D.

    Reply
  3. Christianne @ Little Page Turners says

    May 20, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    They turned out adorable! I love taking finger paintings and cutting them into cute shapes. It’s a win/win solution for little artists. 🙂

    Reply
  4. Jenny says

    May 20, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    I love getting to use art projects for another purpose such as a card. Great idea; the chicks are cute.

    Reply
  5. Natalie says

    May 20, 2010 at 5:50 pm

    I think you combined perfectly free expression and guided execution 🙂 The chicks look great. I am sure Red Ted learns every time you create together.

    Reply
  6. Almost Unschoolers says

    May 20, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    I love that! It just turned out so cute, it looks like the book, AND it has a nice independent art element to it, too. Really nice 🙂

    Reply
  7. Janelle says

    May 20, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    How adorable. Your son did a super job painting his blobs! That’s great that your son is so gentle with his books. My son beheaded a rooster in one of his pop-ups.

    Reply
  8. April says

    May 21, 2010 at 1:34 am

    I love his art…so bright and colorful. I definitely try to be hands off but I’ve had my times of a little intervening.

    Reply
  9. Michelle says

    May 21, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    These look amazing I love how they turned out! The book looks really cute too.

    Thank you for linking up to stART 🙂

    Reply
  10. Aly says

    May 22, 2010 at 9:50 pm

    That looks fab! I have to admit I’m yet to let my 2 yo loose with paints but this looks like something she would enjoy

    Reply
  11. Amy says

    March 11, 2011 at 4:02 pm

    Nice idea for Easter.. Thanks for sharing..

    Reply
  12. cathy@nurturestore says

    March 11, 2011 at 5:57 pm

    Oh I remember making these kind of cards as a child – cute!

    Reply
  13. JDaniel4's Mom says

    March 11, 2011 at 9:58 pm

    I wonder what he would say.

    Reply
  14. Rachel says

    March 12, 2011 at 2:53 am

    I love the birdies!!! How cute!!

    I’d love to have you drop by and link up at my For the Kids Friday Link Party! Hop on over!

    http://sunscholars.blogspot.com/2011/03/for-kids-friday-2-part-2.html

    Reply
  15. Stephanie says

    March 12, 2011 at 10:55 pm

    This looks fun. We will have to give it a go for Easter.

    Reply
  16. becky says

    March 13, 2011 at 7:17 am

    Lovely projecvt i love how you give books extra life x

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  17. Melanie says

    March 13, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    Love this – will be having a go with 2 yo for Easter methinks!
    Mind if I share it with our fans/followers and customers too?

    Mel,

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      March 13, 2011 at 5:11 pm

      Oh yes please, please do!

      Reply
  18. Rachel says

    March 14, 2011 at 3:54 am

    Thanks for sharing at the For the Kids Friday Link Party at Sun Scholars! I look forward to having you back this Friday!

    Reply
  19. Spectrummy Mummy says

    March 14, 2011 at 10:55 am

    Great project. I’d need a LOT of intervention to complete it with my kids, but maybe one day!

    Reply
  20. Isil says

    March 14, 2011 at 11:42 am

    what great fun,I love your project!

    Reply
  21. Jackie says

    March 14, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    I fear the worst for the pop up books too!;) I love that you let him make the “blob” first… that probably gave him a lot of ownership in the project. Very, very cute!

    Reply
  22. Jingle says

    March 15, 2011 at 1:32 am

    awesome project..
    smiles.

    Reply
  23. Rebecca Cooper says

    March 15, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    absolutely adorable Maggy! 🙂

    Reply

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