Crafts for Kids: D is for Duck!

by Jul 7, 2019abcd, Alphabetical, Animals, Crafts, Farm Animals, Hand Cut, Paper Crafts

 

Use this duck to help your students learn about the letter D! Duck crafts will fit right into a Farm Animals theme and help make your life one day easier. It can also be used as a puppet when you sing “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” to help them understand the sounds ducks make!

Skills

Types of skills can include math, science, fine motor, dramatic play, social and emotional. Here is how this duck applies these skills:

Math

Add in math concepts by having your child count how many legs are on a duck, or having them count how many feathers they are using on the duck’s body. Not only that, have your child identify the shapes of the duck’s eyes, head, legs, and beak.

Science

 

If you have other crafts with your child, have them classify the duck along with the other crafts. For example, ducks fall under animals, where spiders are classified as insects.

Fine Motor Skills

Your child will learn how to use scissors to cut the duck’s legs, head, and beak.

Your child will use their pincer grasp to fold the duck’s legs and/or crumble tissue paper to glue onto the duck. If you use googly eyes or sticker eyes, this will also allow them to improve their pincer grasp skills.

Dramatic Play and Social/Emotional

Children can use this duck as part of their farm and pretend to be duck waddling, flapping their wings and quacking around the place.

Boundaries

Make sure you supervise your child when using scissors and other sharp items.

Materials

You will use a white round paper plate, crayons, yellow and orange construction paper, markers, feathers, scissors, and glue.

Paper plate, orange and yellow construction paper, triangle template, and feathers.
Markers, scissors, and glue

Steps

First, color one side of the paper plate yellow. Next, fold the paper plate in half showing the color.

Next, draw a circle on the yellow construction paper for the duck’s head. Then, the child will draw eyes on the circle. You can also use googly eyes or eye stickers instead of drawing them. Depending on the child’s cutting skills, have the child cut out the circle.

Then, have the child cut two strips of orange construction paper for the legs and a small triangle for the beak. If the child does not have the cutting skills, either guide them or cut the legs and/or beak for them. You can draw the beak on the duck’s face instead of cutting out a small triangle.

Fold the legs back and forth (like a paper fan).

Lastly, have the child glue the head and the body together, and guide them as necessary. Glue the legs on the back bottom of the duck’s body, where the legs belong. Don’t forget to glue one feather to the duck’s body to represent the wing. And you are all done!

Modifications

You can use googly eyes or sticker eyes instead of having the child draw them.

Instead of coloring the paper plate yellow, you can use paint. You can use tissue paper, and have the child use their pincer grasp to crumble the paper and glue it onto the duck’s body. Or you can have the child glue the tissue papers straight onto the duck’s body

Use your imagination and make your duck any color or size you like!

Quack!

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