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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💖 Why You'll Love This Craft
- Vibrant & Fun Colors: Kids can use bright pinks and bold hues to create a lively flamingo, adding a burst of color to their craft collection.
- Enhances Creativity: This craft gives kids a chance to explore their imagination as they design their flamingo with different poses or accessories.
- Perfect for Learning Shapes: The circular shape of the paper plate makes it a great opportunity to teach young ones about circles, lines, and basic shapes
🎨 Supplies Needed
- 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.
💡 Pro Tip: Let children view the craft standing against a wall or taped upright—this gives perspective on how height, angle, and balance work together.
🧑🎨 Expert Tips
- Neck Extension: Encourage kids to test different neck lengths before attaching, helping them understand how upward extensions affect visual balance.
- Head Positioning: Guide them to attach the head so it aligns with the top arc of the plate, maintaining a natural vertical flow from neck to body.
- Leg Stretching: Let children experiment with longer or bent legs to explore how varying lengths change the flamingo’s standing posture on display.
- Body Support: Suggest reinforcing the plate’s lower section to keep it steady if the legs or neck add height, improving upright stability.
- Vertical Preview: Have kids hold the whole piece up vertically before finalizing placement—this helps them see if it stays aligned when standing.
- Length Comparison: Use a ruler or scrap strip to compare leg and neck lengths visually, reinforcing proportional choices that support vertical designs.
💭 FAQs
Children see how placing long necks or legs to one side affects the balance. They begin understanding how shape impacts physical stability.
Yes, adjusting body parts to stop tilting helps them self-correct design flaws. It develops thinking around balance in real-world models.
Kids notice that parts like extended legs can tip the paper plate. This shows how placement and weight shift overall support in builds.
Maintaining a standing or stable design gives them practical experience. They realize that even small shifts affect how a craft holds up.
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Paper Plate Flamingo Craft For Kids
Equipment
- Scissors
- Glue gun
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
Instructions
- Repeat again using the green felt, so you have two semi circles.
- Cut out the flamingo from pink foam. Cut out tails from the tissue paper and fold the pink pipe cleaner in half.
- Next glue the tissue paper tail to the end of the flamingo’s body and glue the pipe cleaner legs under the flamingo.
- Now you have your paper plate flamingo. Enjoy.
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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 🙂