Friday, May 10, 2013

weekend fun: Bird Puppet


Early Bird Puppet

Learn how to make a friendly bird puppet from a paper bag.
Early Bird Puppet

What you'll need
  • Paper lunch bag, 
  • craft glue, 
  • wrapping paper, 
  • scissors, 
  • blue and orange tissue paper, 
  • 2 white bottle caps, 
  • ribbon, 
  • double-stick tape, 
  • curly ribbon bunches 
  • gift-wrap bow

Make it:
1. Beak: Lay paper bag flat with bottom facing up. Fold the 2 bottom corners of bag's bottom up; secure with glue. Cut a triangle the width of bag from orange wrapping paper and glue over the turned-up bottom of bag.
2. Head: Cut a dome shape the width of bag and about 5" tall from wrapping paper. Fringe the straight edge and glue to bag just above the triangle.
3. Eyes and nostrils: Roll 2 small balls of tissue paper in each color. Glue blue ones inside 2 bottle caps and glue on bird's head. Glue 2 orange balls on beak.
4. Body: Cut 6 2" strips of ribbon; glue.
5. Tape a curly ribbon bunch to either side of the bag as wings. Stick gift-wrap bow to top for head feathers.

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