How To Make A Colorful Macaw Craft For Kids (with Free Pattern)

Two of my very favorite birds live in the Rainforest so when I found out Rainforest was our theme for this week’s creative preschool group I was so excited! Since we have already created a Toucan craft in the past, we decided to make our focus this week on the beautiful Macaw. We read a few books to learn about the Rainforest and then made our craft. I’m pretty excited to share with you how to make a colorful Macaw Craft for Kids today. Since I love all of you so much, I have included my free pattern to make the craft even more simple for you.

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Supplies needed:

Macaw Pattern
red, black and gray cardstock paper
small paper plate
red, green and blue acrylic paint
paint brush
white tissue paper (cut into squares)
googly eye
scissors
glue

Tutorial:

1. Print and cut out pattern

Start by printing off the Macaw Pattern and cutting out all of the pieces. Use the pattern pieces to trace and cut the body out of red cardstock paper, beak out of black cardstock paper and feet out of gray cardstock paper. You will also need to trace your child’s closed handprint onto red cardstock paper three times and cut them out. (Note: I’m showing you the pieces I cut out for tutorial purposes, but I suggest letting your preschooler cut out all the pattern pieces if they are able.)

2. Colour your plate with paint

Paint your small paper plate with your red, green and blue paint. We painted a ring of red and green and a blue circle in the middle. Let it dry completely.

3. Crumple tissue paper and glue it to the face

While your paper plate dries, crumple up your white tissue paper squares and glue them around the face of the Macaw. Glue your beak and your googly eye onto the Macaw.

4. Glue handprints to make feathers

Layer and glue together the three handprints to make the end feathers of the bird. Glue them onto the end of the bird.

5. Add feet

Glue your feet onto the bottom of the bird. We wanted our bird to look like it was in flight so I trimmed my front foot to make it look tucked up against the bird.