$7 - $10 (based on 2014 prices)
Makes six birds
Black crows are everywhere during the Halloween season – clustered on the shelves of stores or perched menacingly in the naked trees. Although not nearly as frightening as their real-life counterparts, those store-bought fowl hold tremendous potential. With just a few extra feathers and some glue, you can transform their pristine plumage into a chaotic tuff, making them worthy of stalking any unkempt graveyard.
- Six decorative birds
- One 0.49 oz. bag of black feathers
- One 4 oz. bottle of all-purpose tacky glue*
- One pair of scissors
1. Give the birds extra bulk by gluing additional feathers along their backs and tails. Although these areas are already covered in most store-bought versions, this coverage tends to be rather sparse. Hence, you want to use the extra feathers to give the bodies a fuller appearance and increase the wingspans for a menacing look.
2. Fray the ends of the remaining feathers and adhere them to the breasts and bellies of the birds. Because of the area’s curved shape, it helps to apply the glue along the feathers’ shafts and press them against the body for a few minutes. You may need to build up several layers of feathers, depending on how broad you want the breasts to appear.
3. Use scissors to prune the extra plumage. You can leave the frayed feathers along the breasts alone – giving the creatures a truly tousled appearance – or trim them – creating cleaner, but more robust birds.
*You will not use the entire bottle’s content for this project.
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