Pine Cone Squirrel
Find a pine cone in your backyard and make a Pine Cone Squirrel with pipe cleaners and pom-poms. You can even make a nut from a wooden bead for your squirrel to hold.
Materials
- pine cone
- 1-inch pom-pom and 5mm pom-pom
- bumpy pipe cleaner and regular pipe cleaner
- wooden bead
- glue (craft glue, hot glue gun, or glue stick would all work)
- scissors or wire cutters
Directions
- Glue the 1-inch pom-pom on the pointy end of the pine cone
- Use the glue to attach wiggle eyes and the 5mm pom-pom (nose) onto the head (1-inch pom-pom)
- Cut two pieces of 1-inch pipe cleaner and fold them in half to form a ‘V’ shape
- Glue each inverted ‘V’ onto the top of the squirrel’s head for ears
- For the tail, cut off 2 bumps from the bumpy pipe cleaners and fold them in half and twist them together
- Glue the twisted end of the bumps to the back of the pine cone (bend the top of the tail down to give it shape)
- For the squirrels feet, cut two pieces of 2-inch pipe cleaner and fold each piece in half and glue to the bottom, front of pine cone
- For the squirrel’s arms, cut two more pieces of 2-inch long pipe cleaner and glue one to each side of the pine cone body
- Glue a small piece of pipe cleaner on top of a wooden bead and glue to squirrel’s hands to look like an acorn