Easter Chick Coloring Page

This Easter chick coloring page has one big, fluffy star. A round chick pops out of a cracked egg with its tiny wings held wide and a piece of shell on its head like a hat. The egg has three painted bands of zigzags, dots and flowers, and it sits in soft grass.

Tulips stand on both sides, and a small ladybug climbs a blade of grass. With so few parts, it is an easy pick for ages 3 to 8. A preschooler can do it in 15 minutes.

Keeping a yellow chick soft

Yellow is a pale color, and it can look thin on white paper. Go over the chick twice. Press lightly the first time, then add a second coat in small round scribbles. That gives it the fuzzy look of real down, and small kids find it very easy to do.

Add a touch of orange along the bottom of the body for a soft shadow. The beak and feet can be bright orange. Then try a little pink on each cheek. It is a tiny thing that makes the face look sweet.

Painting the egg bands

The egg is where older kids can have fun. Treat each band as its own small project. Zigzags could run pink and purple, while the dots might be blue on a yellow band. The flower band can take any spring color. Try not to use the same color twice in two bands that touch, so the lines stay easy to see.

Your kid can also add a name to the shell with a pencil. Then the egg is theirs, and it may end up on the fridge for weeks.

Easter chick coloring page ideas for grass and sky

• Use two greens on the grass and draw the strokes upward.
• Red or pink tulips look best beside all that yellow.
• Give the ladybug a bright red shell and black spots.
• Leave the sky white, or try a pale blue with a yellow sun in one corner.

That shell hat is worth a second look. Leave it white so it stands out from the chick, and add a dot of pink where the bands show through.

How a real chick gets out

A hen sits on her eggs for around three weeks. When the chick is ready, it starts to peck at the inside of the shell. It has a tiny bump on its beak, called an egg tooth, made for this one job. After hatching, the egg tooth falls off. You can read more about it in this article on the egg tooth.

Hatching is slow work. It can take a chick many hours to get out, and it rests along the way. A wet chick looks a bit scruffy at first, then dries into that soft ball of fluff. Kids who have seen a class hatching project will tell you all about it.

A shell craft for spring

Fold a sheet of yellow paper, draw half a chick and cut it out. Then cut an egg from white paper, snip a zigzag across the middle, and join the two halves with a paper fastener at the side. Open the egg and the chick pops out, just like in this Easter chick coloring page. Children can decorate the shell with the same zigzags and dots they used in the drawing.

Preschool classes can use this as a story starter. What did the chick see first? Who was there to meet it? Write each child's answer at the bottom of their page. Three year olds tell wonderful stories when you ask.

Sing it, count it, match it

The page also works for early math. Count the tulips, the bands on the egg, and the spots on the ladybug. Then match them with real things around the house. Can your child find three spoons? Two socks? Small games like this stretch a short coloring time into a longer quiet hour.

More soft spring friends

Next, try the baby chick on the farm or the woolly Easter lamb. The rest are waiting in our Easter coloring pages.

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