Paper Plate Flamingo Craft For Kids

One of my favourite birds is the Flamingo. Today on the blog I have a fantastic paper plate Flamingo craft 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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Supplies For Your Paper Plate Flamingo  Craft

•  Pink craft foam
• scissors
• craft glue or hot glue, glue gun
  
• pink pipe cleaners
• pencil
• blue and green felt
• googly eyes
• 1 pink pom pom
• Pink tissue paper
• pen
• Paper plate  any colour

Foam Sheet 9Saim Pipe Cleaners Chenille Stems 12Life Glow DIY Polyester Stiff Felt Fabric Squares Sheets Assorted Colors 6×6 inch for Crafts, 1mm Thick 40Pcs

How To Make Your DIY Flamingo Craft

I will now show you how we made this fun and simple diy flamingo craft project.

Step One: DIY Paper Plate Flamingo Craft

Bending your plate into a semi circle, draw around the plate on blue felt.

Step Two: DIY Paper Plate Flamingo Craft

Repeat again using the green felt, so you have two semi circles.

Step Three: DIY Paper Plate Flamingo Craft

Next use the glue gun to glue the blue felt to the paper plate.

Step Four: DIY Paper Plate Flamingo Craft

Then use the glue gun to glue the green felt to the paper plate.

Step Five: DIY Paper Plate Flamingo Craft

Next we will begin gluing the flamingo foam to the felt on the paper plate.

Step Six: DIY Paper Plate Flamingo Craft

Cut out the flamingo from pink foam. Cut out tails from the tissue paper and fold the pink pipe cleaner in half.

Step Seven: DIY Paper Plate Flamingo Craft

Glue the flamingo’s head and body to the felt background using the glue gun.

Step Eight: DIY Paper Plate Flamingo Craft

Next glue the tissue paper tail to the end of the flamingo’s body and glue the pipe cleaner legs under the flamingo.

Step Nine: DIY Paper Plate Flamingo Craft

Finally glue the pink pom pom to the flamingo’s body.

Now you have your paper plate flamingo. Enjoy.

Related Flamingo Craft Products

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