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Paper Plate Parrot Craft for Preschoolers

ByBeth Gorden

Create this bright and colorful parrot craft with just a few simple materials! This super cute paper plate parrot is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. Whether you are doing the letter b is for birds or p is for parrot, this bird craft is great for strengthening hand muscles while creating a super cute paper plate craft!

Create this bright and colorful parrot craft with just a few simple materials! This super cute paper plate parrot is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. Whether you are doing the letter b is for birds or p is for parrot, this bird craft is great for strengthening hand muscles while creating a super cute paper plate craft!

Paper Plate Parrot

Crafts are a great way for young children to strengthen hand muscles and improve coordination while becoming more confident. Making cute crafts like this paper plate parrot is something kids are proud of and they will enjoy making their own masterpieces! Use this parrot craft with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 1 students to make a fun paper plate craft. Whether you are loking for a bird craft for preschoolers for your bird theme or a p is for parrot craft for your letter of the week program as an  alphabet craft, this cute project is a must. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler you will love this animal craft for preschoolers that is simple to make, but with striking results!

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Parrot craft Preschool

Start of this easy paper plate craft with a few simple materials:

  • 2 white paper plates
  • red liquid tempera paint
  • paint brush
  • scissors
  • glue or tape
  • white and black construction paper or XL googly eyes
  • orange construction paper
  • colorful tissue paper for feathers (red, yellow, blue, and green)
  • stapler

Animal Craft for Preschoolers

Parrot craft

Start by painting both of the paper plates red on both sides. Allow them to dry.

Cut the first plate into 1/3 and 2/3 sections.  The smaller section will be the bird’s head.

Bird Craft

Parrot activities for preschool

Make eyes out of white and black construction paper and glue them onto the head.

Cut a half circle beak out of orange or yellow construction paper and glue or tape that onto the 1/3 head as well.

Parrot paper plate craft

Cut a half circle beak out of orange or yellow construction paper and glue or tape that onto the 1/3 head as well.

Paper Plate Parrot Craft

Parrot craft for toddlers

Fold the red, yellow, blue, and green tissue paper accordinat style to make feathers.

Staple them to the bottom left of the larger plate.

Paper plate parrot craft

Staple them to the bottom left of the larger plate.

For the 2nd plate, cut it into fourths and use one section only for the wing off of the main body. We added a smaller version of the tissue paper accordion to the end of the wing.

Parrot craft for preschoolers

For the 2nd plate, cut it into fourths and use one section only for the wing off of the main body. We added a smaller version of the tissue paper accordion to the end of the wing.

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Bird Craft

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Animal Craft for Preschoolers

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Spring Crafts for Kids

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Pirate Activities

Create this bright and colorful parrot craft with just a few simple materials! This super cute paper plate parrot is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. Whether you are doing the letter b is for birds or p is for parrot, this bird craft is great for strengthening hand muscles while creating a super cute paper plate craft! Are you in need of some Free Printable short vowel readers to use with your students or children at home? This super cute, free printable Pirate Themed CVC Words  Short a reader is a great way to introduce preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to cvc short a words with a fun cut and paste worksheet style activity. FREE Pirate Color by Number - super cute preschool worksheets to help perschoolers and kindergarten age kids practice number recognition with numbers 1-10 with color by number worksheets #colorbynumber #piratetheme #preschool Make your own pirate printables 2D and 3D Shape Reader to help toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders learn about shapes. This shape printable is a great way to work on reading skills while learning about shapes for kids including circle, cone, crescent, cube cylinder, decagon, heart, heptagon, hexagon, nonagon, octagon, oval, parallelogram, pentagon, pyramid, rectangle, rectangular prism, rhombus, sphere, square, star, trapezoid, triangle, triangular prism. In this pirate worksheet you will color the shape, trace the shape name, and write down how many sides your shape has. 

Pirate Printables

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Pirate Math

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Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of Preschool Play and Learn. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! Beth is also the creator of 123Homeschool4Me.com and kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com where she shares more than 100,000 pages of FREE worksheets,& educational ideas for PreK-8th grade.

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