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Five Little Chicks: How to Make an Washcloth Chick
Easter means new life, bunnies, eggs, springtime and baby chicks and we have all the crafts to help decorate your home and teach your child about this season!
We love this craft for moms who have some basic stitching knowledge or those who want to learn!
Materials:
yellow washcloths
scraps of orange and black felt
embroidery floss
ribbon
Directions:
See the full tutorial instructions from "Own Two Hands" for this chick and an adorable bunny (using a white washcloth) as well!
As the tutorial recommends, I hand stitched the folds of the faces together to give them a bit more of a solid look, and stitched on the eyes and beaks for durability and safety, but if you wanted to use your chicks as washcloths again it would be simple to take the stitches out, or to simply rely on the folds. Similarly, you could stick the faces on removable glue, or just tack them down with one or two stitches.
There are many ways to play with this fun chicks;
1. They were perfect for "beanbag" toss game at our Easter party (the shape made them particularly easy for little hands to hold).
2. Play catch with them.
3. Create stories and use the chicks to act it out or use them as "puppets".
4. Practice colours and counting.
5. They are great to use as prompts while reading rhymes too.
Here is one that is particularly appropriate:
Five Little Chicks
Five little chicks went walking one day (five fingers up, change to fingers walking motion)
Into the barn and around the hay (walking fingers with wide round motion).
Mother hen says, "Cluck, cluck, cluck, CLACK!" (Hands palm together to open like a beak)
And 4 little chicks come wandering back.
Four little chicks ....
Three little chicks ...
Two little chicks ...
One little chick went walking one day
Into the barn and around the hay
Mother hen says, "Cluck, cluck, cluck, CLACK!"
And 5 little chicks come wandering back.
I’m a Little Chickie (Sung to the Tune of "I’m a Little Teapot")
I'm a little chickie, (crouch down inside your egg)
Ready to hatch
Pecking at my shell (Pecking motion)
Scratch, scratch, scratch! (scratching motion)
When I crack it open,
Out I'll leap (jump out of shell)
Flap my wings and, cheap, cheap, cheap!
Paint the canvas in purple and let dry. Then pour a small amount of yellow paint on to a plate or piece of paper, and have your child transfer their thumbprint onto the canvas.
A wonderful, simple yet touching story of a baby gorilla looking to find his mommy. One word “hug” throughout the book, but the pictures tell the story. Great for all ages!
The oversize board book edition of this book is great for storytelling. The classic tale of the poky little puppy – he’s always late for dinner... but usually comes back and eats up dessert! Children will enjoy the repetition and figuring out ‘where in the world is that poky little puppy?’
A classic tale. A little bunny decides he might run away from home. He thinks of all the ways he might run away from home and have different adventures, but his mom tells him that she will be right there with him, because he is her little bunny. The little bunny decides that he might as well stay where he is, snug in his house with his mother. A wonderful story and beautiful illustrations.
In this lift the flap book, babies can find different baby animals: kittens, bears, penguins, puppies. There is also a textural element to each page: touch and feel fur, sparkles, etc. Very cute and great for youngest ‘readers’!
Love this book! Simple text works for babies but all ages will enjoy the wonderful illustrations of animals and their babies. The focus is ‘carry me’ so each page/picture shows animals carrying their babies in different ways.
This little book has some great riddles for older kids, and fun flaps to lift for younger ones (they are too small for babies though – so recommend toddlers and up!). Each page has ‘clues’ about what each animal is, i.e. “I go cluck cluck, my baby is called a chick, I lay eggs’ and children can lift small parts of the picture as they guess. Then the reader can pull the picture card out of the top of the book to see the ‘answer’. 
