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Flying Dove Paper Craft

Thanks to Lucinda for sending in this idea and template.

OPTIONAL:  Make a number of these birds and hang them on criss-crossed straws to make a mobile.
  

flying dove craft

Materials:

  • small square of tissue paper, 
  • a printer, 
  • glue, 
  • scissors, 
  • something to colour with 
  • a piece of paper 
  • OPTIONAL:  wiggly eyes

Instructions:

  • Print out the template. 
     
  • Colour the bird and cut it out.  Color the bird blue (bluebird), red (cardinal), yellow (canary) etc to create a whole flock of different kinds of birds
     
  • Glue on a wiggly eye or color in the eye.
     
  • Fold a square of tissue paper, accordion style
     
  • Slip into the slit to make the wings.
     
  • Hang up from the roof.
      
  • Close the template window after printing to return to this screen. 
       
  • Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers). 

B&W Template only

 

  

Printable version of these instructions