Peacock Card

Peacock Card craft for kids

What you need:

Rice paper
Scissors
Tracing paper
Pencil
White paper
Pens: one brown and red
Glue
Colored Cardstock

For batik:

old newspapers
Japanese paper
tweezers
color for batik
a fine-tipped paintbrush
irons

Steps for making your peacock:

Cover your worktop with some old newspapers. Take your Japanese paper and fold as shown in the illustration below:
Enter the range in the middle with tweezers and dipped two points one after another in the desired colors.
Take then the fine-tipped paintbrush, dip it in a third color and apply it for a moment in the middle of your range, which remains white. Depending on how much color you have taken on the brush, you will get a color ring or a series of designs.
Gently unfold the paper and let it dry for a few minutes. Iron the paper with a thin cloth on top to make smooth.
Fold the paper in half.
With scissors, cut the sheet of tissue paper into two along the center line. The color patterns are now a half-circle around a central point.
Cutting the tail of the peacock nicely having rounded edges. The cutting should be roughly parallel to the rings of color.
Range tissue paper making sure not to damage it and make the body of the peacock. On the white paper, draw the body of the peacock (as pictured).
Color the body of the animal brown with a felt pen, but one eye and beak. The eye remains white; draw the beak with a red felt pen. Work carefully so as not to leave other white spots. Then cut the body.
Take the tissue paper and cut up the body in the middle of the semicircle on the place of the paper.
Check if everything is perfect before attaching the peacock. Put a dab of glue on the underside.
Now, take a piece of thin cardstock paper of any color you desire. Choose the l;ocation and place the peacock where you want to paste it. Put a few dots of glue on the cardboard and spread them well before putting the peacock above.
When the card is dry, draw the legs and tassel with a ballpoint pen or felt-tip pen.