Delightful party favors, these little chicks are filled with jelly beans and embellished with googly eyes and feathers.
Jelly Bean Chicks
- Prep Time 45 min
- Total 45 min
- Ingredients 8
- Servings 6
Ingredients
- Scissors
- 6 orange pipe cleaners or chenille stems (about 9 inch)
- Ruler
- 24 squares yellow nylon netting, 8 inch (about 1 yard total)
- 1 1/2 cups jelly beans (assorted colors)
- Tacky craft glue or low-temperature hot glue
- 12 plastic googly eyes (about 10-mm size)
- Craft feathers, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Cut each pipe cleaner with scissors into 1 (4-inch), 2 (1 1/2-inch) and 2 (1-inch) pieces.
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Step2For each jelly bean chick, stack 4 of the netting squares. Pour 1/4 cup jelly beans onto center of netting. Pull corners of netting up over jelly beans to form bundle (this will form body of chick). Use 4-inch pipe cleaner piece as twist tie to tightly secure top, twisting ends to form beak.
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Step3To form legs with feet, twist 1-inch pipe cleaner piece around each 1 1/2-inch pipe cleaner piece, 1/2 inch from end, to form foot with 3 toes. Insert opposite ends of 1 1/2-inch pipe cleaner pieces into hole of netting on bottom of chick's body (see photo).
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Step4Trim top ends of netting with scissors into rounded shape to form head of chick. With glue, attach googly eyes to netting above beak.
Nutrition
220
Calories
0g
Total Fat
0g
Protein
55g
Total Carbohydrate
27g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: ##NO NUTRTION##
- Calories
- 220
- Calories from Fat
- 0
- Total Fat
- 0g
- 0%
- Saturated Fat
- 0g
- 0%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 30mg
- 1%
- Potassium
- 20mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 55g
- 18%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 27g
- Protein
- 0g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 3 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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