If you need to package your gift, but you don’t want to use the boring bows and ribbons for its design, then our article is for you. Today we will tell you how to originally decorate the gift with the help of flamingos, made with their own hands.

Materials and tools:

• pink yarn
• pink brushes for cleaning tubes
• scissors
• cardboard

How to make a Flamingo with his own hands

From the cardboard cut out two identical mug. Each circle cut out the Central part that they turned into rings.

Fold the two cardboard “doughnut” together. Take a long strand of yarn and start to wind it on the rings, after each round of skipping the edge of the threads in the Central hole. Completely wrap the cardboard ring.

Insert the tip of the scissors between the cardboard rings and cut the yarn in a circle along the outer edge.

A little push the ring around the Central part of the pieces of yarn tie a tight knot. Leave long thread ends, they will become the legs of a Flamingo.

The neck of the Flamingo make truncated to the desired length brush for cleaning tubes. Stick the brush in a pompon and bend to the shape of the neck.

Remove the cardboard ring, flatten the POM-POM, giving it a neat shape. If necessary, cut off protruding pieces of yarn.

Cute Flamingo is ready, now to fix it on the packaging.

Note: these flamingos can be used not only for decoration of gifts, but also for decorating the room, as Christmas tree decorations.