Chicken Divas Craft: National Simultaneous Storytime
READ: Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas by Lucinda Gifford for National Simultaneous Storytime 2020.
CREATE: Your own fancy chickens with this Chicken Diva craft.
The National Simultaneous Storytime celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a rollicking read featuring some jazz-loving, ostentatious chickens.
To celebrate, we created this cardboard chicken diva craft. It was also a fun and simple colour exploration.
What you will need for this Chicken Diva craft:
Printable template
Cardboard
Push pins
Craft glue
Colouring materials
Embellishments like sequins, tissue paper or beads
We traced the templates onto an IKEA box to create our chicken parts.
You could simply print the template onto thin card. Or a paper version would work too.
I provided a variety of colouring materials- chalk pastels, paint pens, oil pastels and watercolours. We discussed the colours of the chicken characters. As we created we discussed the tints and shades of pink and blue. We added details in Sharpie.
We fixed all the pieces together with push pins to create moveable chooks. If you don’t have push pins, never fear. Just glue it all together.
Grab your free Chicken Diva craft printable
We then embellished our chickens with sparkly things. I offered to provide pipe cleaners and beads so that we could design some jewellery for our chicken divas, but the offer was politely declined.
Your chicken divas are now ready to strut their stuff.
If you liked this READ + CREATE project, check out the Alpaca craft we created for last year’s National Simultaneous Storytime.
