How to Make a Garden Ornament
Use recycled materials to make a garden buddy that will not only add a fun touch to your outdoor space, but it'll also help keep birds away from your budding plants.
- Excerpted from Ready, Set, Grow! by DK BooksDorling Kindersley
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4. Make the Body
Make the body by putting holes in opposite sides of a plastic bottle near the bottom. Insert a length of coat-hanger wire through them, looping to secure at each end. The legs will hang from this. Do the same to attach the arms higher up the body.
Enlarge Photo+Shrink Photo-DK - Ready Set Grow! © 2010 Dorling Kindersley Limited5. Add the Head and Facial Details
Use a plastic flowerpot for the figure's head. Then, glue on bottle caps for the eyes and nose. A strip of foil will make nice shiny teeth, and string works well for the hair.
Enlarge Photo+Shrink Photo-DK - Ready Set Grow! © 2010 Dorling Kindersley Limited6. Add Old CDs
Consider old CDs as part of your design. They make shimmering reflections that will discourage hungry birds, so tuck a few of them inside your figure's body.
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