Homemade Spring Chicks Decoration | Simple DIY Easter craft | Spun cotton, antique-style baby chick 

Thank you very much 🥰

Oh thank you so much, Lucy! What a kind comment - I hope to be sharing a little more soon. It had been a full year for me 😁 thanks for writing! 🥰❤❤

@@Rosannamakes Then I wish you the best and I hope things go well for you in 2022.

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Thank you so much for your lovely comment! 🥰

Thank you so much for such a sweet, kind comment!! 🥰🌷🐥🌷

Oh thank you for your very kind comment! ❤

Oh thank you very much for such a kind comment! I appreciate you watching and hope it inspired you. ❤

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Oh thank you so much! What a sweet comment. 🥰

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Oh thank you for such a kind comment! I hope you do try making them and have a really good experience together! 💖

Oh thank you so much!! Very happy you liked it. 🥰

Oh thank you! I hope you enjoy it and are inspired to make a chick or two 🥰

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Ohhh, thank you so much - I'm so glad you're going to try and I hope it's lots of fun for you!

Oh thank you and thanks for watching! 😊

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Oh that's so interesting! I didn't know you could find my videos off pinterest but I suppose you can find anything there 😅 hope you enjoy making some chicks! ❤️

Awww, woohoo!! That's awesome to hear, I'm so glad you could use some trash to make something sweet!! Thanks so much for sharing! 💕🐥💕

Thank you, hope you enjoy making them!

Oh it's always good to meet a neighbor!! :)) I'm so glad you want to try them - hope you have fun! and thanks for the sweet comment.

Oh that is awfully sweet of you to say! Thank you very much 🥰 I like having company while I'm working around the house too, I think you might be the first friend I've heard from in New Zealand! Thank you for leaving a comment. ❤

Oh that is awfully sweet of you to say! Thank you very much 🥰 I like having company while I'm working around the house too, I think you might be the first friend I've heard from in New Zealand! Thank you for leaving a comment. ❤

Many thanks!!

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Oh thank you so much!! And happy making to you! 🐥

It really depends on the weather and season and also how thick your cotton layers are.. if it's very humid and cool, it might take more than a day without any "help" -- if it's winter and you have forced air heating you could set it over a vent or use a radiator to speed it up.. or I just bought a second hand toaster oven so I can "bake" mine without heating up my whole oven. You can pop things in a low temp oven, like below 250 degrees F or you can put them in an oven that you've turned off from baking. Doing that, you can cut the drying down to a few hours total.

Oh, thank you! I like to try to make something out of nothing... or out of almost nothing 😁❤❤

Thank you very much! I think I just painted those with acrylic craft paint on the outside and I might have brushed a little cotton inside and painted that.. it's been a few years! 😅

Thank you! I didn't wrap the legs, I had some pipecleaners that were sort of skinny and not quite so fluffy as some are and they worked to paint, just get the paint watery. I think you could trim the fluff off a regular pipe cleaner and paint them without much trouble! I didn't worry very much about them being completely covered because I wanted it to look old 😁

Haha, I just watched and I think it went from balancing on its feet to tipping backward. I must have jiggled the table 😁 they are a little tricky to get balanced just right 😊

That depends a lot on your house temp and humidity as I'm sure you would guess.. I used to wait for mine to dry normally or put them over a heating vent if it was fall or winter but lately I've used a warm oven to dry them faster... if I was drying a chick in the oven, I might be able to put it into an ven heated to 350 and shut off, for an hour or so, and it would be dry.. the subsequent layers of cotton would take 30 minutes or so as for me they are usually thinner. Again, this is all sort of subjective as my cotton layer might be thinner than yours or I might use more or less glue wash.. it's what make this a real folk art craft because it's not precise! I talk a little about the oven method in my make along for valentine hearts but I will try to address it more specifically in the next video! Thanks for asking - oh and I know some people use a blow dryer but I don't blow dry my hair and hated it as a teen so I don't plan to start blow drying my spun cotton if I can help it! 😅

@@Rosannamakes Thanks so much for taking the time to reply! I have been using the dryer vent and sunshine. Love your work. You are an inspiration!

@@cathyhousewright6190 those are great too ☀️☀️☀️ very resourceful and natural!

Thank you. I just washed it, it was a pale green egg shell so I didn't have to dye it and then used acrylic paints. I lined the inside with cotton fibers, too, to hopefully make it stronger, but we'll see! Happy making!

@@Rosannamakes thanks again! Will be perfect for Easter. I saw the donkey you made on Instagram. So cute!!!! You’re so talented!

I just painted the pipe cleaners as is, they were a smaller pipe cleaner, not the very fuzzy kiddy-style ones, but I did try wrapping the pipe cleaners with tape (not in the video) and it wasn't worth the time for me personally. Some people use floral tape for wrapping wire for birds feet. Hope that helps!

@@Rosannamakes Thanks I am definitely going to give spun cotton Mâché a try! I don’t really know what it’s called is it called just spun cotton? I have use clay Mâché for many years but I like this so much better I can’t wait to try it

@@missmolliesart8188 it is my form of spun cotton 😅, you're right, it's more like cotton mache, probably because I do use paper mache technique a lot and so that happened alongside. Traditional spun cotton uses longer fiber cotton and more wrapping, so I'm probably stretching to call it that! But I hope you do enjoy it!

I'm glad you found a way to suffer through 😳