This plastic cup crow is a fun fall craft for kids that I made a few years ago. All you’ll need are some plastic cups, a little paint, some construction paper and a few doodads. This is a great project for a fall or harvest party, for a craft station at your school’s fall carnival or just for a fun afternoon craft for kids.
There are plenty of scarecrow crafts for fall, but let’s not forget the crows! Psst, there are affiliate links in this post. That means if you happen to click and buy anything, I’ll earn a small commission. Thank you!
To make this plastic cup crow you will need:
- 2 small plastic or Dixie cups (bathroom size) (paper or foam cups work too!)
- 2 cotton balls
- 2 medium googly eyes
- 1 red button
- scrap of orange craft foam
- scrap of orange construction paper
- Acrylic craft paint: black and goldenrod
- scissors
- white craft glue
There’s a printable version of this plastic cup crow project below!
Fun facts about crows:
- Crows join what are called “roosts” in the fall and winter. That means they join together as large groups and sleep together as a group. This primarily happens during the fall and winter months as the group disperses in the spring during mating season.
- In the spring you may notice that crows are very raucous and noisy, then strangely they become very quiet. Female crows make a lot of noise while nesting, but once eggs are laid both adults become rather quiet so as not to give away the location of their nest.
- Surely you’ve seen a crow on the side of the road picking at roadkill. Crows will eat whatever is readily available, including fruits, vegetables, insects, eggs, and yes, dead animals.
Some fun crow crafts:
- Use Mod Podge to create a fun crow themed vase
- Make a blingy crow topped pumpkin
- Create faux taxidermy with a fake foam crow
- Make an adorable paper plate crow with the kids
More fun fall crafts for kids:
- Paint a really cool spooky tree using a stencil
- Make fall leaf finger puppets to play with
- Turn craft sticks and corks into cute scarecrows for the garden
- When the paper towels run out make a cardboard tube scarecrow
Plastic Cup Crow
Supplies
- 2 small plastic cups bathroom size (paper or foam cups work too!)
- 2 cotton balls
- 2 medium wiggle eyes
- 1 red button
- scrap of orange craft foam
- scrap of orange construction paper
- Acrylic craft paint: black and goldenrod
- scissors
- white craft glue
Instructions
- Paint one of the cups black and the other with goldenrod. Set cups aside to dry.
- Cut a triangle from the orange craft foam for the beak.
- Cut a heart shape for the feet from orange construction paper.
- When paint is dry, use scissors to cut thin slits (fringes) halfway up the goldenrod cup, going all the way around. Bend the “fringes” upward to form the hat.
- Turn the hat over and put 2 cotton balls inside the cup. Glue hat to the bottom end of the black painted cup. Let dry.
- Glue 2 wiggle eyes and beak on to the cup under the hat.
- Glue the red button to the front side of the hat.
- Glue the heart feet to the opening of the black cup, bend the construction paper up into the sides of the cup so that just the “feet” stick out.
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Melissa says
I’m featuring this creative craft today! What a fun fall craft! Love it!
Amanda Formaro says
Thanks so much for the feature!
Mary Smith says
That crow is so cute!!
Amanda Formaro says
Thanks mary!
creativejewishmom/sara says
love it! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!
atnumber29 says
this is a great idea!
Amy@One Artsy Mama says
This is adorable; I'm pinning it to do with my son! I'm hosting a Fall Craft Challenge on Fridays and one of the upcoming themes will be Kids' Crafts…I hope you'll come link up. If you have any centerpiece ideas, that's this week's theme!
amy
oneartmama.blogspot.com
Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas says
oh, how I adore this crow! Must try it during our fall theme – he is just darling!
Would love to invite you to link some of your kid friendly crafts on my Child Centered Linky Party – The Sunday Showcase – http://momto2poshlildivas.blogspot.com/search/label/Sunday%20Showcase
Your site is full of awesome ideas – now following & looking forward to exploring some more!
Bern
Vintage Teacher says
This adorable!
Becky @ UCreate with Kids says
I featured this darling CROW today. You are seriously clever! Great job!