A project from some time ago that I thought people might like to try at home – all you need is a cardboard box and a kebab stick!

Cut out the cardboard to make a bird or animal of your choice- just make sure that the corrugations in the card run vertically up the body of your creature as this makes it easier to insert the kebab stick later! You can paint your animal – we used acrylics and poster paints- or what about collage with old magazines or wrapping paper?

If you let one side dry then turn over and paint the other you can stand your creatures up in the window to entertain you and passers by 😊. The birds are fixed into toy blocks but you could stand them in a jar or vase, weighted with glass pebbles, or use some of that stockpiled flour to make a salt dough base!

We then used ‘gaffer’ tape to fix garden canes to the back of the finished animals and lashed them to the fence on the least windy side – also facing our littlest neighbours 🙂 

Hopefully they’ll stay in place  whilst the weather is fine – think we’ve got a week before rain hits the North East – by which time I’ll have come up with another crafty project!