Paper Plate Flamingo Craft for Kids
Paper Plate Flamingo Craft
One of my favourite birds is the Flamingo. Today on the blog I have a fantastic paper plate Flamingo activity which I made. This is a fantastic activity for kids both in the home and in the classroom.
Paper plate crafts can be fun to make and are fantastic for encouraging creativity, imagination and helping little ones build fine motor skills.
I have a list of supplies and instructions but you can change them up a little to make your craft unique and different.
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Contents
Supplies For Your Paper Plate Flamingo
- Pink craft foam
- scissors
- craft glue or hot glue, glue gun
- pencil
- blue and green felt
- googly eyes
- 1 pink pom pom
- Pink tissue paper
- pen
- Paper plate any colour
- pink pipe cleaners
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How to Make Your DIY Flamingo
I will now show you how we made this fun and simple diy flamingo activity.
Step 1:
Bending your plate into a semi circle, draw around the plate on blue felt.
Step 2:
Repeat again using the green felt, so you have two semi circles.
Step 3:
Next use the glue gun to glue the blue felt to the paper plate.
Step 4:
Then use the glue gun to glue the green felt to the paper plate.
Step 5:
Next we will begin gluing the flamingo foam to the felt on the paper plate.
Step 6:
Cut out the flamingo from pink foam. Cut out tails from the tissue paper and fold the pink pipe cleaner in half.
Step 7:
Glue the flamingo’s head and body to the felt background using the glue gun.
Step 8:
Next glue the tissue paper tail to the end of the flamingo’s body and glue the pipe cleaner legs under the flamingo.
Step 9:
Finally glue the pink pom pom to the flamingo’s body.
Now you have your paper plate flamingo. Enjoy.
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Paper Plate Flamingo Craft For Kids
This is tutorial on how to make a paper plate flamingo craft.
Materials
- Pink craft foam
- craft glue or hot glue
- pink pipe cleaners
- pencil
- blue and green felt
- googly eyes
- 1 pink pom pom
- Pink tissue paper
- pen
- Paper plate any colour
Tools
- scissors
- glue gun
Instructions
Bending your plate into a semi circle, draw around the plate on blue felt.
Repeat again using the green felt, so you have two semi circles.
Next use the glue gun to glue the blue felt to the paper plate.
Then use the glue gun to glue the green felt to the paper plate.
Next we will begin gluing the flamingo foam to the felt on the paper plate.
Cut out the flamingo from pink foam. Cut out tails from the tissue paper and fold the pink pipe cleaner in half.
Glue the flamingo’s head and body to the felt background using the glue gun.
Next glue the tissue paper tail to the end of the flamingo’s body and glue the pipe cleaner legs under the flamingo.
Finally glue the pink pom pom to the flamingo’s body.
Now you have your paper plate flamingo. Enjoy.
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Angela Milnes is a Qualified Early Years Teacher who has specialised in Preschool and Kindergarten teaching. She has a wealth of experience teaching young children and is passionate about kids crafts and having fun as a family. Angela has also taught cooking skills and loves to share both family recipes and easy crafts here on The Inspiration Edit. Follow her on Pinterest!
Ahhh, how cute! So simple and so effective x
thanks lovely. It was fun to make.
That flamingo paper plate would look right at home with all my street art wouldn’t it haha? On another note though I have to say I think this is a great craft idea for both home or the classroom x
I’m sure it would ha ha! 🙂
That’s really cute. Caitlin is really into tropical birds at the moment and has been nagging me to invest in a glue gun. She’d love this.
Using a glue gun is fun. Sylvia enjoys it!
What a good idea!
Thanks
What a fun thing to make with the smalls. How clever as well. My boys would love to try this with help 🙂
I like this a lot, it is so creative. My little boy might not like the flamingo, but maybe we could do one with a car or a dinosaur.
Thanks. It was fun to make.
This is so cute! I just love these kind of crafts! Pinning this to my craft board on Pinterest. 😀
Awesome. I am glad you like it.
It looks great and is really colorful too. Looks really fun to make
Oh this is great and so pretty! My niece would absolutely love this 🙂