Funny rooster: handicrafts for children aged 3 and over

What you need: white photo cardboard, orange construction paper, 2 pipe cleaners (striped if possible), orange paper scraps for the beak, some toilet paper, glue stick, hole punch, black pen

Craft instructions for Funny Rooster

• You have to help your child with the preparations: Draw the head and body of the rooster on the white cardboard. Draw a circle for the head and an elongated oval that is slightly pointed at the top for the body. Your child can then cut out both.
• Now draw a triangular beak on the orange paper and cut it out.
• Fold the orange paper. On one side, your child presses both hands on the paper. Now you can help your child to draw the outline of their hand on the orange paper. When they cut these out, your child will have four hands.
• If you have two hands, make a hole at wrist level. These handprints will later become the rooster’s feet.
• Next, your child has to take care of the feathers of the rooster. To do this, it tears the toilet paper into pieces and sticks them on the rooster’s body.
• On the round circle, i.e. on the head of the rooster, your child glues a handprint as a comb at the top and a handprint as a beard at the bottom.
• Now glue your rooster’s head and body together.
• Glue on the orange triangle for the beak and draw the eyes onto the face.
• Use the hole punch to punch two holes in the lower part of the body. This puts your pipe cleaners and twists them on the back.
• Finally connect the two punched handprints with the pipe cleaners.
• Bedded on some straw in a bowl, the rooster is definitely a fun gift – and not just at Easter.