Cute Wood Slice Spring Chicken Decoration

This easy-to-make cute wooden slice spring hen is an ideal ornament for all spring and Easter seasons.  When you find yourself on the lookout for the right spring ornament, skip the flowery boutiques and create the last word rustic decor your self.  Mix wooden slices with sturdy wooden glue and create a enjoyable ornament that’s versatile as a centerpiece, on a mantle, and even hanging in your house!

Cute Wooden Slice Spring Hen Ornament

It may be so exhausting to search out cute spring decorations. Every thing is targeted on Easter and typically you simply need spring. Since I like crafting with wooden slices, I made a decision to make some spring hen decorations. These wood chickens can be utilized as a country farmhouse type design, used to rejoice the beginning of hotter climate within the spring, or used as a part of Easter decor.  They give the impression of being nice alongside crafts like this flowerpot hen concept!

You may get these small wooden slices from a whole lot of shops in your space. Craft shops and massive shops typically have these slices at a really affordable value. Typically, you possibly can even discover the wooden items at greenback shops.  They’re tremendous helpful for all types of decor together with this cute wooden slice bunnies craft and even these lovely little wooden slice photograph decorations.

If you cannot discover the wooden slices at a neighborhood retailer, you can too purchase them on-line. Locations like Amazon, crafts retailer web sites like Michaels, or on-line shops like Etsy. For those who stay in a wooded space, you may make slices in a cut-off limb. You need to use a fallen limb or one that’s lower off the tree whereas trimming.

Methods to Customise This Wooden Slice Spring Hen Ornament

I’m leaving this wooden hen with a uncooked look and letting the pure wooden colours shine by way of. Nonetheless, you may make your chick distinctive with all types of enjoyable additions.  Under are a couple of nice concepts that we love. 

• The primary straightforward possibility is to color or stain the wooden items to present the hen a novel look.
• Use paint pens or craft paint to attract a face on the wooden slice and even simply add little particulars like wings or feathers. 
• Glue actual feathers onto the edges of the wooden. 
• Add glitter or glitter glue particulars so the chicken sparkles. 

Get artistic and arrange your hen to have a novel character with easy adjustments.  Whether or not it’s a totally different shade, stain, or embellishment that offers it type, there are quite a few choices to make this chick craft have your type and character. 

Show This Wood Hen Design

I like rustic decorations like this one.  It’s nice for including one thing distinctive to your mantle or Easter dinner centerpiece.  That is sufficiently small that it may be part of one other ornament, but in addition giant sufficient to face out by itself for those who want. 

You’ll be able to prop this chick on a shelf, bookcase, desk, or mantle.  Different choices embrace including wire to hold it from the ceiling.  After all, I like the concept of gluing a heavy dowel rod beneath the chick and making it straightforward to stay right into a potted plant. 

Add this to your entrance porch decor for a enjoyable little springtime addition that’s cute and easy.  It’s ultimate for these with a country type or a farmhouse decor type. 

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Make a Wooden Slice Hen

Use scissors or a craft knife to trim the bark off of the highest and backside of the bigger wooden slice so you have got a flat high and flat backside with a rounded facet. 

Do the identical on just one facet of the smaller wooden slice. You need to use sandpaper to easy these edges in order for you a cleaner edge. 

Now, glue the smaller one on high of the bigger one in order that the 2 are glued collectively on the flattened areas.  

Subsequent, glue the oval wooden slice to the facet of the “chicken” to create a wing. 

Paint the wing with cream, pink, or brown paint and set it apart to dry. If desired, you possibly can paint the whole chicken right now, however it isn’t essential to create a country look. 

As soon as the wing has dried, add a small beak from wooden to the entrance. That is straightforward to make from scrap wooden, a toothpick, or perhaps a dowel that has been lower into a degree.  If not out there, you need to use felt or paper to create just a little peak. 

Then use a marker to create a watch on the facet. 

Use pliers to form a chunk of steel or floral wire into an “m”. 

Wrap twine across the “m’ loosely, then glue into place.  You need a number of the steel to point out, however for those who want it may be painted or you would wrap the twine all the best way across the steel so it’s completely coated. 

Glue this tail onto the underside facet of the chicken under the wing.  

Subsequent, lower out some ribbon and tie it across the neck of the chicken, then tie the ends right into a bow form.  Glue this to safe in place. 

If desired, you possibly can add further gildings like feathers, glitter, or paint the opposite wooden slices earlier than you show it!

Extra Simple Easter Crafts

If you’d like or want extra inspiration to create cute little chick-themed crafts, take a look at a few of my favorites under.  These are nice all through the springtime months however are additionally ultimate for Easter decor.  Get crafting quickly and be sure to bookmark or print out these tutorials in your subsequent crafting day!

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You may also paint or stain all the wooden slices to present this hen its personal distinctive look. 

I like the concept of creating these in numerous sizes to create a cute little chick household!