How To: Flock of Birds
I direct maintain had MANY requests to attain a "how to" postal service on my flock of
What you lot volition need:
The designing (provided below)
Scrapbook paper
Scissors
Poster putty or something else to stick the birds to the walls
Total projection takes less than an hr as well as costs less than $20!
For paper, I used K&Company Paper. It was overnice as well as heavy, double-sided as well as worked great. They offering tons of dissimilar colors as well as patterns. You tin detect it very inexpensive here.
The Pattern
OK, commencement things first, the pattern. Here it is:
Bird Mass Production
Now that you lot direct maintain the pattern, it is fourth dimension to volume attain these puppies. I took my combat newspaper as well as folded it inward one-half hence I could kill ii birds amongst i
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| Example of where to plication on the 12 x 12 paper. |
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| Look! It's a sailboat! |
Once your newspaper is folded inward half, house your designing on it as well as draw around it.
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| Now you lot encounter it... |
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| Now you lot don't... |
Now that you lot direct maintain the designing marked on your paper, brand certain that both sheets are fifty-fifty as well as cutting around the pattern.
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| Tra la la...cutting paper. |
Once you lot are finished cutting, you lot volition direct maintain ii birds. Repeat this measuring until you lot direct maintain plenty birds to fill upwards the infinite you lot are looking to fill. I used most of my pad, minus the newspaper I used for a projection inward my son's room.
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| Yay! Two birds! |
Let 'em Fly!
Now that you lot direct maintain your birds, you lot demand to plication them all to hand them a 3D effect. Simply lay them downwards apartment as well as curvature upwards each of the wings.
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| One fold... |
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| Two folds! |
Now it is fourth dimension to allow these colorful feathered friends fly. I used poster putty to stick mine to the wall, but you lot could purpose record or whatever else tickles your fancy. You tin attain them inward a flock similar I did or merely scatter them about. You could also depict a tree on your wall as well as allow them hang out inward it. Whatevs! Have fun amongst them!
Though I did this inward birds, you lot could easily attain this amongst bugs, pterodactyls, etc. To brand a perfect pattern, I genuinely drew one-half of the plane on a slice of newspaper that I had folded inward half, hence when I cut, I had ii perfectly equal sides--kind of similar making a snowflake.
If you lot direct maintain whatever questions, experience gratuitous to ask!