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PROJECTS
Li'l Chick Over Easy
Designed By: Paula Bales
Typical Project Completion Time: 1-2 hours
(does not include drying time)
| MATERIALS NEEDED: |
STYROFOAM* Brand Products:
4" egg
Other Materials:
White or pale yellow knit sock
White stiff felt, 6" x 2"
Acrylic paints: boysenberry pink, lamp black, pineapple, titanium white
Nos. 6 and 10 shader paintbrushes
1/4" wooden dowel, 6-1/2" length
24-gauge wire, 3" length
Serrated knife
Candle stub or paraffin
Glues: fabric; white craft
Scissors
Ruler
Wire cutters
Fine-line black permanent marking pen
Toothpick
Paper towels
Disposable palette
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Download pattern (100K pdf)
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| INSTRUCTIONS: |
| 1. Wax serrated knife with a candle stub or paraffin. Use knife to cut 1/4" from wide end of egg so it will stand upright. |
| 2. Cut top off sock, leaving approximately 5" from toe to cut edge. Slide egg, wide end first, into sock and push until flush with toe. Gather sock at top of chick and wire to secure. Make several vertical cuts in gathered fabric. Pull and stretch clipped fabric to form a tuft of feathers. |
| 3. Using photo as a guide, poke leg holes in bottom front of chick with a scissors tip. Cut two 3-1/4" lengths from the wooden dowel and glue in holes for legs. |
| 4. Using patterns, cut two wings from reserved sock fabric. Also cut beak and feet as indicated. |
| 5. Paint chick body, legs, and wings pineapple. (Note: If using yellow sock, you do not need to paint the body, legs and wings.) Paint beak and feet bosenberry pink. Let dry. |
| 6. Dip paintbrush handle in lamp black to dot two eyes close together. Let dry. With a toothpick, dot white highlights on eyes and black highlights on beak. Drybrush cheeks with boysenberry pink to blush. |
| 7. Glue wings to sides of chick with tips pointing down. Glue beak centered just below eyes and feet to ends of legs. |
| 8. Draw tiny eyebrows and smile lines extending from top of beak with black marking pen. |
| 9. Tie fabric strip in a small bow and glue to center top of chick just below tuft of feathers. |
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