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Wooden Birdhouse Cottage

Make crafts for outdoor decorations - it's an inexpensive way to make your garden shine during the summer. Create a Wooden Birdhouse Cottage from Heidi Borchers that you can hang on your porch and display all season long. It's both pretty and rustic.

Wooden Birdhouse Cottage
 

Materials:

  • Aleene’s Super Thick Tacky Glue
  • Craft sticks
  • Craft knife and ruler
  • Wire cutters
  • Toothpick
  • Wooden mini birdhouse
  • Plastic fairy
  • Acrylic paint – black, white, brown
  • Paint brush (fine tip and 1/2″ shader)
  • Sheet moss
  • Silk flowers

Instructions:

  1. Use ruler and pencil to draw straight lines from birdhouse opening to bottom. Use craft knife to score/cut along pattern lines. It is best to use a sharp craft knife for this step so that it will cleanly cut through the wood.

    Wooden Birdhouse Cottage
     
  2. If needed, use pliers to pull cut piece from birdhouse.

    Wooden Birdhouse Cottage
     
  3. Continue to pull away cut piece and do not worry if it does not come out completely clean. You will be gluing craft sticks over the cut edges.

    Wooden Birdhouse Cottage
     
  4. Using your sharp craft knife, you should be able to cut away a section that looks like this.

    Wooden Birdhouse Cottage
     
  5. For an added effect of the look of wood, I glued craft sticks to the outside of the birdhouse. Mark, measure and cut your craft sticks with wire cutters.

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  6. In this step, I have cut and glued three craft sticks to the front right. You can see how the craft sticks slightly cover the opening so if you have any rough cut edges, you can see how the craft sticks will cover them. I like to apply the Aleene’s Super Thick Tacky glue to the back of my craft sticks with a toothpick.

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  7. For the roof detail, I cut varied lengths of craft sticks and glued them to the rooftop.

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  8. To create a weathered wood look, use a fine brush to paint black along the edges of the craft sticks. Let dry. Paint with a white wash of white. I also used my Aleene’s Super Thick Tacky Glue to glue pieces of moss over sections of the roof.

    Wooden Birdhouse Cottage
     
  9. You can also glue several pieces of craft sticks together to create a “Fairy Cottage” sign. I used a black permanent marker for the lettering and I painted it with the same white wash.

    Wooden Birdhouse Cottage
     
  10. Paint rope hanger brown. For a pretty touch on your Fairy Cottage, glue silk flowers over the moss.

    Wooden Birdhouse Cottage

For a comprehensive video tutorial of this project, check out How to Make a Birdhouse Fairy Cottage.

 

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