Trace your hand (or your child’s hand) on the paper. Arrange all your colored paper beneath this hand.

Start cutting the traced hand. When you are done, you should have six colored hands.

Draw your parrot’s body, using a circle for the head, a larger oval underneath for the body, and a triangular tale on the bottom.

Cut your parrot out.

Draw a round cheek for your parrot and cut it out.

Draw your parrot’s beak and cut it out.

Gather all your parrot’s features. It’s time to put everything together.

Take one colorful handprint and glue it to the bottom of the parrot’s tail, with fingers facing downward. Grab another handprint and glue it a little bit above the first one.

Keep gluing until only one handprint remains.

Add the last handprint feather as your parrot’s wing. It should be placed above the rest of the handprint cut-outs.

Draw a funny-shaped feather, cut it out, and glue it to the back of your parrot’s head.

Attach your beak, eye, and cheek to the head. Add a googly eye or draw one on.