Make a Bird Friend for your Plant!

For my latest How-To column for The Week Junior magazine, I used my favorite material, recycled cardboard, to make these bird plant decorations! With school starting, it’s a great time to make one of these to dress up your desk or workspace!

Besides the cardboard, all you need is some paint and a few pipe cleaners (for feet). There are almost no instructions here: just cut out some simple bird shapes, paint them (or hand over a pile to your kids to paint!), and cut a few pieces of pipe cleaner for the feet. I snipped off some of the pipe cleaner fuzz to taper the end, bent one end (as above), and poked it up into a channel in the corrugated cardboard. If it seems like it might fall off, you can always glue it in place.

One more thing…these are cute cake and cupcake toppers too!
Happy crafting!