Textured Owl Craft

After reading Whoo-oo Is It? by Megan McDonald, our youngest wanted to "make an owl."

I thought it might be a good opportunity to use up some of our miscellaneous craft supplies and devised this craft for him to do.

Supplies

cardboard (we used the back of an empty 8x11 paper pad)

blue tissue paper

tan thin foam

triangular piece of brown thin foam (for beak)

feathers

two stones

brown rice

orange cording

glue (white and tacky)

foam brush

Method

1.  rip blue tissue paper up into smaller sized shapes (our son loved this part)

2.  spread glue over cardboard with foam brush

3.  place blue tissue papers in collage form all over cardboard

4.  coat the top of tissue paper with more glue

5.  allow to dry

6.  draw (grown-up) and cut out an owl shape from the tan thin foam sheet

7.  affix with glue to blue background

8.  glue rocks as eyes and triangle as beak

9.  coat face of owl with glue

10.  spoon rice onto face

11.  squeeze a line of glue around the face and affix orange cording around face

12.  using tacky glue attach feathers

13.  using white glue coat rest of owl body and spoon rice over glue

14.  pat rice down, then shake off excess

15.  allow to dry

Inspiration art work found within our read aloud.

Linked to: Read Explore Learn;  NOBH; stART; Show and Tell; and Kids Get Crafty