Cardboard Tube Stork

I’ve partnered up with Warner Bros. Pictures to bring you this fun kid’s craft, an adorable cardboard tube stork! This stork craft was inspired by the new animated film STORKS, in theaters this Friday. I can’t wait to see it! I had a smile on my face watching the trailer, you can see it below. So save the date to bring your whole flock to see it, but first, let’s make a stork!

Cardboard Tube Stork

For many years, storks have been closely associated with the age-old story of how babies are delivered. Playing off that concept of yesteryear, this new movie takes stork delivery service to an entirely different level! Kids and parents alike are going to love this movie. Let’s watch the trailer first before we make our cardboard tube stork:

Movie Synopsis

Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl.

Desperate to deliver this bundle of trouble before the boss gets wise, Junior and his friend Tulip, the only human on Stork Mountain, race to make their first-ever baby drop – in a wild and revealing journey that could make more than one family whole and restore the storks’ true mission in the world.

With a host of lovable and fun characters, this is a great family movie and I can’t wait to see it!

Now that you’re all psyched to see the movie, let’s get ready for it by making this cute cardboard tube stork craft project.

To make a cardboard tube stork you will need:

• 4-inch cardboard tube (toilet roll or cut a paper towel roll)
• 2 white pipe cleaners
• 2 orange pipe cleaners
• White paper (copy/printer paper will work!)
• White feathers
• Glue stick
• Craft glue
• Tweezers
• 2 googly eyes

NOTE: You can find a full printable version of this craft at the end of this post.

What you do:

Cover the 4-inch cardboard tube with white paper using a glue stick.

Use tweezers to poke two holes in the cardboard tube about 1/2-inch apart. This is where the legs will go.

Bend an orange pipe cleaner in half and insert one into the holes from the inside of the tube.

Bend the bottom of each end of the orange pipe cleaner to make the foot, about 1-inch long.

Bend the legs and set aside.

Twist the two white pipe cleaners together to make one thicker pipe cleaner.

Use tweezers to poke a hole in the top of the tube (for the neck, so opposite side from the legs).

Insert the thick white pipe cleaner into the hole and bend in place from the inside of the tube.

Starting at the top of the white pipe cleaner, wrap the pipe cleaner around the end of your tweezers to create a tight coil (the head).

Cut a 4-inch piece from the remaining orange pipe cleaner and tuck it into the coiled white pipe cleaner.

Grab your glue and add a dab or two to each of the following areas: beak, neck where it enters the tube, and legs where they enter the tube.

Glue on googly eyes to each side of the head and glue white feathers to both sides of the tube. Glue a feather coming out the back of the tube as the tail.

And there you have it, a cute cardboard tube stork!

Don’t forget! STORKS will be in theaters on this Friday!

Find out more about STORKS and follow along on social media:

• Visit the Official Site
• Like ‘Storks’ on Facebook
• Follow on Twitter and Instagram

Print Project

5 from 2 votes

Cardboard Tube Stork

Author: Amanda Formaro

Supplies

• 4- inch cardboard tube toilet roll or cut a paper towel roll
• 2 white pipe cleaners
• 2 orange pipe cleaners
• White paper copy/printer paper will work!
• White feathers
• Glue stick
• Craft glue
• Tweezers
• 2 googly eyes

Instructions

• Cover the 4-inch cardboard tube with white paper using a glue stick.
• Use tweezers to poke two holes in the cardboard tube about 1/2-inch apart. This is where the legs will go.
• Bend an orange pipe cleaner in half and insert one into the holes from the inside of the tube.
• Bend the bottom of each end of the orange pipe cleaner to make the foot, about 1-inch long.
• Bend the legs and set aside.
• Twist the two white pipe cleaners together to make one thicker pipe cleaner.
• Use tweezers to poke a hole in the top of the tube (for the neck, so opposite side from the legs).
• Insert the thick white pipe cleaner into the hole and bend in place from the inside of the tube.
• Starting at the top of the white pipe cleaner, wrap the pipe cleaner around the end of your tweezers to create a tight coil (the head).
• Cut a 4-inch piece from the remaining orange pipe cleaner and tuck it into the coiled white pipe cleaner.
• Grab your glue and add a dab or two to each of the following areas: beak, neck where it enters the tube, and legs where they enter the tube.
• Glue on googly eyes to each side of the head and glue white feathers to both sides of the tube. Glue a feather coming out the back of the tube as the tail.