Introduction: How to Make a Sparrow With Old Newspapers

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Old newspapers are everywhere and they can be reused to make crafts. That's why I wanted to make a sparrow with some of them along with dry flowers. So let's see how to make this cute sparrow following few easy steps and using simple supplies.

Supplies

For this craft I used supplies that I found at home which are:

  • Old newspapers.
  • Tall hay straw.
  • Glue.
  • Pencil.
  • scissors.
  • Dry flowers and branches.

Step 1: Making Newspaper Rolls

To make our craft we have first to make newspaper rolls, here is how:

  • Cut newspaper pages into rectangles varied in size.
  • Take one newspaper piece and use the hay straw to roll it.
  • Glue the rolled piece at its end.
  • Pull the hay straw out.
  • Repeat until you end up with around 25 newspaper rolls of various lengths and diameters.

Step 2: Gluing the Rolls

After you draw the sparrow on a newspaper page, begin to glue the rolls on the drawing one by one next to each other until you fill it entirely.

Step 3: Nature Touchs

After we remove the excessive parts of the page, we can add some dry flowers and branches to our sparrow:

  • Glue one small flower on the eye.
  • Glue a thin branch one side the to the bird and the other one on a thick branch and stick a flower petal on it.
  • Use some dry petals and feather eucalyptus and glue them as a wing.
  • Cut a triangle piece from a dry leaf and glue it to the beak.

Step 4: A Bird on a Branch

Now you don't have to go out to see nature and birds because you have a sparrow on a branch at home. But unfortunately it can't sing!

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