By Isabell Macrina
Hometown Weekly Staff
With the weather cooling down and the sun setting earlier, what better time than to learn a new craft from Crafting with Rachelle. This week, she brought along a craft that can be done with materials from your own backyard and some paint, pebble birds!
Rachelle brought a plethora of pebbles for the patrons to choose from to make their birds, and everyone also got a piece of wood to make the backdrop and string to hang it up afterwards. There were two examples shown, one that utilized the natural colors of the stones for the birds’ feathers, and one that painted them over. Broken up into groups of four, the groups brought over paints to put on their shared pallet before getting to work,
Everyone started by painting the branch on the wood so they could move the pebbles around until they found a spot they liked. People painted different styles of branches, some straight across, some spindling out, others blooming. One painted a nest and put two more pebbles as eggs in the nest. One didn’t paint a branch, instead put them on an adorable swing. After the background was finished, some scenes complete with snow, people decided what kind of birds to turn the rocks into. A lot of people painted robins, only adding a red belly and eyes to the stones to complete the brown and gray feathers they have. Some went for colorful birds, others turned them into wise owls looking over the sky. They then glued down the rocks and painted the beaks on the background so they were stuck out.
Then with a string strung through the holes so they could hang up, they were done! Everyone went home with a hand-painted scene of birds to decorate their home or gift as a keepsake, and the knowledge of how to it themselves if they want to.
