The Lunar New Year is a time for family, friends, and food.
You can celebrate the holiday with your kids by hosting a themed dinner party with delicious food and fun decorations.
13 Peacock Craft For Kids
But what if your child is too young to help with the cooking? Here are some great craft ideas that will ease their pain when they’re left out of kitchen duty!
Peacock Egg Carton Craft
Materials
- egg cartons
- glue stick
- construction paper in colors of your choice (for the peacock’s body and the eyes)
- scissors, pencil, or marker for tracing shapes
Popsicle Stick Peacock Card
This craft is a great way to use up leftover popsicle sticks and paint, plus it’s easy enough that even the littlest crafters can join in on the fun.
Collect your popsicle sticks and other supplies. You’ll need popsicle sticks, some glue (to hold them together), and peacock feathers (if you don’t have any feathers, you can use peacock feather stickers).
Paint each end of the popsicle stick with bright colors like blue or red.
Glue a bunch of these colorful ends together into a circle shape that forms an “O” when viewed from above. Let dry for about an hour before moving on to step 4!
Paper Plate Peacock Craft
Materials
- Paper plates in various colors
- Googly eyes (at least one per peacock will be needed)
- Glue (I use Elmer’s Glue-All)
Time to Make 10 minutes or less, depending on how many you make and how detailed you want them to be. The more time you spend on this craft the more time it will take.
Time for storage is also easy, just put all your peacocks away until next year when you can reuse them again! Easy peasy lemon squeezy, as my Grandma would say.
How to Use Them
I’ve used these at parties as centerpieces and even had them hanging from trees outside! They look great in any setting and add a nice touch of color without being too overwhelming or expensive like balloons or confetti might be
Box Peacock Craft
The peacock is a beautiful bird that has a vivid, colorful display of feathers.
It’s no wonder children love them! You can make your own papercraft peacock using a simple box, some craft paper, and markers.
The best part about this project is that it will only take about 15 minutes from start to finish!
Printable Peacock Paper Bag Puppets
Printable peacock puppets are great for kids to use in a puppet show, puppet play, or puppet performance.
Print these out and cut them out then hand the pieces over to your child so they can put together their very own paper bag peacock.
Let them decorate their paper bag peacocks how they want using crayons or markers!
How to Make a Peacock Feather Hat Craft
Materials
- A sheet of poster board, or any other stiff paper.
- Feathers (as many as you can get)
- Glue stick or tape to secure the feathers on the hat.
Instructions
- Cut out the peacock feather shape using a pair of scissors.
Place glue on the backside of one single feather and press firmly onto the bottom left corner of one side of your cutout peacock feather shape (you should have glued two feathers together at this point).
Repeat until all sides are covered by feathers/feather shapes, overlapping them slightly as necessary for fullness and harmony within your design aesthetic preference(s).
Use tape if necessary to keep everything in place; this is especially helpful when working with small children who may not be able to hold down pieces for long periods at a time due to short attention spans caused by sugar rushes from eating too many lollipops while making crafts!
Remember that no matter what happens during this stage, there’s no right way or wrong way when it comes to creating something new — just relax into whatever happens naturally without stress over whether everything needs perfect alignment before moving forward towards completion!
Handprint Art Picture Craft
Made with a Handprint Peafowl and Footprint Bird Feet!
The supplies you will need to make this craft are listed below.
- 1 sheet of white construction paper
- and sharp scissors (for cutting out the handprint peacock)
- a pencil or fine tip marker (to trace around the footprints, if desired)
- black and yellow craft paint in squeeze bottles, or paint brushes for painting by hand with acrylic paints (the type used for oil paintings will work best because they are thick and stay on longer than watercolors.)
To make this project: First, cut a peacock body shape out of the paper as shown above. Next, trace around your child’s foot on yellow construction paper and cut out two bird feet shapes; these can be placed under either side of their handprints so they look like they are standing up straight instead of laying down flat against each other.
If you want to add eyes or any other details to your peacock picture, draw them onto him now before painting begins! Finally, use black paint around all four sides where his wings meet up with his body so that there won’t be any white showing through when we begin applying coats over top later on today’s lesson plan )
When finished painting everything together should look similar enough like mine pictured above but feel free to experiment with different color combinations based on ours if desired )
Some great display ideas include hanging them up inside frames such as picture frames made from cardboard boxes covered firstly wrapping plastic bags around both ends and then covering those again using old newspaper strips stapled tightly into place keeping everything secure enough so no moisture gets inside causing mold growth which could ruin those precious memories forever!
Peacock Friendship Bracelet Kids Craft
Start with a length of embroidery floss about 18 inches (45 cm) long, then tie both ends together to make a circle.
Holding the two ends of your bracelet firmly, wrap them around the center three times and hold tightly as you pull tightly on each end to complete your knotting step.
Now add more strands by wrapping another layer around it in an over-under pattern (over 3 times, under 3 times).
Continue adding layers until you reach your desired thickness!
Easy Tissue Paper Peacock Kids Craft
This is an easy peacock craft for kids.
It can be made with the help of your child or you can make this alone while they play around.
To make paper tissue peacock, you need
- Paper Tissue (Colors of your choice)
- Glue (of any brand)
DIY Paper Plate Peacocks – A Great Recycled Kid’s Craft
These paper plate peacocks are a fun craft that you can make with your kids out of recycled materials.
Materials
- Paper plates (the bigger the better)
- Hole punch or sharp scissors (we prefer hole punches because they leave less of a mess behind)
- Craft straws of different sizes and colors, or pipe cleaners cut into pieces that will fit through the paper plate holes. You’ll need one straw per peacock’s tail; two straws per peacock’s beak; three straws per peacock’s eye
Foil Embossed Moon-Shaped Bookmarks for the Lunar New Year
Materials
- Foam board
- Foam core board (optional)
- Craft knife or utility knife to cut the foam board
- 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper for the bookmark design
- Letter stickers to spell out your choice of Lunar New Year greeting, such as “Happy New Year” or “Happy Chinese New Year” (from Oriental Trading)
- Scissors and tape for assembly if making them from scratch.
Note. If using pre-cut squares of foil paper, no need to use a craft knife to make these bookmarks. You will still need scissors, tape or glue for assembly though!
Stained Glass Candle Holder for the Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year Celebration!
Stained glass is a fun craft for kids. The materials are easy to find, and the technique is simple enough to keep them engaged.
They can use a variety of colors and patterns, as well as shapes and sizes. You can even use different materials like foil or glitter!
- Use a variety of colors
- Use a variety of shapes
- Use a variety of sizes
- Use a variety of patterns
- Use a variety of textures
Cute Paper Plate Panda Faces
An Easy Animal Craft for Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year Celebrations!
- You will need:
- paper plate
- paint (black and white)
- glue gun and glue stick (optional)
Start by painting the paper plate black, then add white to make it a bit more colorful. Allow drying completely before moving on.
Next, draw two eyes on the panda face using a pencil; you can also use markers or crayons if you like! Then use scissors to cut out your design (make sure not to cut too close!).
Use this template for all four pandas that are pictured above—it’s just easier than having each child draw their own designs!
Conclusion
Have fun with these peacock crafts! If you’re looking for more great kids’ craft ideas, check out our other crafts for kids and activities.
