Model Cuckoo Clock

What You’ll Need:

• cereal box
• assorted paper
• scissors
• glue
• pencil
• plate
• marker
• metal fastener
• three pinecones
• three pushpins
• yarn
• tape

How to Make It:

1. Cover a cereal box with brown paper. Cut a door in the back that’s large enough for your hand to fit through.

2. Cut a small door near the top of the box on the front. Add a paper latch. Through the door in the back, glue heavy paper behind the small door to block the opening.

3. For the clockface, trace around a plate onto white paper and cut out the shape. Use a marker to add regular or Roman numerals.

4. From paper, cut out leaves and other decorations. Use a marker to add details.

5. Glue the clockface and the decorations onto the front of the box.

6. Cut out a long hand and a short hand from heavy black paper. Use a metal fastener to attach them to the clockface.

7. Cut out a paper cuckoo to fit behind the small door. Use markers to add details. To make a spring, accordion-fold a strip of paper. Glue one end to the cuckoo and the other end behind the small door.

8. Collect three pinecones. Place a pushpin in each one. Tie yarn around each pushpin. Tape the yarn ends to the bottom of the box.

9. Tape a yarn hanger on the back of the clock.