Daily Discovery: Storytime in the Home – What’s This Tail Saying? Peacock Craft

Follow along with FCMoD’s live stream Storytime in the Home: What’s this Tail Saying? Then create your very own beautiful peacock with a stunning tail of feathers.

Supplies:

• 2 sheets of green construction paper
• 1 sheet of blue construction paper
• 1 small triangle of orange construction paper
• Glue (glue stick and craft glue will be helpful)
• Tape
• Googly eyes or some black craft paper to cut out eyes
• A small cardboard tube
• Crayons
• Optional: pencil, 1 blue pipe cleaner.

Instructions:

1. Place all your supplies on a clear surface with plenty of room to create.
2. Glue together the short ends of the two sheets of green construction paper making a longer piece of green paper and then decorate with crayons! Peacocks generally have green, blue, orange, teal, and yellow in their feathers. But you can be creative!
3. Fold the entire long green paper accordion style (along the short end). Then tape the bottom together creating a point. It should look like a fan when you are done.
4. Measure the size of the paper towel tube on the blue paper making sure the paper will wrap all the way around it. Use a pencil to trace it if that helps you. Then add a little bump around the middle top of the tube to make your peacocks head and cut the whole thing out.
5. Wrap the tube in the blue paper and glue it down.
6. Glue the small orange triangle beak and eyes onto your peacock’s head.
7. Cut the optional pipe cleaner head feathers, curl them to create a feather shape, and then tape them to the inside of the cardboard tube.
8. Glue the tube with the head facing out to the center of your accordion folded feathers.

BONUS: Here are some activities including a mix & match that relate to What’s This Tail Saying? Here are some coloring pages!