Start by drawing the outline of your bird’s body on your cardboard and cut it out.

Cut little slits all around your bird’s body.

Insert the end of one of your yarn colors into a slit. Thread it through so that the yarn is secure and start wrapping it around your bird’s body.

Do the same thing with another color of yarn. Use each color for as much of the bird’s body as you would like.

Continue wrapping your yarn to form sections.

When switching colors, cut the thread and insert the loose end underneath the wrapped yarn (use tape if necessary).

Keep wrapping your bird, switching colors as you go.

Continue going until your bird is fully wrapped.

Draw a beak and a wing onto cardstock and cut them out.

Glue on the beak and wing.

Make sure that your googly eye, wing, and beak are securely attached.

Cut some wooden sticks for legs into your preferred length and glue them onto the back of your bird’s body. Glue a larger stick branch horizontally underneath the legs so that it looks like the bird is standing on a tree branch.

We are all finished! Now you have an adorable yarn bird to display wherever you would like!