- This easy craft requires a raw egg, blue paint, blue tissue paper and fishing line. Blow out the egg so that it will be empty. Do this by poking a tiny hole with a needle in both ends of the egg and using a straw to blow the inside of the egg out through the other end into a bowl. Let the egg dry before moving on---wash hands well after this step. Paint the egg blue with tempera or other water-based paint. One end will be the bird's face, where you should put two black dots of paint or paper for eyed and a tiny yellow triangle for a beak. Cut wings and a tail from blue tissue, and fold or crumple it to give a fluttery look. Finally, thread fishing line through both the holes in the egg and hang it upright so it looks as though your bluebird of happiness is flying.
- There's hardly anything to this easy craft; you may even want to make multiple bluebirds to hang from a mobile or string on a garland. A printable template for the bird's body can be found in the "Resources" section, or you can draw your own bluebird body. Trace or draw a bluebird body shape, about 5 or 6 inches long, with a curved belly and dove-like head, but no wings. Do this on blue construction paper, lighter blue printer paper, or patterned blue scrapbooking paper, as you desire. Cut the bird body out, and cut a slit in it, about a 1/2 inch down from the top and about an inch and a half long. Add an eye of black marker or glue on a wiggly eye if you like. Cut a square of blue tissue paper, about 4 inches on a side, and fold it accordion-style into an inch-wide fan. Insert this through the slit in the bird's back, and slide it halfway so the same amount of tissue is on both sides of the bird. Pull up the top fold on each side of the bluebird and tape or staple them together at the top, making a wing-like tissue fan. Attach a string to the top of the wings to hang it.
- This adorable bluebird craft is easy enough for any age and is quick to make as well. You will need blue pipe cleaners and craft pompoms, small wiggly eyes and a bit of orange or yellow pipe cleaner for a beak, plus plenty of hot glue to put it together. Make a pipe cleaner body by taking a whole blue pipe cleaner and wrapping it tightly around your finger, so that it tapers in a coil. Glue a head-sized blue pompom on the narrow end of the coil, and add two wiggly eyes, To make the wings, take about 4 inches of another blue pipe cleaner and curl the ends into a letter B type shape, with a space between the two curls wide enough to fit the pipe cleaner body in. Glue the wings on the back of the bluebird, or just slip the straight part of the wings through the body coil and it should stay. Snip a tiny piece of blue pipe cleaner and glue it on top of the head in a V shape to be a tuft of feathers on your bluebird of happiness' head, and cut another small V from orange or yellow pipe cleaner to glue on the front as its beak.
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