Squawking Crow Paper Craft

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Squawking Crow Paper Craft - finished crow I 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.

Total Time: 45 minutes

Yield: 1 crow

Supplies:

black construction paper
ruler
pencil
scissors
glue
orange construction paper

Steps:

Turn your paper sideways and use your ruler to mark at every inch.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - mark inch increments along the side of the paper

Cut into 1 inch wide strips.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - cut into strips

To make the crow's body, curl one strip of paper into itself. The curl should be about 1 inch wide.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - curl one of the strips

Dab a bit of glue to the top of the end of the strip.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - add glue to the top of the end of the strip

Hold curl down into place for 15 seconds.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - hold in place to set

Add a bit of glue to the end of another strip.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - add glue to the end of another strip

Tuck it right under the edge of the curl, glue facing down onto the paper below.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - tuck it under the first curl glue side down

Wrap it over the first curl, leaving some space between them. Glue into place under, as well.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - loosely wrap around the first curl and glue

Do the same with a 3rd strip.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - repeat with the third strip

Now trim the crow's tail so the top strip is short, 2nd is medium length, and 3rd is longest.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - trim the three strips to create the tail

Use your finger to curl the tail segments upwards.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - curl tail segments upwards with your finger

To make the crow's head, cut out a small rectangle of paper.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - cut a small rectangle for the head

Curl it up tight and glue to keep closed.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - curl and glue

Glue a slightly longer strip onto it.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - glue a slightly longer strip to it

Curl the longer strip around it. Glue into place and use pressure from your pencil to hold it closed.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - curl longer strip around it and glue in place using the pencil to apply pressure

Glue the head onto the body. Hold in place for 30 seconds.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - glue head to the body and hold for 30 seconds to set glue

To make the beak, take a piece of orange paper and give it a trifold as if it were a book cover.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - fold the orange paper for the beak

Unfold it and cut out an elongated octagon that is 1 inch wide.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - cut a 1 inch wide elongated octagon

Fold it into a beak.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - fold into a beak shape

Use the "spine" of the beak to attach to the crow's head.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - glue beak in place

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.

Squawking Crow Paper Craft - tightly roll a small piece of black paper for the foot glue in place

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