Rinse out an empty plastic gallon milk jug with lid. Cut a window in the front of the jug, and make two small poke holes for the perches. Insert pencils for perches and fill the bottom of the jug with bird seed.

1. Cut the straw up into 3/4″ - 1 ” lengths.
2. Glue a straw cut to the right length behind each fun foam shape you will be using.
3. String the shapes and straw pieces on to a piece of string or plastic lace and tie the ends together when you are finished.

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.

Take regular paper plates (I glued 2 together) and cut out the center circle so you have a ring. Glue miscellaneous materials onto the ring, such as cupcake papers, crepe paper, pom poms, ribbons, feathers, or anything you can think of. Punch a hole on each side and tie a ribbon through the hole so the hat can be tied under the chin. We used the cupcake papers, crepe paper, raffia, ribbon, pom poms and they are just adorable! The kids had a blast making them, too.

1. Paint the top of the paper plate blue. Paint the outside of the toilet paper tube blue. Let this dry!
2. Glue the tube upright in the center of the plate. Glue the bottom of the bowl to the top of the tube to make a bird feeder.
3. Cut the two fingers next to the thumb out of the gloves, leaving them attached at the base of each finger.
4. Cut two finger-sized holes in the side of the bowl of the feeder. Put the glove fingers on your fingers and push them through the holes in the bowl. These will be the birds!
5. Cut a beak for each bird from orange felt. Glue the beaks on each bird, making sure the beak is facing the feeder.
6. Cut eyes and wings from the blue felt for each bird and glue in place.
7. Glue the blue feathers to the back of the birds, forming their tails.
8. Rub the bottom of the bowl with some glue and sprinkle birdseed to let dry.

Take the plastic scoop from laundry detergent (wash it ) and glue on each side towards the handle the plastic lid off a gallon milk jug. It makes a little wheelbarrow. I hope I spelled that right. Next add potting soil and let the kids plant seeds in it. I always plant either grass seeds or beans because they grow so fast.

Cut tissue paper into squares. Cut or draw stem and leaves for the flower. Take tissue squares and scrunch up. Glue the tissue paper to form a flower.

Let your kids paint clay pots and then put plants in them. I used tempera paint and then we sprayed them with a clear varnish. The next day we took a trip to the nursery and I let my daughter pick out plants to put in her pot. She now feels like she has been part of landscaping the yard.

Give each child a piece of construction paper. Have the children fold the paper in half lengthwise and then open it again. Fold the top corners into the center. Fold the bottom corner over. Fold the other bottom corner over, and tuck it under the excess edge. Glue the Flaps down. Then glue two streamers on as a tail. Put a piece of clear tape on the top point of the kite then use the hole punch to punch a hole through the tape. Tie a piece of 2 foot yarn through the hole.

1. Make 2 caterpillars by gluing 2 lines of 6 pom-poms (that would be using all the green pom-poms) to the front of the bag. You can place them in any direction that you like. You create the scene.
2. Cut one black chenille stem in half and fold each piece in half. Glue a piece to the top of each caterpillar’s head for antennas. Glue a 3/4 inch yellow pom-pom on the tip of each antenna.
3. Cut 10 pieces of chenille stem each about 1 inch long. Fold each piece in half and glue to the bottom of each green pom-pom for legs.
4. Glue on the eyes and glue on a red pom-pom for a nose.
5. Draw a path for the caterpillars on the bag with the brown fabric marker.
6. Glue the large yellow pom-pom on the top right hand corner of the bag for the sun. Draw on sunrays with the yellow fabric marker.