Do you save your wine corks? I do! I always look at them as a memory that I shared with friends or family. I always knew that my saved wine corks would go toward a fun craft or project, but I never thought that I’d be making cute little forest animals with them. That is until I saw the idea in a magazine I discovered at our library.
I mean, really…how cute are these little guys?! My kids are loving these and we have plans to make more cute little animals. Why didn’t I think of this, before?
And, they’re really simple to make. Let me show you how:
You’ll need:
- wine corks
- warm glue gun and glue sticks
- black beads of various sizes
- felt, white, light brown, and oatmeal
- brown buttons for the owl eyes
- stiff white rope or something similar like floss for the bunny whiskers
Fox:
- you’ll want to cut a piece of felt that will fit snuggly around your cork, and stick up a little at the top for long pointy ears
- Cut a tail in a tear shape
- Cut the white pieces like shown above, starting with the top white piece:
– a white upside down trapezoid, for the foxes face mask
– a white triangle for the snout
– and a white piece that matches the point of the tail but has a jagged top - You’ll need to black beads for the eyes and a smaller one for the nose
Bunny:
- cut a white piece of felt that will fit snuggly around your cork, and this time will be the same length, as well
- cut little bunny ears with white felt
- cut whiskers from your rope (about an inch long) – I forgot to include them in my picture 🙁
- you’ll need 2 black beads for the eyes
Owl:
- This is like the fox, in that you’ll have a longer piece of felt. Cut the white felt to fit snug around your cork, but extends taller
- Make little hearts out of the oatmeal felt that are long for wings
- Use the brown felt to cut out a triangle beak
- Grab your buttons for the eyes
Fox:
- Glue the brown felt around the cork
- Make a wide V in the front of the extended felt to make a space between the ears. Continue to make the ears by cutting the other side of the point and trimming the back so it’s level with the cork
- Glue the white piece of felt that you cut out for the tail onto the brown tail
- Assemble the rest like the image above
Bunny:
- Glue the bunny ears to the top of your cork
- Wrap the white felt around the cork and glue
- Add beads and whiskers
Owl
- Glue the white felt around the cork
- Pinch the top of the felt together and cut a V right down the middle
- Glue the front and back of your felt that’s left to make the ears
- Glue the hears onto the owl with the pointed in glued down and heart pointing down for windgs
- Glue the buttons and beak onto your owl
