Paper Craft: Colourful Curly Birds

Difficulty: Easy

Age: 5 and up

 

Description

With few pieces of color paper, you can do a colourful curly birds for decoration. Let's have fun!

What you'll need:

1. colour papers (5 different color)
2. White Glue
3. Scissors
4. Toothpick

How to make it:

Step 1

First, use below guides to measure and cut the color paper

Body: 5 (1-inch-wide) strips, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 inches long
Head: 2 (1-inch-wide) strips, 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 inches long
Tail: 5 (1 1/2-inch-wide) strips, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 inches long
Beak: 1 (1- by 2-inch) strip
Eye: 1 (1- by 1 1/2-inch) strip


Step 2

Roll the body strips into circles, overlap their ends about 1/4 inch and glue it.

Step 3
Nest the circles and glue them together.

Step 4
Repeat the same with the head strips, then glue the head to the body.

Step 5
Trim the tail strips into long triangles, then curl them a bit before gluing them together. Glue the tail to the body

Step 6

Cut the beak ask the shape as shown above.

Step 7
Roll the eye piece around a toothpick to form a small tube. Secure the tube with a thin line of glue, then glue it in place.