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Squawking Crow Paper Craft


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Squawking Crow Paper Craft - finished crowI find crows fascinating, so I wanted to make a small paper model of one. All you need is construction paper, scissors, and glue. It's made of beautiful curls and casts beautiful shadows.

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Total Time: 45 minutes

Yield: 1 crow

Supplies:

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - supplies
 

Steps:

  1. Turn your paper sideways and use your ruler to mark at every inch.
  2. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - mark inch increments along the side of the paper
     
  3. Cut into 1 inch wide strips.
  4. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - cut into strips
     
  5. To make the crow's body, curl one strip of paper into itself. The curl should be about 1 inch wide.
  6. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - curl one of the strips
     
  7. Dab a bit of glue to the top of the end of the strip.
  8. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - add glue to the top of the end of the strip
     
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  9. Hold curl down into place for 15 seconds.
  10. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - hold in place to set
     
  11. Add a bit of glue to the end of another strip.
  12. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - add glue to the end of another strip
     
  13. Tuck it right under the edge of the curl, glue facing down onto the paper below.
  14. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - tuck it under the first curl glue side down
     
  15. Wrap it over the first curl, leaving some space between them. Glue into place under, as well.
  16. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - loosely wrap around the first curl and glue
     
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  17. Do the same with a 3rd strip.
  18. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - repeat with the third strip
     
  19. Now trim the crow's tail so the top strip is short, 2nd is medium length, and 3rd is longest.
  20. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - trim the three strips to create the tail
     
  21. Use your finger to curl the tail segments upwards.
  22. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - curl tail segments upwards with your finger
     
  23. To make the crow's head, cut out a small rectangle of paper.
  24. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - cut a small rectangle for the head
     
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  25. Curl it up tight and glue to keep closed.
  26. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - curl and glue
     
  27. Glue a slightly longer strip onto it.
  28. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - glue a slightly longer strip to it
     
  29. Curl the longer strip around it. Glue into place and use pressure from your pencil to hold it closed.
  30. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - curl longer strip around it and glue in place using the pencil to apply pressure
     
  31. Glue the head onto the body. Hold in place for 30 seconds.
  32. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - glue head to the body and hold for 30 seconds to set glue
     
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  33. To make the beak, take a piece of orange paper and give it a trifold as if it were a book cover.
  34. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - fold the orange paper for the beak
     
  35. Unfold it and cut out an elongated octagon that is 1 inch wide.
  36. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - cut a 1 inch wide elongated octagon
     
  37. Fold it into a beak.
  38. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - fold into a beak shape
     
  39. Use the "spine" of the beak to attach to the crow's head.
  40. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - glue beak in place
     
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  41. To make the crow's feet, and to hold up the bird nicely in position, tightly roll a small strip of black paper. Glue right under where its tail begins.
  42. Squawking Crow Paper Craft - tightly roll a small piece of black paper for the foot glue in place
     

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