Whoooo dat?
My childhood girlfriend and I try to find time to get the girls together and do a mommy daughter craft day every couple of months. This time around, we wanted to do something Fall-y. Of course, we turned to Pinterest to get the ideas going, and my mom found a cute Owl craft we couldn't NOT make!
The mommies were nice enough to plan out the craft and provide the material, so all the daughters had to do was show up- lucky us!
I thought I'd share with you our crafting process- it was pretty easy and they all ended up being super cute!!
All you need is some burlap, fabric, buttons (optional), ribbon, fiber fill, and metal wire.
We started by using the cardboard template my mom cut out of a owl to cut two pieces of burlap:
I measured in about an inch along the edge of the template and made a smaller stencil out of butcher paper to cut out our fabric.
One neat thing about this craft was that we all chose very different themes for our owls. Mine (far right) had fabric that could work for fall or spring, my sister's (middle) was specifically Halloween, and Stacey's (far left) was made to fit into her Kindergarten classroom.
We glued down the fabric using hot glue. Tip- apply the hot glue to the fabric's outline, then stick it onto the burlap. We also used a disposable cookie tray whenever we were gluing in case the hot glue oozed through the holes in the burlap.
Next we worked on the owls' faces. We used different colored fabric to cut out a triangle for the beak, and layered burlap, fabric, and buttons to make the eyes.
I liked the constrast between the yellow buttons and the brown felt. It really made the eyes POP! If you don't have a collection of buttons like apparently most moms seem to have, try layering different color fabric or burlap to get the same effect.
After the faces were complete, it was time to give the owls bodies. We hot glued the top piece of burlap to the second (back) piece starting up by the ears and head. To keep the glue from drying on us, we did little sections at a time.
We left a section of about 6 inches unglued at the bottom, so that we could then use fiber fill to stuff our birds. You don't want to go crazy with the filling, just enough to bring your owl to life. You may need a ruler or something else to poke the stuffing up into the ears and head.
Once it was stuffed, we glued the bottom opening together. We did notice that it looked nicer if we went around our decorative fabric and added some hot glue to spots that were puckering up a bit. We then added our feet- most of us used the same fabric we made our beaks out of earlier.
The final additions were the wire hangers and ribbon. For the wire hanger, we bent metal wire into a "U" and then poked each end through the front of our owls' heads. Once the wire was in the back where you couldn't see it, we used pliers to bend the wire so that it wouldn't slip back through the burlap. For the ribbons use as much as you want! It's definitely easier to use ribbon with wire if you want a real bow-tie, otherwise we thought it looked just as fun having some draping ribbon.
I will say that us younger women have never been very good working with ribbon and ended up handing ours over to our moms. We'll never grow out of needing our Mommies!!! (Left: my mom doing my ribbon for me- she loves me!)
My owl!! Isn't she cute?
So there you have it! You can make your very own decorative owl hanger-no problem! Enjoy and happy crafting!
