Deer and Fawns

This bird papercraft is so easy to make and you can adjust it to make particular birds or let your imagination run wild to create your own unique bird.  What would need -Cardboard -Paper -String -Glue -Desired medium to decorate with -Small hole punch (or something pointy to create a hole - I used one of my craft tools) How to make it First draw out a bird body on the cardboard. It doesn’t need to be perfect, the only part you want to rule straight is the back so the wings sit right on it when attached. Optional to you but I cut out tails separately and glued them on before decoration so the bird body was the same for them all. Once you’re happy with your bird body, cut it out and trace it on the cardboard for multiple birds. I added a crest onto the cockatoo one before cutting it out. For the wings, fold a piece of paper in half and draw your wing shape, cut it out and open - there’s your wing! Just trace that on more paper and cut out for multiple birds. Remember it doesn’t have ...

Gratitude is a powerful tool that helps bring a sense of appreciation for what we have in a world that conspires to make people feel like they never have enough. It’s an important lesson for us all and a focal point in discovering inner peace and leading a happy life.  There’s many ways we can express gratitude and we have tried a few different methods. This one is an idea that came to me some months ago and over the last two days I’ve worked on it with happy results.  When I was a child I was taught a game called ‘boxes’, I believe it may have a different name to others also. I’ve recently heard it called “Paddocks”.  It’s a grid game usually on paper where each player would have a different colour marker and draw a line each until someone could complete a box, then they would write their initial within the box to score 1 point and have another go until no boxes could be completed and then it would be the next persons turn. This would continue until there were no more bo...