Coffee Filter Chick Craft

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This coffee filter chick craft made from a coffee filter is such a cute STEAM art idea for spring or Easter. My favourite part of the but adorable eyes!! Its a great way to explore chromatography.

This craft takes about 10 minutes to complete. Waiting for the coffee filter to dry after spraying it definitely takes a bit of time. But it’s also a great fine motor activity and STEAM idea watching the colour saturate the entire coffee filter with just a few sprays of water.

What is Chromotography?

What is chromotography? Chromatography is the separation of a mixture by passing it in a solution through a medium in which the parts of the mixture move at different speeds.

In this case the mixture is the washable marker or dot marker ink that you use on the coffee filter. The solution is the water that you sprayed on the coffee filter. The medium is the actually coffee filter itself. The different parts of the mixture are the various colours that make the marker.

My kids were pretty amazed to learn that markers aren’t made up of just one colour. In fact they mix several different colours together to get the exact shade of colour you see on the marker.

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Coffee Filter Chick

You can use regular washable markers for this project or dot markers. I found that we got the best results using dot makers and Mr. Sketch Scented markers.

Cover your entire coffee filter with different patterns using the yellow and orange markers. If you have different shades of orange and yellow even better, try to use them all to see have they separate on the coffee filter.

Place your coffee filter into a shallow try or baking sheet and lightly spray it with water until water has covered the entire surface of the coffee filter.

Set it aside to dry, I usually grab an empty cardboard box and set it to dry on that so that I doesn’t stain any surface and it dries faster as its not sitting the water left on the tray or baking sheet.

While you are waiting, cut out wings from yellow construction paper, and feet from orange construction paper. Fold a sheet of orange construction paper and cut out a triangle for the beak,

Cut out two larger white circles and two small white circles. Then cut out two black circles slightly smaller that the larger white ones. These will be the eyes of the chick. You can also cut out two small pink circles and glue them on for cheeks!

Use a glue stick to glue on all the elements of the chick. For the final touch add a feather to the top of your chick using a piece of tape or glue.

You can display your chick on a window, fridge or art wall!

Age Suitability

This craft is good for toddlers aged children 2 years old and up. My kids are 5, 5 and 8 years old.

Mess Level

The mess level for this craft is low.

Difficulty to Create

Low.

Skills Developed

Language development, shape recognition, color recognition, hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, imaginative play, creativity.

Supplies

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Coffee fiulters
Washable markers
Yellow, orange, white, pink and black construction paper
Glue stick
Spray bottle
Water

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