3 Duck Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

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Handprint duckOne yellow handprint, add a beakPaper plate duckHalf a plate, paint, donePom pom ducks on a pondFive pom poms, count them on the pond

3 duck crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Handprint duck

The child makes a yellow handprint for the duck's body and tail feathers, then adds a head, orange beak and feet.

You need: 1 sheet of light blue paper, yellow paint, yellow and orange paper, 1 googly eye, 1 yellow craft feather, glue

How to make it

1. Paint your child's palm and fingers yellow.
2. Press the hand sideways on the blue paper, fingers as tail feathers and thumb pointing up.
3. Let it dry. You cut a yellow circle, an orange beak and 2 orange feet.
4. Glue the circle at the top of the palm as the head. Add the beak and the googly eye.
5. Glue the feather across the palm as a wing and the 2 feet under the palm.

2. Paper plate duck

The child paints half a paper plate yellow for the body and adds a paper head, beak, feather and feet.

You need: 1 white paper plate, yellow paint, yellow and orange paper, 1 googly eye, 1 yellow craft feather, glue

How to make it

1. You cut the plate in half. Your child paints it yellow. Let it dry.
2. Lay it with the straight edge at the top and the curved edge at the bottom.
3. You cut a yellow circle, an orange beak and 2 orange feet. Glue the circle at one top corner as the head, with the beak and the googly eye.
4. Glue the feather in the middle as a wing and the 2 feet under the curved bottom edge.

3. Pom pom ducks on a pond

The child paints an egg carton or paper plate blue for a pond and makes five little ducks from yellow pom poms with paper beaks.

You need: 1 small white paper plate, blue paint, large yellow pom poms, tiny orange paper triangles, small googly eyes, white glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints the plate blue as the pond. Let it dry.
2. Glue yellow pom poms in the middle of the plate, spaced apart, as ducks.
3. Glue 1 orange triangle on each pom pom as a beak.
4. Glue 2 googly eyes on each pom pom.

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Duck crafts: yellow paint, orange beaks and counting to five

Brush the paint onto the palm rather than dipping, press, lift straight up. The fingers become tail feathers, so spread them wide.

For the paper plate duck, fold the plate in half first. A three year old paints the outside and you cut the head and feet from orange and yellow paper.

The pom pom ducks on a pond pair with the five little ducks song. Add one duck for each verse, and take them away for the counting back.

Tie in the D sound: 'duh, duck' as the beak goes on. Hang the handprint duck where your child can see it and say it again.

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