Bird Cage

This Idea Came From: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/animals/cagedbird/

Our Experience: I was and still am shocked that this worked!! This is a project that requires doing a first step then waiting another day or later in the evening. It takes some time to get the hang of slippery glue, string, and a balloon. We tried a few ways and the best was to just dunk all the string in a bowl full of glue at once. Get it all gunky! Then put it on the balloon. Wear a smock and do not be scared of having a good amount of clean up on hair, clothes.. and tables. It is just Elmers so it is not so horrible but be prepared for a potential mess. After we helped each other wrap the balloon with wet glued string we found a clothes-pin and hooked it to a hanger so there would be no issues with getting it off a plate or worse! It dried by evening the same day- so we took a small dowel and raffia string and put our bird on a perch. The moment of truth was when it was time to pop the balloon... the glue slowed down the popping process and was not startling. It was actually really cool. It retracted like the Wicked Witch of the East's feet curled under Dorothy's house. We had a giggle about that. Our bird cage is now hanging in our living room since it is so neat-o!

The Lesson: Something that was expected to be terribly hard.. was really easy. What made this project awesome was we were so surprised by its success. It is fun to get really gloppy and sloppy. And it is super cute!