Materials

• Tracing paper
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Decorative paper
• Cream card stock
• Glue stick
• Decorative-edge scissors
• Rickrack
• Hot-glue gun
• Flower and round punches
• Small branches
• Cream-color acrylic paint
• Paintbrush
• Vase
• Unpopped popcorn seeds

1. Download and print the patterns. Trace the patterns, cut out. Use the patterns to cut bird bodies, wings, and leaves from decorative paper. Each bird requires two bodies and two wings.
2. To make a bird, glue one body and both wings to cream card stock. Trim around the shapes using decorative-edge scissors. Glue the remaining body to the uncovered side of the body cutout. Use rickrack to create a hanger; hot-glue rickrack ends bird. Use a glue stick to attach wings to bird body, aligning wing tips and covering the rickrack ends.
3. Make leaves in the same manner as the bird bodies.
4. Paint branches; let dry. Fill the vase halfway with unpopped popcorn and arrange the branches in the vase.
5. Hang the birds on the tree. Hot-glue the leaves to the branches.

Download the free bird and leaf patterns.