How to Make an Easy 3D Baby Chick Card for Spring
Want to know how to make
an Easy 3D Baby Chick Card for Spring?
Follow our simple step-by-step tutorial
for a cute pop-up Easter card.
Or actually, for any occasion.
Pink and Blue Easter Chicks
When our boys were about 2 and 4, we bought them pink and blue baby chicks.
Because Easter.
I felt a little guilty supporting the “coloring” of live baby chicks.
How could that be right?
But then again, people dye their hair all the time. Does that make it okay?
Anyway, the color disappeared within days, and in no time at all, we had full-grown white chickens running around our little city backyard.
Chickens who pecked and ate worms in our lawn, and left wet, stinky plops behind everywhere they went.
For little boys’ bare feet to smear and track into the house.
Still, I was horrified to find the chickens butchered by the neighbor’s cats one day.
It never occurred to me that these chicks wouldn’t know how to fly away from a tame cat.
On the farm where I grew up, our cats never caught live chickens.
That was the last time we tried chickens for pets. Poor things.
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But they were so crazy cute when they were brand new.
And so is this pop up Baby Chick greeting card.
Easy 3D Baby Chick Card
WHAT YOU NEED:
- 5″ x 7″ blank blue greeting card and envelope
- Yellow, orange, green lightweight cardstock or heavy printer paper
- 4 small googly eyes, 4 white feathers
- Scissors, glue, black marker
- Cricut or other cutting machine, if desired.
HOW TO MAKE IT:
- Cut 8 chicks from yellow cardstock or heavy paper.
- Fold all the chicks in half.
- Glue along the fold of one side of a yellow chick, and adhere a second folded chick on top, folds lined up.
- Continue gluing yellow chick halves until 6 chicks are glued together.
- Cut a little orange cone for a beak. Glue between the center two chick’s heads.
- Attach the googly eyes inside the chicks on either side of the beak.
- Cut yellow wings and attach on the card on either side of the chicks.
- Cut a 1.5″ x 10″ strip of green. Fold in half. Snip along the strip from the “top” to within 1/2″ of the bottom to create grass blades. Open and glue the solid 1/2″ to the bottom of the card, under the chick.
- Cut 2 little red hearts for feet. Glue upside down (with points toward chick) at the top of the grass, one on each side of the fold of the card.
- Draw legs from the hearts to the chick with black marker.
- Decorate the front of the card for the occasion you want to give it. Happy Birthday or Happy Easter. Even baby congratulations, if your child lets you steal their project.
Do you love card crafting?
Look for more card crafts: Papa Bear Card DIY and Heart Explosion Valentine Card DIY .
Children’s 3D paper crafting that isn’t cards specifically: Make a Paper Garden: Children’s DIY or the
Amazingly Realistic Paper Succulent Wreath Tutorial.
You can also buy handmade ready-to-give children’s greeting cards from kimenink.
Until next time,
Kim & Dorothy
