How to Make a Bird Seed Canister using Elmer's Glue

our first project is a recycling project and we're going to cover an old chip canister with a wonderful wood-look paper and then a green kind of topiary on top of it. The supplies that we're going to need are your canister that is recycled we need a styrofoam ball we need some paper so that we can color will be needing some uh... watercolor pencils we've got clay and this is the oven baked clay will also need a rolling tool for our clay some glue stick and tacky glue scissors a permanent pen and again some more clay tools that we can work with let's go ahead and get started we're going to start by designing our wood design for our canister and i've already pre cut the paper so that it's going to wrapped around nicely and give me a little bit extra room to glue down so I'm going to draw my design on it and i just want this to look like wood so you can be pretty random and make it kinda curvy you can do some knots in the wood like this just some fun lines that we can then go back and fill in and color just keep going a couple more knots in the wood it might be fun to go and research some trees that are in your neighborhood and see what the bark looks like and you could design the bark so that it looks like something local once you've got that done, go ahead we can take our crayons use some browns and even a little bit of black i'm going to color in with these pencils so now again it might be fun to do a little bit of research and look and see what's local so that you can match the colors color that in and the more pressure that you put on these crayons the more vibrant color that you're going to get you can also shade by using the side of the pencil do some really detailed work on here the pencils lead because their soft will give you different effects depending again if i'm holding it straight up and down or if it's on its side have a little look at this one and I finished coloring this one all in and so now we're ready to glue it onto the canister this glue will hold it in place this glue dries clear so if i'm a little bit messy it's not going to matter just a nice coat all the way across the paper then we'll take the lid of it roll that into place just like that after you've got this in place you'll want to set it aside to dry if you need to go back after and add little bit more glue that's okay too Here we go, set that aside its all done and the next thing we're going to do is work on our decorative top I'm going to take my styrofoam ball and this top is going to be glued onto the lid of the cannister so the first thing we need to do is cut using a plastic knife to take a little bit of the ball off this will give us a nice flat edge to glue on and it'll make sure that it's staying in place nice and stable so what we're going to do now now is we're going to cover this ball with our oven baked clay and the styrofoam can go in the oven and bake with your clay so we're going to take our clay and i've already conditioned it conditioning is warming it up in your hands to make sure that it's soft and pliable going to move everything off of my work surface and you can see that i've already covered it and made sure that it's easy clean up so that i'm not preparing my clay where i'm going to prepare food later ok so we're going to roll this out if you had a pasta machine you can also use the pasta machine to do this then you get a really thin, thin sheet of it and of course the pasta machine that we would use would be dedicated to clay and you wouldn't want to use it for food afterwards keep on rolling and you want to make sure that you spread this green really thin and you'll probably need one of these larger packages so that you have enough leaves to cover the whole surface of the ball so once it's all rolled out i'd like to actually go ahead now and take scissors to cut each of my leaf shapes i'm just going to go ahead and trim leaves they can all be a little bit different because leaves are different you want quite a few of these and if you find that you get some imperfect ones them will just roll that back up into a ball again and make new ones and also after you've trimmed them you can see mine are a little bit on the side so i want to go and i'm just going to roll them a little bit thinner here we go now these are just all going to go right onto our ball you just press them firmly and the sort of grip right onto the styrofoam a little bit of overlap will make sure that they stay in place try not to overlap too much because that way you'll get a little bit better coverage all over the ball here we go now if you want to see you can even do some yellow leaves little bit of orange would look really good just like that okay so I'm going to just switch over here as i said this can go right in the oven and bake according to the manufacturer's directions and it can be right on the styrofoam as it bakes. You're going to end up with a ball that looks something like that when it's all baked the next thing we're going to do is a nice little ladybug designed to go on top of the ball so i've got again a little piece of clay that I've already conditioned by warming it up in my hands i'm just going to use my thumb to press that flat for the ladybugs body and take a little piece of black clay roll that into a ball tuck it very close up that will be it's head and add some simple dots to it again you want to work with your lighter color clay's first and that way you won't play in the darker colors into it if it's tough to your fingers a little bit lady bugs in like that and then we're going to take a pin you can poke the pin right through here through the lady bug before you bake it tuck it into the clay so that you can't see it and then you can place that onto a piece of styrofoam also bake this if you decided that you wanted to go in at a little bit more detail later after you've baked your project you can actually add more clay onto it and then bake it again and it's not going to harm your clay after the piece has baked and we've back our leaf ball you can go ahead and poke ladybug into place on the ball we can also do a little bird to go on there you get all kinds of little creatures that you could find trees may be a butterfly or a little inch worm so for the bird again i'm going to roll a ball this time i'm going to try to make a little pointed body then I'm going to push it flat I need another ball for the head we could always use different colors as well if you want to little yellow cannery maybe there's the bird little bit of a beak and again you would tuck a little pin i'm going to actually use a leaf shape for my wing so we would again tuck a little pin in this and we would place it on a piece of styrofoam like i did the ladybug bake those then glue our ball to the top of our canister you've got a great canister to store bird food or pens and pencils