The paper bird's nest was made from a regular brown lunch bag.The paper is lighter weight as compared to kraft paper or card stock and easier to wrap with.
Make these delicate and simple bird's nests with your kids using old magazines or catalogs, a bowl, and some glue. Gorgeous for Easter or Springtime.
Learn how to make shredded paper nests out of an upcycled brown grocery bag. Handcraft these nests to incorporate into your spring or Easter decor
I have a post-it note beside my desk with the letters J, K, N, U, X, and Y on it. Those are the letters that are still missing from my list of Children's Crafts from A-Z. Trevor and I are determined to craft our way through the remaining letters as soon as possible. In the past few weeks, we've knocked Q (Quail) and V (Volcano) off the list. Once I finish this post, we'll scratch N off the list. N is for Nest! Paper Plate Nest Supplies: small paper plate (cake size) brown paint shredded basket filler cotton balls chalk googly eyes crayon cardstock or construction paper scissors glue We started by cutting a paper plate in half. Each of us painted our half with various shades of brown to look like a nest. (Our plate started out blue.) Here's how my nest looked when the paint was dry. To give the nest texture, we glued on some of the paper bits that came in a gift basket we received. We kept going until our nests were well-covered. The next step was adding cotton ball birds. We rubbed some chalk on cotton balls, then added googly eyes and little paper beaks. We tucked the birds behind the nest. Here's mine: Trevor chose to make two pink chicks and one blue egg that hadn't hatched yet. The final step was making a background. We started with light blue for the background. We cut brown cardstock to make a tree trunk and branch, then used a crayon to give it a more realistic tree texture. We cut out green leaves to attach to the branches. Trevor left his leaves flat, while I bent mine to give them texture. Finally, we glued the nest and birds in place. Here's Trevor's artwork. Mine is at the top of the post. Five letters to go!
Make these delicate and simple bird's nests with your kids using old magazines or catalogs, a bowl, and some glue. Gorgeous for Easter or Springtime.
Learn how to make small, colorful mushrooms from recycled egg cartons, rigatoni pasta, corks, and acrylic paint.
Make a colorful, free-form doodle weaving using a homemade cardboard loom. Simple enough for kids, teens, and adults alike!
I was thinking about spring and came up with these paper Hyacinths. Why Hyacinths you might ask....... ....because it has been so warm the last few weeks my Hyacinths are sprouting. Now to you in the south this is no big deal but here in Calgary this is early. In fact we got some snow last night and I had to wait for it to melt before I could take this picture today. So if you want some Hyacinths blooming in the house give these a try with your kids. FIRST WAY: If you happen to live by a pine forest and have access to large pinecones you can try this. Gather up a pinecone, some small squares of tissue paper, glue and a pencil. Take a square of tissue paper and wrap on the eraser end of the pencil. Dip the end into your glue. Stick in between the sections of the cone. Keep going filling out the cone. 2ND and 3RD WAY: If you don't have pinecones lying around your house take a paper roll and cut it into an arrow shape at the top. Paint it with tempera or acrylic paint. Choose a shade that fits with the colors you are using for your Hyacinth. Since you have your paints out you might want to paint some paper to use for the flowers. Here I'm just painting newspaper. This is also a good time to dig into that scrap paper stash. Take your painted paper roll and glue the top together. Now if you look a a Hyacinth it is made up of a lot of star shaped flowers. Taking your painted and scrap paper start cutting some star shapes out. If you happen to have a star or flower shaped punch you can use that. You then stick these all over your paper roll. Now if you don't want to cut out all those flower shapes you can take small squares of tissue paper, squash into a ball and stick on the paper roll with glue. Draw out some leaf shapes onto green paper. You can use white and paint it green. They look quite nice with some painted stripes on them...choose a lighter color than your paper and a darker color. Now for your pot you could use a terracotta but I like these plain peat pots I buy at the Garden store. They paint up very nicely with tempera paints as explained in this post. Take your leaves and curl them a bit thru your fingers. You can glue them in place if you wish. Try to give each pot 3 leaves. I then stuffed the pot first with a paper towel and then added some paper grass on the top. Then glue in your Hyacinth. That's it. Before I go I want to show you some photos of the Grade 1's Spring weaving projects..... Click on the picture if want to see it larger and read the poems. Awesome job Grade One! Well I'll see you next time...working on a project for Grade 5 and of course we have Easter coming. Grade 1 is putting together their Leprechaun traps so I hope to have some picturs of those next week. See you soon.
Welcome spring by making this simple bird's nest with your kids using recycled paper bags. Or, try colored pastel paper for an Easter decoration.
Learn how to make shredded paper nests out of an upcycled brown grocery bag. Handcraft these nests to incorporate into your spring or Easter decor
RECYCLED PAPER BIRD'S NEST
Make these delicate and simple bird's nests with your kids using old magazines or catalogs, a bowl, and some glue. Gorgeous for Easter or Springtime.
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The simplest supplies usually make the most fun projects when kids are involved, and in this case, one of the quickest. These paper bag bird...
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Handmade paper nest, with moss and a twig frame.
