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Handprint Rooster Craft For Kids [Free Template]

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When you think about a farmyard, what’s the first animal that comes to mind? For us, it’s the rooster! Kids always imagine roosters crowing, waking everyone up at sunrise.

If your little one is learning about farms or birds, this handprint rooster activity is a must-try! It’s a fun and easy farm animal craft that preschoolers and kindergarteners will love.

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Plus, it’s a simple paper craft that’s perfect for keeping little hands busy. Check out our video tutorial below and grab the free printable template to make crafting even easier!

Easy Rooster For Preschool

This cute and colorful printable rooster template is a sweet keepsake to make with little ones after a field trip to the farm. As they make their handprint birds, they’ll be building fine motor muscles, hand eye coordination, and developing all kinds of early learning skills.

Supplies

Directions

Start by downloading and printing the template. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this rooster to life!

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First, guide your child to trace your child’s hand onto a piece of orange paper and cut it out. Position the handprint with the thumb facing up and the fingers facing to the right, then place the wing in the middle of the palm and glue it in place.

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Glue the comb to the top of the head.

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Next, help your child to take the eye and glue it just below the comb, near the left edge of the head.

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Place a dab of glue on the top, pointy party of the wattle and glue the beak to the front.

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Now, glue the beak/wattle piece just in front of the eye, on the left side of the head.

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Take the completed head and glue it to the thumb portion of the handprint.

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Finally, encourage your child to glue the legs to the back of the rooster body.

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That’s it! Don’t forget to explore our other animal crafts for your kiddos while you’re here!

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Farm Animal Books For Kids

Mr.s Wishy-Washy’s Farm is a classic farm animal books for kids. In this story, the animals revolt against Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s baths and leave the farm. You have to read the story to find out what crazy shenanigans the animals run into after they leave the farm!

Little Blue Truck is one of the most popular books in our house. The cool illustrations and rhyming words really make this story fun to read. And with a whole series after this one, kids love getting to know the characters more and more!

The Cow Said Neigh! is a fun and silly book about farm animals who wish they were another farm animal. Kids will enjoy the rhyming and learn that each of us (animals included) has strengths we should embrace.

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Farmyard Crafts

Crafting is a great hands-on way for kids to learn. With every brush stroke, snip of the scissors, or piece glued down, kids are developing skills like hand-eye coordination and fine motor control. Give them a chance to get creative with some of the Easter crafts below!

Sheep Tissue Paper Craft – Mimic the look of a sheep’s fluffy coat with our fun and hands-on activity. It’s an amusing way for kids to build manual dexterity as they create a sweet fluffy sheep to enjoy at home or in the classroom.

Chick Paper Bag Puppet Craft – If you have a paper bag and construction paper on hand, you can make this easy DIY together with your preschool and kindergarten kiddos. This simple idea is perfect for spring, Easter, or a farm animal theme, and it’s a great way to sneak in some scissor practice!

A collage of farm animal crafts for kids features cotton ball sheep on colored paper, yellow paper bag chicks, goat headband crafts, and handprint-style brown horses. Each project uses bright construction paper and simple shapes to represent animals.Pin

Goat Headband Craft – Looking for a fun and easy farm animal craft? This adorable project is perfect for preschool and kindergarten kids to color, cut, and wear. It adds a playful touch to any farm unit, storytime, or dress-up day!

Horse Handprint Craft – Kids can get creative while learning about horses with this fun idea! They’ll love turning their handprints into cute horses using common craft supplies. Once their creations are complete, they can show them off on the fridge or proudly display them on a classroom bulletin board.

Farm Animal Activities for Kindergarten

Reveal the hidden pictures in these farm animal color by numbers printable activities for kindergarten children. They make learning to recognize colors and numbers much more exciting!

Need fun, low-prep activities to keep your kids engaged and learning? These farm animal printables for preschool include tracing, matching, coloring, and cut-and-paste pages that help preschool and kindergarten kids build fine motor skills, practice counting, and learn animal names.

They’re perfect for quiet time, classroom centers, or adding to a farm-themed unit.

A collage of farm-themed kids' activities includes color-by-number worksheets featuring a pig, a lamb, and a tractor, along with illustrated farm animal flashcards showing a pig, horse, cow, and rooster. Brightly colored markers and cloths in red, green, blue, and gingham patterns are used as props.Pin

Do your kids like coloring? We love the amazing early learning benefits that coloring exercises have in store for little hands. Try these sheep coloring pages to get creative with your early learners this week.

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Need more ways to practice the alphabet with your kindergartners? These Find the Letter D is for Donkey worksheets from 3 Boys and a Dog will help your preschool and early-elementary-aged children work on recognizing the letter D among many other letters of the alphabet.

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Handprint Rooster Craft For Kids

Prep Time: 7 minutes
Active Time: 7 minutes
Total Time: 14 minutes
This handprint rooster craft is a fun farm animal activity that's great for young children!
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Author: Sam
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Materials

  • Colored cardstock or construction paper
  • Pencil
  • Glue
  • Scissors
  • Rooster template

Instructions

  • Download the rooster template, print, and cut out the pieces you need.
  • Begin by tracing your child’s hand onto a piece of orange paper and cut it out. Position the handprint with the thumb facing up and the fingers facing to the right, then place the wing in the middle of the palm and glue it in place.
  • Glue the comb to the top of the head.
  • Next, take the eye and glue it just below the comb, near the left edge of the head.
  • Place a dab of glue on the top, pointy party of the wattle and glue the beak to the front.
  • Now, glue the beak/wattle piece just in front of the eye, on the left side of the head.
  • Take the completed head and glue it to the thumb portion of the handprint.
  • Finish off the rooster by gluing the legs to the back of the rooster body.

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JESSA PIANAR

Saturday 5th of April 2025

useful

Kamille - Community Support Assistant

Sunday 6th of April 2025

Appreciate that! Happy it was helpful.

Luciani

Wednesday 30th of October 2024

Quero o molde do galo

Sam

Thursday 31st of October 2024

Of course! All you need to do is enter your email in the form at the end of this post to have the confirmation link sent to you.

TAMEKA

Sunday 13th of October 2024

Great craft would love to do it with my two year olds farm themed week

Sam

Monday 14th of October 2024

Since you’re a subscriber, you just need to enter your email in the form at the end of the post. After that, it’ll automatically redirect you to the download page ◡̈

Tameka

Sunday 13th of October 2024

Wow thank you for all you do

Ara

Sunday 19th of May 2024

I love to have this template.

Sam

Monday 20th of May 2024

Since you’re already an email subscriber, all you need to do is enter your email in the form at the end of any post and it’ll automatically redirect you to the download page ◡̈

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