Our Valentine Project - Pink Flamingos

Lefty saw these cute little flamingo valentines in a magazine and he wanted to make them for his class. We made some modifications to the original instructions and we also added some candy.

First we gathered our supplies (to make one flamingo you will need the following):
*glue (we used Elmer's school glue)
*scissors
*1/2 of 1 pink pipe cleaners for the head and neck (the puffy stem kind... I can't remember what the package called them)
*pink card stock
*1 pipe cleaner for the legs (we wanted to use pink but the store was out so we did black)
*2-3 pink feathers (we bought a large bag of pink ones for about $2)
*small googly eye
*black marker
*glue dot or double sided tape (to attach the candy)
*1 piece of heart shaped chocolate candy (ours are Nestle Crunch and Butterfingers)


Then we all started crafting together. The kids did well making these, they are fairly easy but the dry time was the hardest on them.

Here is Lady Bug sketching out her design (hee hee... we already knew what we were going to do but she said she wanted an example to follow!)

First cut out 2 hearts from the pink cardstock for the body of the flamingo. I drew one on a piece of cardboard (a piece of a cereal box actually) and then we traced it onto the cardstock.

Secondly, cut one pink fuzzy pipe cleaner in two. Shape one half into an "S" shape for the head and neck (the other half will be used for another flamingo).

Glue the "S" shape onto the left side of the heart.

Now cut one black pipe cleaner in half and glue both those onto the bottom of the heart and bend to make legs. **NOTE: I tried bending them before gluing them on, but I inevitably needed to reshape them after they were glued.












Glue a couple pink feathers to the right side of the heart .

Then, glue the 2nd pink heart on top of the 1st heart.

Using scraps of cardstock cut a beak shape. None of our beaks were the same shape or size but ultimately they looked good. I folded the paper and cut a beak shape, I felt like the fold helped hold the beak onto the pipe cleaner a little bit better.

Using the black marker color in the end of the beak and glue it to the end of the flamingo's head. Also you will need to glue on your googly eye - you can do it at this point or at the end. Either way, we did it both ways!

At this point we let everything dry and in some cases had to stick a book on top so that the paper wouldn't curl.

After everything had dried, we wrote our Valentine message, leaving room to attach a piece of candy. We wrote "Happy Valentine's Day!" on the front and then did the "To" and "From" on the backside.

I used a glue dot to attach a piece of heart shaped chocolate candy to the front and they seemed to hold up pretty well.

I am linking up to A Soft Place To Land for DIY Day!