Preschool Chicken Crafts - Making a Talking Chicken

Chickens are usually familiar creatures to most preschoolers. Chickens have starring roles in many favorite preschool stories. They appear in cartoons and on clothes. Making preschool chicken crafts can be a fun activity that will help your preschooler learn more about chickens. Let's take a look at how to make a talking chicken.

Materials

• Two A4 size sheets of bond paper
• Drawing paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Colors - markers, water-colors, crayons

Directions

Take a A4 paper sheet and fold it in half.

At the midpoint of the folded side, cut inward about six inches.

Now open the paper and pull up each of the two cut sides, one at a time in a triangle shape, folding each up in the middle in line with the paper fold. This is the movable beak of the chicken. It will open and close as you open and close the folded paper.

The preschooler can draw the bird around the beak and color it.

Now take the second paper sheet and stick it behind this one, taking care not to get any gum on the movable beak.

Now you can fold and open the paper and bird will open and close its beak. It will say anything you want it to.

Display everyone's chickens and talk about them.

• Talk about how a female chicken is called a hen and a male chicken is called a rooster. Both hens and roosters have a comb on top of the head and wattles under the neck. Roosters are usually more colorful than hens.
• What sound does a hen make? Does she cackle or cluck? What sound does a rooster make? It crows every morning at sunrise. How does a rooster's call sound? Cock-a-doodle-doo! Can the preschoolers make chicken sounds?
• How many legs does a chicken have and how does a chicken walk? How does a chicken run? Can a chicken fly? You can watch a video of chickens walking or running and have the preschoolers imitate them.
• What does a chicken eat? Worms, insects, grain, bread, leftovers and lots of other things.
• Talk about how hens lay eggs. There are different breeds of chickens and different breeds can lay eggs that can be in different colors. Some are brown, some are white, others are blue, bluish green and pink. Hens do not lay eggs when the weather is cold or freezing. They lay eggs in the warm weather and sit on them to hatch them. Baby chickens or chicks hatch from the eggs.
• Eggs are good and healthy to eat.Lunch time could be boiled eggs and salt, or egg sandwiches for the preschoolers.
• While they are eating, read out aloud the story of The Little Red Hen.