The Mom I Want to Be

 

Here’s a super-simple way to assemble a flock of featherless friends. This nearly no-mess project is easy enough to make in minutes and lets kids add lots of inspired elements of their own.

 

 

Scrapbook paper

Scissors

Pencil

Colored paper clips

Tape

Glue stick

Hole punch or pushpins

 

For each, draw a bird figure on a piece of scrapbook paper (or download our template). Cut out this figure, trace it, and cut out the matching shape. Bend a colored paper clip or two into feet and tape them to the back side of one figure. Use a glue stick to join the two matching figures, sandwiching the paper clip legs between them. Make an eye with a hole punch or pushpin and adjust the legs so that the bird can stand on its own.

 

You could also attach clothesline and hang them from the ceiling as a makeshift mobile.