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Need a fun craft to do with little ones?
Thesehandprint parrotsare exactly what you have been looking for!
Bright, fun, and cheerful, this craft will bring a smile to your face.
Best of all, you only need a few basic craft supplies to make these.
Kids will love choosing colors for the handprint feathers.
They will also get a lot of practice with tracing and cutting (essential preschool and kindergarten skills!)
This is a great project for kids who love birds or are interested in the rainforest.
I also love that it uses so many handprints.
Lets get started on this fun and creative project!
Then, place all the colored craft paper in a stack, with the traced hand on top.
Step 2.Start cutting the traced hand out.
When you are done, you should have six colored hands.
Step 3.Its time to draw your parrots body.
Begin by drawing a smaller circle to create a head.
Next, draw a bigger oval underneath to form the body.
Finally, make a triangle-shaped tail on the bottom of the oval-shaped body.
Step 4.Using your scissors, cut your parrot out.
Decide which way he will be looking (this will determine where you place your parrots facial features).
Step 5.Draw a round cheek for your parrot and cut it out.
Step 6.Draw your parrots beak and cut it out.
Step 7.We have all the elements of our parrot.
Now its time to put everything together!
Step 8.Lets start with the handprint feathers.
Take one colorful handprint and glue it to the very bottom of the parrots triangular tail.
The fingers should be facing downward.
Now, take another colorful handprint and glue it a little bit above the first one.
Keep gluing your feathers on in this way until 5 of them have been attached to your parrot.
Step 9.Add the last handprint feather as your parrots wing.
It should be placed above the rest of the handprint cut-outs.
Step 10.Draw a funny-shaped feather and cut it out.
Glue this to the back of your parrots head.
Step 11.Attach your beak, eye, and cheek to the head.
Step 12.You have completed your colorful handprint parrot.
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How Long Do These Parrots Take to Make?
These parrots do not take a long time to make at all.
In fact, you might probably put one together in about 15 minutes.
Still, you should be able to make an entire parrot in 30 minutes or less!
