A Trio of Flowerpot Chicks Craft for Easter and Spring
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Keep the kiddos busy this Easter by using flowerpots, felt, acrylic paint, and googly eyes, to create this adorable Flowerpot Chicks Craft! Be sure to download our free printable pattern, guaranteed to make life even easier!
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Flowerpot Chick Craft
The full list of materials, tools, and instructions is found in the printable tutorial card at the end of this post. I highly recommend reading the blog post all the way through before starting this project to ensure that you have everything required and understand the steps and timings involved.
Spring is upon us and Easter is on the way, and what a more suitable activity for the season than this flowerpot chick craft!
These chicks are so stinkin’ cute, and are really fun to make!
They’d make such a fun Easter decoration or even just a cute addition to your spring decor.
The chick triplets are actually pretty easy to make, using flowerpots painted yellow and then googly eyes, ribbon, and felt accents glued in place to bring the chicks to life!
Make a set for a teacher, friend, neighbor, or use them as place cards for your family’s Easter dinner.
Materials & Tools Used in This Craft
The complete list of supplies, which may include basic crafting items that you already have can be found in the tutorial card at the end of this post. For your convenience, I’ve linked any notable materials and tools needed for this project to Amazon below.
- Terracotta Flowerpots – the ones pictured here are 2-inch
- Felt Fabric – in lemon yellow and orange
- Permanent Marker
- Rick Rack Trim – 1/2″ wide Pink, Green, Purple (or trim of choice)
- Light Yellow Acrylic Craft Paint
- Googly Eyes
- Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
- Flowerpot Chick Trio Patterns – click to download PDF
Cheap Craft Supplies
A great thing about this craft idea is that it’s very budget-friendly using supplies you may already have or can be purchased cheaply in stores:
If you’re in the USA, check out your local Dollar Store or Dollar Tree; and if you’re in the UK, the Poundshop, The Range, Wilko, and Baker Ross are great places to shop for cheap and inexpensive craft supplies. The rest of the world reading this – I don’t know every cheap store – sorry! But hunt the ones out in your location for crafting bargains!
More Easter Crafts
Looking for more Easter crafts? Here are some more!
- Make Simple & Cute Paper Easter Puppets on Popsicle Sticks!
- How To Make Easter Egg Animals – A Fun Easter Craft for Kids
- Decorating Easter Eggs with Sharpie Pens
I’ve shared lots of great craft ideas on The Purple Pumpkin Blog over the years, in fact, there are 100+ crafts to make and do at home for you to try!
And for even more Easter fun, check out these 5 Egg-ceptional Easter Crafts To Do With Children from our friends at Twinkl.
How Do I Make A Trio of Flowerpot Chicks?
Just check out the how-to card below with full materials, tools, and instructions. Any demonstration photos do not print out to save your ink.
A Trio of Flowerpot Chicks Craft
Keep the kiddos busy this Easter and use flowerpots, felt, acrylic paint, and googly eyes, to create this adorable Flowerpot Chicks Craft!
Materials
- 3 (2".5cm) Flowerpots
- Felt Fabric - Lemon Frost (1), Orange (1)
- Rick Rack Trim – ½″ wide Pink, Green, Purple (or trim of choice)
- Light Yellow Acrylic Craft Paint
- Googly Eyes
- Plain Paper
- Flowerpot Chick Trio Patterns
Tools
- Permanent Marker
- Scissors
- Paintbrush
- Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Instructions
- Basecoat the three flowerpots with light yellow acrylic craft paint and leave to dry. Apply a second coat if necessary.
- If the hole in the flowerpot is small, make it larger by gently scraping it with the metal blade from a pair of scissors.
- Download and print the patterns for the Flowerpot Chick Trio. Cut out the patterns to use as templates.
- Using a permanent marker, trace six wings on lemon felt, and then cut out with scissors.
- Trace and cut out three beak patterns from orange felt.
- Cut fifteen strips approximately 1/8″ by 9″ for the comb from orange felt.
TIP: Cut inside the traced line, so that your project looks neat and clean. You can also pin the paper patterns to the felt and cut them out with scissors. - Adhere the wings to the right and left sides of each chick with a glue gun and glue sticks. Attach the beaks and wiggle eyes to complete the chicks’ faces.
- Glue the rick rack trim to the base of the flowerpot, using the photo for placement.
- To create the chicks’ combs, gather five orange felt strips, twist them several times in the center, and fold them in half.
- Secure the comb in the flowerpot drain hole with the glue gun and glue sticks.
- To finish, trim the chicks’ combs with scissors, and fluff.
- Display where desired and Happy Easter!
Notes
- You can use liquid craft glue for this project, but you will have to wait for it to dry.
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