How to Make Quilled Paper Chicks
Have fun making these adorable quilled paper chicks! This beginner-friendly craft is a simple way to get started with paper quilling.
Yield: 1 quilled paper chick
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
- Quilling paper (black, yellow, and orange)
- Tacky glue
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Prepare a strip of paper
- Cut a 3 inch long strip from black quilling paper. The longer piece can be saved for another project.
- Add a tiny dot of tacky glue to one end of the black paper.
- Place the end of a piece of yellow quilling paper into the glue, connecting the 2 pieces.
- Attach another yellow strip to the end of the first one (the side not connected to the black paper).Repeat to add 2 more yellow strips, creating a 40 inch long "mega strip" of paper. Allow the glue to dry well before handling.
Step 3: Make the chick's head
- Place a needle on top of the black end of the paper.To make the chick, you'll roll the paper around the needle. You can also buy special quilling tools.
- Roll the paper around the needle until you have a tight/secure roll that holds the tension on its own. You can then remove the needle.
- Continue rolling the paper around itself until you near the end. Add a bit of glue to the end.
- Press the glued paper around the roll and hold until it's secure. This is the chick's head.
Step 4: Create the body
- Use the same technique to roll a new yellow strip around itself.
- Release some of the tension on the roll so there's some space between the layers. Once the roll is the size you'd like, glue the end in place.
- Pinch one side of this loose circle into a point, creating a teardrop shape.
- Add glue to both sides of the point.
- Attach another yellow strip to one side of the glue. Loop it around the circular part of the roll, leaving a gap between the paper layers. Then connect it to the glue on the other side.
- Cut the excess paper at the point of the teardrop.
- Repeat, gluing 2 more loops of paper around the last one, making them bigger each time.
Step 5: Create the feet and beak
- Cut 3 pieces of orange quilling paper about 3/8 inch long.Cut 1mm from the width of the 2 pieces, making them narrower. Then, cut a triangle shape from one of the short ends, making 2 feet with little toes.
- Fold the 3rd orange piece in half and cut a triangle-shaped beak (with the point on the open end).
Step 6: Assemble the chick
- Add a bit of glue to the chick's head along the paper seam.
- Connect the head to the top of the body near the looped side.
- Glue the 2 feet together with one on top of the other, toes pointing outwards. Allow the glue to mostly dry before handling.
- Add a thin line of glue to the fold of the beak. Attach it to the front of the head.
- Add glue towards the back of the feet and connect them to the bottom of the chick's body (so they stick out the front).
- Bend the point of the teardrop up to make the chick's tail.
- Your quilled paper chick is complete!
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Notes
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