Make your own crow, or indeed, mix it up and make any number of different birds you could find in the British Isles and beyond. While, as a scarecrow festival, the crow is a natural choice for us here – and really easy for smaller children to make well, the basis of this craft is flexible enough to reward order children who want to cut out their own feathers from coloured paper to make parrots, pigeons, blue tits… or whatever else you’ve seen recently in your parks and gardens. You could have your very own flock to create a larger collage!
Don’t forget to share pictures of your makes with us on social media with the hashtag #kettlewellscarecrow – we’d love to see how you get on!
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Make your own crow
Quick and easy to make, you can repurpose old cereal boxes to make your crow - or even a whole flock, if you feel that way inclined!
Materials
- 2 large sheets of paper
- Pencil
- Black paint
- 2 wiggly eyes
Tools
- Scissors
- Paintbrush
Instructions
- Draw a rough outline of a bird onto the paper.
- Draw a beak shape and feet.
- Paint or colour your crow black. Let it dry.
- Paint your hands, or get a friend to help you. Put your
hands onto the paper to make a print. - When everything is dry, cut around the handprints and cut
out the bird shape, beak and feet. - Glue on the beak and feet, and add the wiggly eyes.
Notes
Using the basic shapes here, you can also go on and make chickens, parrots, pigeons... just use what you have to hand in the way of paint, scrap tissue paper, etc - older children can cut out coloured paper to layer feather shapes over the body.
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