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Cork Lovebirds

January 29, 2018 By Kate Leave a Comment

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Make some adorable cork lovebirds for Valentines Day!

I’m pleased to announce that in order to bring you MORE fun craft ideas I’ve decided to take on some contributors. Let me introduce you to Tracey from Jumble Tree, who’s work I have often admired on Instagram. She will regularly be sharing some of her adorable crafts here with us this year, like these cute little love birds. Check them out…

Adorable cork lovebirds Valentines Day craft

These little cork lovebirds make a lovely gift. They can be turned into a keyring or a fridge magnet, and you can also customise them with a little Valentine’s message on the heart.

Make these cute and easy cork lovebirds

How to make Cork Lovebirds

You will need:

  • Cork
  • Coloured paper
  • Paint
  • Hole punch
  • Glue stick
  • Craft glue
  • Fine black felt tip or gel pen
  • Feather (optional)
  • Mini-eye pin (optional)
  • Keyring (optional)
  • Small magnet (optional)
  • Strong all-purpose glue (optional) 
 

How To:

  1. Paint the cork any colour you want. 
  2. Fold a small piece of coloured paper in half and draw half a heart on the fold. You want it to be roughly half to two thirds the length of the cork – and make it narrow too. Carefully cut around the shape and open it up. Place it on your cork to check the size, and if it looks too big, fold the heart in half again and trim until it looks right.
  3. Rub some glue stick on the back of the heart and glue it to the cork, with the point almost touching the bottom edge. Cut a strip of different coloured paper for the wings – make the shorter side about the same height as the heart. If you’re making a penguin, leave out the wing strip.
  4.  Line the edge of the strip up with one side of the heart and the base of your bird, and wrap the rest around the cork. Cut away any extra paper where it touches the other side of the heart.
  5. Rub glue stick on the top half of the strip only, and glue in place, so the bottom of the wings stick out slightly.
  6. For the eyes, use a hole punch to punch out some circles. Rub a little glue stick where you want the eyes to go on the cork, wet your finger to help pick up the little circles, and stick them in place. Use a fine black pen to dot on the centres.
  7. For the beak, cut out a small triangle from yellow or orange paper (or colour in some plain paper), rub glue stick just below the eyes, wet your finger to help pick up the triangle, and glue in place.
  8. Paint feet on the bottom edge with yellow paint and leave to dry.
  9. To add a feathery head plume, make a hole on top by screwing in a small screw, nearer to the front of your bird. Take the screw out.
  10. Choose a feather, dab a little glue on the pointy tip and push into the hole.
  11. To make it into a keyring, screw a mini eye-pin (seen in step 9) into the top of your cork and attach a keyring. Or, for a fridge magnet, glue a small magnet to the back of your bird. Use strong all-purpose glue like UHU.
How to make a cork lovebird  
 
 

About Tracey

Tracey Radford is a former journalist turned kids’ craft writer, who loves making things out of ordinary, everyday stuff that usually gets recycled or thrown away. This simple approach to encouraging creativity is at the heart of her two kids’ craft books, ‘Make Your Own Zoo’ and ‘Make Your Own Farm Animals’. Tracey lives near Hereford in the UK.
 
Tracey blogs at Jumble Tree and can also be found on Instagram and Facebook
 
 

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Find tons more Valentines Day crafts on our Be My Valentine board on Pinterest

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    I’m basically a big kid who never grew up and still loves to muck around with paint, glitter, glue and toilet rolls. With the crafts shared here on this website I’m hoping to give other parents and carers inspiration to get crafty with their kids at home – make our projects, or use them as a source of inspiration to spark ideas of your own. When it comes to crafting no rules apply!

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