Bird in the Snow Table Decoration

Here is what you need:

clear plastic cup
Styrofoam packing worm
white glue
blue poster paint and a paintbrush
Styrofoam tray for drying
forked twig small enough to fit inside the cup
two tiny wiggle eyes
scissors
birdseed
blue and yellow construction paper scraps
masking tape
blue trim
cereal box cardboard
fiberfill
pencil

Here is what you do:

1. Carefully slide one branch of the twig through one end of the Styrofoam piece. Tip the piece up to look like a bird perched on a branch. Do this before you paint the bird because you might split the Styrofoam and need to use another one. Secure the perched bird with glue.

2. Paint the bird blue. Let the project dry on the Styrofoam tray.

3. Cut wings for the bird from the blue paper and a beak from the yellow paper. Glue the wings to the back of the bird. Glue the beak on the head of the bird. Glue two wiggle eyes above the beak.

4. Trace around the open end of the cup on the cardboard. Cut out the traced circle.

5. Glue the fiberfill to the circle for snow. Glue the branch with the bird on top of the snow. Glue some birdseed in the snow.

6. Cover the rim of the cup with masking tape to create a better gluing surface. Put glue around the opening of the cup and glue it over the bird in the snow.

7. Cover the masking tape around the bottom of the cup with glue, then decorate it with trim.

What a pretty reminder to feed the birds!

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