Materials:

1 - 3 1/2" picket cut to 24" long, 2 - 2" pickets or boards, small garden gloves found at craft stores, staple gun, yellow, black and white paint.

Instructions:

1. Cut the 3 1/2" picket to make it 24" long. Single pickets are very cheap and can be found at Home Base or Home Depot. Cut the top to shape the head if you would like. I used the bottom side of the picket and cut two triangles out to form the head shape. If you don't have pickets any thin board will do.

2. Draw in a face with a pencil and paint the eyes, beak, and the body.

3. Cut the two smaller pickets to measure 13" each with the pointed end being the end of the crows wings. Paint them black. When the paint is dry, staple them onto the body.

4. Fill the gloves part way up with sand to fill out the fingers. Paint the gloves to look like the crows talons. When they are dry, staple the talons onto the crow's body about 6" up from the bottom.

5. Place the crow on your fence on in your garden. I had to use two screws to keep the crow from falling off.

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