Cut a piece of cardboard to be 6 inches tall and about 6 inches long. It doesn't need to be exact.
Choose a colour of yarn for the bird's wings. We're using red.Wrap the yarn vertically around the cardboard 30 times.Cut the yarn at the same end where you started wrapping.
Repeat, adding colours for the face/chest of the bird (white) and the head/back (yellow). Wrap each colour around the cardboard 30 times.
Cut a piece of yarn about 12 inches long, the same colour as the first bundle.Slide the yarn under the bundle of yarn, above the cardboard, and tie it in a double knot in the middle.
Repeat, tying knots around the next two bundles of yarn.
Flip the cardboard over and cut the yarn bundles at their middle.
Step 3: Put the bird's body together
Set the yellow (head/back) bundle down vertically and place the white (face/chest) bundle down horizontally so the centers meet in a cross shape.
Fold the yellow bundle in half, flipping the top part down over top of the white yarn.
Tie all the yellow yarn together with a matching length of yarn, close to the middle where the bundles meet.
Gather all the white yarn together at the top and tie it together, again close to where the bundles meet.
Place the red bundle horizontally on top of the other yarn, again matching up the centers.
Set a small ball of stuffing overtop of the red bundle in the middle.
Fold the white yarn down to meet the yellow, adjusting the stuffing so it stays in the center of the bundles.
Then fold the red wings in to meet the rest of the bundles, covering the stuffing.
Once you've adjusted the yarn to your liking, tie a piece of red yarn to keep the stuffing in place.
Step 4: Add a beak, eyes, and legs to your yarn bird
Fold a small piece of orange felt in half and cut diagonally in from the folded side. Flip it over and repeat.You should have an orange diamond shape that, when folded in half, becomes a little beak.
Add a small dot of hot glue to the center of the orange diamond.
Push the beak together and then add a line of glue to the straight edge. Place it at the front of the bird, where the yellow and white yarn meet.
Add a dot of hot glue to the side of the bird's head, on the white yarn just below the yellow.
Place a black bead eye in the glue. Repeat on the other side.
For the bird's legs and feet, use a 6 inch brown pipe cleaner (or cut one to size) and fold it in half.Push the pipe cleaner through some of the yarn at the bottom middle of the bird. Pull the pipe cleaner through until the fold is at the center of the yarn.
Bend the ends of the pipe cleaner to make the bird's feet.To start, bend the end down about 3/8 inch and then back up on itself. Repeat until you have 3 folds that you can separate, creating the bird's foot.
Repeat, forming the second foot, and then bend the pipe cleaner so that the legs are pointing down and the feet stand flat.
Trim down the bird's tail until you're happy with the length and look of it. Try to arrange all the pieces of yarn neatly so that the tail is even.