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Little Easter Critters

Published 04.02.2009 | Permanent Link | Comments (1)

Spring is full of cute little fuzzy, furry, fluffy creatures and we're making this fuzzy baby chick to display, just in time for Easter. You can almost hear it peeping with excitement for the Easter Bunny to come.

Easter Crafts

Supplies for Little Easter Chicks:

- Styrofoam balls - all sizes
- yellow tissue paper
- pipe cleaner - (aka chenille stems) orange
- googley eyes
- glue - a hot glue gun works best, but his can be assembled with craft glue

Easter Crafts

Cut little squares of yellow tissue paper and scrunch them up into little yellow balls. Apply glue to a small section of the styrofoam ball. Place scrunched up tissue onto the glued area. Continue this for the rest of the styrofoam ball until it's all filled up. You can make yours look a little fluffier by being a little neater in applying, but with my kids, this is how it came out:)

Easter Crafts

To make the legs, cut a piece of orange pipe cleaner in half. Bend it into a long triangle, then twist it up together, making the leg. Then bend the triangle foot forward so it can stand. Now press the leg end into the bottom of the styrofoam ball. The pipe cleaner should stick right in.

Easter Crafts

For the face, place glue on googley eyes and attach them to the face side of your chick. Also add a small piece of orange pipe cleaner bended in half for a beak.

Easter Crafts

You're done. Now you've got a cute little chick to display for Easter. And you can even craft a fun little Easter Bunny with some of the other styrofoam balls you may have.

Easter Crafts

Hoppy Easter!!

You may also enjoy:

- Easter Basket Gift Ideas

- Cutest Letter from the Easter Bunny

- Easter Traditions and Ideas

- Easter Egg Decorating Ideas


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This is a year-round Holiday column. Kids love Holidays. As parents we have come to appreciate how Holidays seem to help structure our lives. Plus, any excuse to have fun sounds good to us!

We'll admit it, now that we're parents, we secretly look for Holidays to celebrate and between National, Secular, Unofficial and Bizarre Holidays, we think there are enough days out there to keep us inspired every week.

This column will be a place where you can get inspiration for how to enjoy time with your kids. Crafting projects and ideas will be posted on Thursdays by our brilliant contributors (see below). Other fun ideas will be posted here throughout the week as the inspiration hits us!

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Ellen Baker Bio Ellen Luckett Baker is the author of the long thread, a blog about handmade goods. She has always enjoyed making things, but the flexibility of staying at home with her two daughters along with the creative inspiration they provide has led her to craft on a daily basis. Combining her love of graphic design and sewing, she has created an Etsy shop selling machine embroidery designs and sewing patterns.

Ellen lives in Atlanta with her husband and two young daughters. She holds a B.A. in Art History and a Master's of Public Administration with a focus in Non-Profit Management.

Cindy Hopper BioCindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor's Degree in Art Education. With a keen eye for design and color, Cindy has continued her love of art and is now passing her creative skills on to her three children. Cindy's family and friends are the beneficiaries of her passion for fun and meaningful creative projects. Cindy's personal blog, Skip to My Lou, has taken her love of a project to new levels. Postings keep the family busy -– from testing new recipes for holiday treats to designing and building floats for a neighborhood parade to making fabric rolls to hold crayons to creating themed parties. Cindy seems to have an unending supply of ideas for gifts, parties and rainy days.

Marie LeBaron Bio Marie LeBaron is a 30 something stay at home mom in Utah. Before life as a mother, she graduated with a teaching degree in Early Childhood & Elementary Education, after which she taught four years of Kindergarten. After her first child was born, she decided to read books and sing silly songs at home. She misses the classroom, but she now gets to bring the fun and learning into her home and ours. You’ll see her kids a lot in these projects as they are her guinea pigs and for whom she's creative. You can follow more of her projects at her personal blog Make and Takes.

Brenda Ponnay Bio Brenda Ponnay is a stealthy secret agent who juggles parenthood to her adorable daughter by day and freelance graphic design by night. Whether it's painting, baking, drawing, making castles out of card board boxes or just doing the laundry with flair, Brenda Ponnay has finally discovered (at the ripe old age of thirty-six) that what really makes her happy is being creative every single day.

Brenda lives in Southern California with her husband, daughter, three cats and thirty-seven pet birds. You can read about all her crazy adventures on her personal blog: Secret Agent Josephine.

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