Make a Wooden Craft Stick Reindeer for Hanging

Rudolf has a very large, bright red nose.

       This old-fashioned child-ornament reindeer craft is simple for little ones to assemble and paint if parents or older siblings cut the Popsicle sticks in advance. 

Supply List:

• acrylic brown paint ( one dark brown and one lighter brown)
  
• one red pom-pom
• two googly eyes
• brown felt
• a bit of cotton fluff
• white school glue
• twine for the hanger
• 5 narrow Popsicle sticks
  

Step-by-Step Instructions: 

1. Use three of the Popsicle sticks to construct the Rudolf's head. Make sure that some of the crossing at the top of it's head sticks out far enough to shape the antlers for this wooden reindeer. Apply the glue at each corner and let dry. If you are working with a very young child to make this craft, you might want to do this step ahead of time.
2. Cut with scissors in advance, three segments of the wooden craft sticks that will fill in the face of this reindeer. Have the child glue these down. Let dry. (Read the story of "Rudolf, The Red Nosed Reindeer")
3. Now paint the antlers a dark brown and the face a lighter brown.
4. Glue on the felt ears and fluff.
5. Glue on the google eyes.
6. Glue on the nose. 
7. Let the entire project dry over night. 
8. Parent may hot glue the twine on the back of the deer's head for hanging in the morning.

More About Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer:

•  Craft a Portrait of Rudolf Using Paper, Paint and Pom-poms
  
• Gene Autry "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" on The Ed Sullivan Show
• Cute kids sing "Rudoph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"