You will need:

● Potatoes
● Knife
● Tempera Paint
● Paper
● Small Paintbrush
● Small Piece of Cardboard

 

 

 

1. Use cardboard dipped in brown paint to make several branches or small tree.

2. Cut potato in half so that there is a large half circle for the body and smaller half circle for the wings.

3. Dip larger half circle potato in red paint printing several “bodies” on paper.

4. Make a head with a thumb print and a tail by slightly twisting a paint-dipped piece of cardboard on the opposite end.

5. Paint a small yellow beak and legs and add a small dot of paint for an eye.

6. Use the smaller half potato piece to print a wing on top of the body or two overlapping wings for a flying bird.