Bird Sculpture

This lesson will give you some construction experience. I have instructions on how to make the birds, but really you can create anything by changing the shape of the body, just using the same concepts and techniques.

Materials:

Clay

Scrap Paper or Newspaper or Plastic bags

masking tape

elmer's glue

5 pipe cleaners

Decorations

Eyes

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Instructions:

Step 1: Mold your beak from clay. Include a spot in the back with a hole in it to attach to the body of your bird. If you are sculpting a different animal you may not need to mold anything.

This will need to dry at least 24 hours before you can continue working with it.

Step 2: Shape the body with paper wads or plastic bags, tape to secure.

Step 3: Attach the head to the body using a pipe cleaner, unwrap a cotton ball and re-wrap it around the pipe-cleaner connecting the beak to the body to create the head.

Jill Moore's Instructional Art Studio

Bird Sculpture

This lesson will give you some construction experience. I have instructions on how to make the birds, but really you can create anything by changing the shape of the body, just using the same concepts and techniques.

Materials:

Clay

Scrap Paper or Newspaper or Plastic bags

masking tape

elmer's glue

5 pipe cleaners

Decorations

Eyes

Instructions:

Step 1: Mold your beak from clay. Include a spot in the back with a hole in it to attach to the body of your bird. If you are sculpting a different animal you may not need to mold anything.

This will need to dry at least 24 hours before you can continue working with it.

Step 2: Shape the body with paper wads or plastic bags, tape to secure.

Step 3: Attach the head to the body using a pipe cleaner, unwrap a cotton ball and re-wrap it around the pipe-cleaner connecting the beak to the body to create the head.

Step 4: Form your two feet, each with twisting two pipe-cleaners together.

Step 5: Attach the feet to the body of your bird so that your bird with stand or prop up.

Step 6 Wrap your bird in strips of fabric to conceal any of the paper, tape, or pipe cleaners.

Step 7: Dress the bird! Use anything you find that would make some good clothes for your bird! No naked birds!

Jill Moore's Instructional Art Studio

Bird Sculpture

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This lesson will give you some construction experience. I have instructions on how to make the birds, but really you can create anything by changing the shape of the body, just using the same concepts and techniques.

​

Materials:

Clay

Scrap Paper or Newspaper or Plastic bags

masking tape

elmer's glue

5 pipe cleaners

Decorations

Eyes

Instructions:

Step 1: Mold your beak from clay. Include a spot in the back with a hole in it to attach to the body of your bird. If you are sculpting a different animal you may not need to mold anything.

​

This will need to dry at least 24 hours before you can continue working with it.

Step 2: Shape the body with paper wads or plastic bags, tape to secure.

​

Step 3: Attach the head to the body using a pipe cleaner, unwrap a cotton ball and re-wrap it around the pipe-cleaner connecting the beak to the body to create the head.

Step 4: Form your two feet, each with twisting two pipe-cleaners together.

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Step 5: Attach the feet to the body of your bird so that your bird with stand or prop up.

Step 6 Wrap your bird in strips of fabric to conceal any of the paper, tape, or pipe cleaners.

Step 7: Dress the bird! Use anything you find that would make some good clothes for your bird! No naked birds!