Owl Peg Doll Tutorial

Finding hands-on projects for our unit studies and main lesson blocks brings me so much joy, especially when we can make adorable owl peg dolls like these. They were pretty simple to do, but had their challenges. Making the eyes were too hard for my 8-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son, so after they attempted, I helped them fix it up. The beaks were also really hard to do and while we found some solutions, I'm thinking they are eventually going to break off. While those small pieces are choking hazards for young children, these peg dolls babies are also very small and so I don't recommend giving these to young children. Also, as we used a mix of Lyra Opaque watercolors (which I believe are safe for children), I don't know about the acrylic paint we use to make the black around the eyes. For that reason, I advise you check the safety of your paints and keep these objects (whether painted or not), out of the hands of small children. For the first time, I glued the peg doll base onto a small square of watercolor paper using a glue dot so the children and I would have an easier time painting them. I don't know why it took me so long to figure that out! But oh did it make things easier. I'm using peg doll babies and Lyra Opaque watercolors for this project. You can find these materials at A Child's Dream. I used various materials for the beak. You can see more pictures and links to products on the blog post that accompanies this video: https://www.pepperandpine.com/owl-uni... This project is part of our Owl Unit Study and you can see the complete playlist of projects as well as the resources we used for this unit here:    • Homeschool Haul   Here's the playlist for our Bird Unit Study:    • How to put Together a Unit Study | Birds |...   Check out the Peg Doll blog post that accompanies this video for more information on the materials we used and to see other peg doll tutorials. https://www.pepperandpine.com/everyth... Find me here:   / pepperandpine     / pepperandpine     / pepperandpine   https://www.pepperandpine.com