Making a Wine Cork Reindeer

Total Time: 30 minutes

Yield: 1

Supplies:

• 4 corks
• 1 pipe cleaner (gold or brown)
• 2 google eyes
• 1 small red pompom
• 1 small bell (optional)
• knife
• glue gun

Steps:

1. Take a cork and find the middle lengthwise. Mark it with a pencil and cut the cork in half. Repeat this with a second cork.

 
2. Take two of your cork halves and cut them in half again so that you end up with 4 moon shaped pieces.

 

 
3. Take another cork half and hot glue it to the side of a whole cork. Allow the cork half to hang over the edge of the other cork. This is your reindeer's head.

 
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4. Now hot glue the quartered cork pieces onto the underside of the whole cork. These are the reindeer's legs.

 
5. Cut your pipe cleaner so that you have a piece that is 4 inches long and one that is 2 inches long. Fold the 4 in. piece in half, forming a "v" shape.

 
6. Hot glue the "v" shaped piece of pipe cleaner to the back of the reindeer's head to form it's antlers. Then take your 2 in. piece, fold it in half, and twist it together to for a tail. By doubling up the pipe cleaner you have a more rigid wire to push into the back of the cork to form a tail. I recommend using a pen or pencil to make an initial hole in the cork, then apply a small amount of hot glue to the hole before trying to push the tail in. This will help hold it in place.

 
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7. Finally apply the eyes to the head and the red pompom to the front of the head for it's nose. Then under the head, apply a blob of hot glue and push the bell into it. If you want to make it into an ornament, you can either attach a small eyelet screw to it's back and run a piece of string through, or you could hot glue a ribbon to it.