Foil and Batting Little Birdie Sculpture

Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: 1

Supplies:

• aluminum foil
• batting or cotton
• acrylic paint
• square paper clip
• floral stems
• black beads for eyes
• two feathers
• paint brush
• glue

Steps:

1. Crumple a piece of aluminum foil, estimating the size of bird you want to make. (This is just a guess.) Shape into a bird shape with head, body, and upturned end of bird's body.

 

 
2. Wrap quilt batting around the foil sculpture and glue as you go. This is the step where I painted dabs of paint to give the bird some color (unless you want a white bird.)

 
3. Next, I made a beak using a gold square paper clip, cutting it into a triangular shape and inserting the ends and glueing where the beak should be on the head. Then, I glued the eyes in place.

 
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4. Cutting two pieces of floral stems, I made the feet and painted them a gold color. These I inserted and glued to the bottom of the bird's body. This was an original idea I came up with after thinking what I might have that looked like birds feet!

 

 
5. Because I had pink feathers, I painted mine blue and let them dry. Then, I glued them to the sides of the bird's body.

 

Robyn

August 31, 20200 found this helpful

This is so sweet! I might try to crochet one! Thanks for the inspiration!

---Robyn