Easter Chick

Free crochet tutorial for an Easter Chick by Svetlana Lyutova @svet_lana_lyutova.

Using this pattern, you can crochet an Easter chick. Any acrylic, cotton, or cotton blend yarn and a matching crochet hook will work for this amigurumi. You can decorate the chick with rhinestones, seed beads, or beads.

The finished toy is about 8.5 cm tall.

Materials and Tools

• Acrylic yarn: yellow, white, red
• 1.6 mm crochet hook
• Thread for embroidering the face
• Safety eyes, 7 mm
• Toy stuffing
• Rhinestones
• Needle
• Glue
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR — magic ring
• ch — chain stitch
• sl st — slip stitch
• sc — single crochet
• dc — double crochet
• tr — treble crochet
• hdc — half double crochet
• inc — increase
• dec — decrease
• (...) x n — repeat n times

Crochet amigurumi Easter Chick Pattern

Head

Use yellow yarn. Stuff as you go.

Rnd 1: 6 sc in MR
Rnd 2: 6 inc = 12 sc
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 = 18 sc
Rnd 4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 = 24 sc
Rnd 5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 = 30 sc
Rnd 6: 30 sc
Rnd 7: (4 sc, inc) x 6 = 36 sc
Rnd 8: (5 sc, inc) x 6 = 42 sc
Rnds 9-15: 42 sc (7 rounds)
Rnd 16: (5 sc, dec) x 6 = 36 sc
Rnd 17: (4 sc, dec) x 6 = 30 sc
Rnd 18: (3 sc, dec) x 6 = 24 sc

Finish with 1 sl st, leaving a tail for sewing.

Body

Stuff as you go. Start crocheting with yellow yarn.

Rnd 1: 6 sc in MR
Rnd 2: 6 inc = 12 sc
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 = 18 sc
Rnd 4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 = 24 sc
Rnd 5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 = 30 sc
Change yarn color and continue with white yarn.
Rnd 6: 30 sc
Rnd 7: in back loops only: (4 sc, inc) x 6 = 36 sc
Rnd 8: 36 sc
Rnd 9: (5 sc, inc) x 6 = 42 sc
Rnd 10: (6 sc, inc) x 6 = 48 sc
Rnds 11-17: 48 sc (7 rounds)
Change yarn color to yellow.
Rnd 18: in back loops only: 48 sc
Rnd 19: (6 sc, dec) x 6 = 42 sc
Rnd 20: (5 sc, dec) x 6 = 36 sc
Rnd 21: (4 sc, dec) x 6 = 30 sc
Rnd 22: (3 sc, dec) x 6 = 24 sc
Rnd 23: (2 sc, dec) x 6 = 18 sc
Rnd 24: (1 sc, dec) x 6 = 12 sc
Rnd 25: 6 dec

Finish crocheting and cut the yarn.

Shell Points

Attach white yarn to the front loops of round 18 and crochet the shell points:

Rnd 1: (1 sc, 1 hdc, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sc, 1 sl st, 1 sc, 1 dc, 1 tr, 1 dc, 1 sc, 1 sl st) x 4

Finish crocheting, leaving a tail for sewing. This gives you 4 small points and 4 large points, 8 points in total.

Then sew the shell points to the body by their tips.

Wings (2 Pieces)

Use yellow yarn. Crochet both pieces the same way.

Rnd 1: 6 sc in MR
Rnd 2: 1 sc, work 2 dc in 1 stitch, work 3 tr in 1 stitch, work 2 dc in 1 stitch, 2 sc = 10
Rnd 3: 1 sc, (3 ch, 1 sl st in the next stitch) x 7, 1 sc, 1 sl st

Finish crocheting, leaving a tail for sewing.

Comb

Use red yarn. Chain 6:

Rnd 1: in the 4th stitch, work 1 sl st, 3 ch, 1 sl st in the next stitch, 3 ch, 1 sl st in the first stitch of the chain

Finish crocheting. Leave a tail for sewing.

Legs (2 Pieces)

Use red yarn. Crochet both pieces the same way.

Rnd 1: 6 sc in MR
Rnd 2: 1 sl st, 1 sl st, (4 ch, starting from the 2nd stitch from the hook work 3 sc along the chain, 1 sl st into the same base stitch, 1 sl st in the next stitch) x 3

Finish crocheting, leaving a tail for sewing.

Tail

Use yellow yarn. Do not stuff.

Rnd 1: 6 sc in MR
Rnd 2: (1 sc, inc) x 3 = 9 sc
Rnd 3: (2 sc, inc) x 3 = 12 sc
Rnd 4: 6 sc through both loops

Finish crocheting, leaving a tail for sewing.

Beak

Use red yarn. Make a chain of 8 ch and join it into a ring. Pull the ring tight in the center and tie a knot.

Toy Assembly

• Glue or insert the eyes
• Sew on the beak and comb
• Sew the head to the body. Sew around the head loops and through the ridge between rounds 4 and 5
• Decorate the upper part of the body. Attach white yarn to the front loops of round 7 and crochet 30 sc
• Sew on the wings. Sew the wings only by the upper part
• Sew on the legs
• Sew on the tail. The chick should stand steadily because of the tail, so keep this in mind while sewing it on
• If desired, embroider the whites of the eyes with white yarn and embroider the eyebrows with regular black sewing thread
• Decorate with rhinestones if desired
• Our chick is ready!