Not long and everywhere, in our gardens and the parks, we will again be able to listen to tons of twittering birds. Also bring yourself a little in spring mood by tinkering simple birds! What materials could you make our feathered friends yourself?
Paper will surely come to mind first. And that is probably the most practical variant, especially if you want to get creative together with children. But they can also combine with other materials such as springs and even use wool.
Swallows made of origami paper or construction paper
Although these pretty swallows look complicated, they are actually not at all. You can try it out and beautiful steps in a few, simple stepsBirds fold.
- Black, square paper
- white paper
- Black marker or felt pen
- Scissors
- Glue
- punch
How to make the birds made of construction paper:
- Fold the black paper in the middle.
- At the fold, draw the outlines of a swallow. You can see in the image instructions what they should look like.
- Then take white paper and fold it in the middle too. Draw a semicircle on the fold and cut it out.
- Put the swallow into the semicircle and stick the white belly preserved in this way.
- You can then punch out the tiny circles for your eyes with a hole. These can be easily positioned with tweezers.
- Draw the pupil on the white circle with a black pen. Complete!
These little swallows are perfect when they are onepretty mobilewant to tinker from birds. Simply tie cord to a embroidery frame or another type of ring/scaffolding and stick the birds on it.
Use paper strips for bird trailers
If you want to make birds out of paper strips, you can either cut the strips yourself or suchUse for quillingAnd then only cut in the desired lengths.
- Paper strips in any colors
- Scissors
- Glue
- Cord
How to tinker the cute birds to hang up:
- Head and body have a drop shape. For this purpose, they simply take a strip and glue or tackle the two ends together.
- The paper strip for the head has about two thirds of the length of the body strip and is also glued together.
- Attach head to body.
- The paper strips for legs and beak are the same length and each have about a third of the headstripe length.
- They fold the legs twice: once at a small distance to the end to get a gag as a gag and again on the other side, but in the opposite direction.
- Also attach the bird legs to the body.
- For the beak, shape a triangle by folding the strip once in the middle and twice at the ends inwards, on both sides at the same distance (for the gags).
- Glue the tabs together and the bird beak on the head.
- Tie cord for hanging.
You can tinker with several such birds and decorate the window with them by having them hang from the curtain rod. But they are also ideal for a spring bouquet or the Easter bouquet.
Birds tinker with springs and paper plates
It can be colorful with this craft idea. Would you like to tinker birdsWith kindergarten children, this manual is ideally suited because it is made easy and very quick. You need:
- paper plate
- Springs
- Teiling paper/crepe paper/construction paper (although tissue paper looks a bit fluffier and better imitates a spring dress))
- Glue
- Oranges construction paper
- white cardboard
- Optional: branch and green construction paper to design a branch)
Step by step to the colorful bird:
- Fold the plate in the middle. On one of the two sides of the wrinkle, stick a small bundle of springs, in such a way that they stand outwards. You get the spring tail.
- Fold the plate again and glue it together.
- Take the tissue paper into small pieces.
- Now work in sections: Put on a smaller area of glue and spread paper snippets on it. Continue until both sides of the plate are completely covered.
- Cut out an orange triangle and a white circle.
- Glue the beak and eye to the correct areas of the circle and draw a black circle for the pupil on the whites.
- If you want, you can also add a branch by simply attaching green leaf shapes to it. In this case, it would be practical to glue the branch between the two plates.
Tinker birds with wool
To make birds in kindergarten, you can alsoWool use. Of course, you can play with the colors and depending on your age and patience you can prepare the wool thread bundles for the children or have it made by yourself.
- Prepare three bundles in any colors. They wrap each of them in the middle with a thread.
- Place two wool bundle across cross and put one of the two strand sides over the upper bundle from the lower, so that you are hooked together.
- They tie them together again directly below the interface of the two bundle.
- Place the third bundle of wool thread over the center of these two.
- Form a ball from a handkerchief or tissue paper to give the whole thing a little volume.
- Position the paper ball below the third bundle.
- Fold the strands that point upwards to enclose the ball and third bundles.
- Now take the side strands (the third bundle) loosely forward.
- Tie all the strands below the paper ball.
- Glue your eyes with hot glue (made of pearls, peppercorns or similar things) and beak made of orange paper on the head.
