Feathered Duck

3 year old boy

Materials:

• Yellow cardboard paper
• Scissors
• Googly eye
• Coloured feathers
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Use the scissors to cut out a duck shape.
2. Spread a thin layer of craft glue all over the card.
3. Let the child stick the coloured feathers onto the duck.
4. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eye.

Paper Plate and Feather Owl

Materials:

• 2 paper plates
• A3 black cardboard paper
• Silver star stickers
• Blue paper
• Black paper
• Orange paper
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• Pritt glue
• White feathers
• White paint

Method:

1. Paint the back of one of the paper plates white. You may have to do 2 coats.
2. Whilst drying, cut the other paper plate up to make 2 wings.
3. Cut out 2 rounded squares from the blue paper.
4. Cut out a rounded triangle from the orange paper.
5. Cut out 2 small circles from the black paper.
6. Use Pritt glue to glue on the eyes and beak.
7. Use the craft glue to stick the wings and head to the black card.
8. Use the craft glue to stick the feathers onto the wings.
9. Randomly stick silver stars onto the black background.

Colourful Peacock

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Plastic spoon
• Brightly coloured kokies
• Black permanent marker
• Scissors
• Bostik glue
• Glitter glue
• Fluffy feather

Method:

1. Fold the white card into half.
2. Cut a section of the top part off to make a square, and thus, a rectangle when opened.
3. Keep it folded and cut out curves on the outside of the folded card (see picture). 
4. Open it up. It should look like the open feathers of a peacock.
5. With different coloured kokies, colour in each section of the paper.
6. Use glitter glue to draw spirals in each feather.
7. Leave it to dry.
8. Meanwhile, cut out a very small folded triangle from the white card for a beak.
9. Colour both sides, inside and outside, of the beak orange.
10. Draw in 2 eyes with the permanent marker.
11. Once the feathers have dried, use Bostik to stick the spoon down the middle.
12. Put a blob of Bostik just above the top of the spoon and stick on the feather.

Suppliers:

• Kokies - Coral Moon - http://www.coralmoon.co.za/online-store.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=610&category_id=90
• Glitter Glue - Coral Moon - http://www.coralmoon.co.za/online-store.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=590&category_id=90

Fluttering Chicks

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Poster paint
• 4 different coloured cardboard paper
• 6 small coloured feathers
• White craft glue
• Pritt glue
• 6 googly eyes
• Scissors

Method:

1. Cut the paper plate in half.
2. Paint it with many different colours so that it ends up looking brown.
3. Cut out 3 long rectangles in 3 different colours for the chicks.
4. Cut the corners of the rectangles of so that the corners are no longer sharp.
5. Use Pritt glue to stick the rectangles onto the last piece of card, one next to the other.
6. Use craft glue to stick the paper plate to the card and over half of the rectangles to mimic a nest.
7. Use craft glue to stick 2 feathers to each rectangle.
8. Cut out 3 triangles and use Pritt glue to stick them on as beaks.
9. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes.

Tissue Paper Chick

Brilliant Easter craft!

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 5 years
Estimated Time: Around 30 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• Yellow cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• Orange tissue paper
• 2 orange pipe cleaners
• 2 feathers
• Cellotape

Method:

1. Cut out a small circle from the yellow card.
2. Roll up pieces of tissue paper in small balls.
3. Spread a layer of white craft glue onto the circle and paste down the tissue paper balls.
4. Use craft glue to stick on a triangular beak and googly eyes.
5. Once it has dried, turn it over and cellotape the feathers and legs to the circle.

Feathered Peacock

Age Group: 4 years (with help) to 10 years
Estimated Time: Around 30 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• Coloured cardboard paper
• 2 googly eyes
• Orange kokie
• Cellotape
• Coloured feathers
• White craft glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Cut out a hour-glass shape from the coloured cardboard paper for the peacock's body.
2. Use the cellotape to stick the feathers in a semicircle to the back of the body. Through trial and error, I realised the cellotape was much easier than glue!
3. Draw on feet and a beak.
4. Stick on the 2 googly eyes with the craft glue.

Sensory Rainbow

Below are two variants of a "sensory rainbow". The second one is made out of very different textured materials for each colour and the other is a little simpler.

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Crayons in rainbow colours
• Pom-poms
• Felt
• Ribbon
• Buttons
• White card (A4)

Method:

1. Draw the rainbow in the correct colour order.
2. Let the child choose what material he/she would like to stick onto each colour.
3. Make sure that the object they choose is the same as the colour of that stripe in the rainbow!

Age Group: 4 years to 8 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Pink felt
• Purple pom-poms
• Blue pipe cleaner
• Green feathers
• Sandpaper coloured in yellow
• Orange tissue paper rolled into balls
• Red kokie

Method: 

1. Stick all the items in the correct colour order.
2. This is a brilliant activity for tactile stimulation!