Decorating your house or your room is always heavy on your parents’ pockets, try not to burden them for something unnecessary when you can bring colours and amazing decorative crafts into your room yourself!

Today’s craft is also a decorative one; a paper flamingo which can stand anywhere you want. In my room, it stands on my study table.

Things you need:

1. One sheet of pink-coloured crape paper (any shade of pink)

2. Two sticks (you can reuse barbecue skewers)

3. White glue or hot glue

4. Pink glitter sticker sheet

5. A piece of black glitter sheet (you can use plain colours with no glitters)

6. Scissors

7. Pencil

8. A two-inch piece of hardboard

9. One white paper

10. Yarn string or wire

Directions:

1. Draw a head and body of a flamingo on the white paper and cut it out (this is the template for cutting the same out from the pink glitter sheet; you can take help in this part from an elder; pictures 2 and 3.

2. Cut out the beak and a tiny circle for the eye from the black glitter sheet and paste on the respective places, then put it aside; picture 4.

3. Flatten the crape paper, you will need four sets of four pieces of crape paper (eight-inches-long and four inches wide), picture 5.

4. You will have to accordion fold each set and tie from the middle with a string or wire, pictures 6 and 7.

5. Open each fold, picture 8.

6. You have four crape paper flowers, tie them together and trim the uneven edges from all sides, picture 10.

7. The crape paper pompom is ready; glue it on the body of the flamingo, picture 11.

8. It’s time to paste the stickers as legs, you can either colour them black or paste black sticker on to them; to give it a natural look. Bend in a triangle shape, see picture 12.

9. Cut hardboard piece in round or oval shape and paste the legs with hot glue on it, picture 13.

Published in Dawn, Young World, June 29th, 2019