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Supplies needed: - Patterns below - Thick pine wood - Middle thick piece of plywood - Pencil - Tracing paper - Scroll-saw - Acrylic paint in terracotta, brown, red, dark green,   black and white - Moss - 2 small pinecones - Acorns - Chestnuts - Hot glue gun - Drill with 3.5 mm bit - 1 wood screw 3.5 mm x 35 mm Wood Craft for Autumn - Scroll Saw Project - Busy Squirrel In the fall, the squirrels are busy collecting a supply of food for the winter. Whether nuts or pine cones, they need to find enough to keep them through the winter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions: 1. Print out and trace the squirrel pattern onto the pine wood. Print out and trace the bottom piece onto the plywood. 2. Saw out all of the required pieces and sand them smooth. 3. Paint the squirrel terracotta on all sides and let it dry. Use the picture as a reference. When it is dry, dry brush brown and red on the edges and within the body and tail. 4. Paint the eye black. Let it dry and then dot a white spot onto the front of the eye. 5. Paint the bottom piece dark green on all sides and let it dry. Brush dark brown on the edges. 6. Drill a hole from the bottom of the bottom piece and drill a hole into the bottom of the squirrel at the back of his foot. Insert a screw through the bottom piece and screw into the foot to secure him onto the board. 7. Use the hot glue gun to glue moss and the found nuts and pinecones onto the board. If you find a twig with acorns, you can glue this onto this hands. If necessary, glue the acorn bottoms into acorn tops to secure them. Free Scrollsaw Patterns: Squirrel   Bottom Piece Basic wood cutting with a scroll saw tutorial Drybrushing tutorial How to make patterns tutorial   Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.craftideas.info     More wood craft projects for Valentine’s Day, spring and Easter Find more wood crafts for all occasions Find fall and Halloween wood crafts More wood craft projects for Christmas and winter Craft Patterns and Templates Craft Tutorials Drybrushing tutorial Basic wood cutting with a scroll saw tutorial Tips and tricks for paper crafts, card making, etc... Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter       Wooden Black Cat and Moon     All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info are property of the owners of this website and may be only printed out and used for private or non-commercial purposes. It is not permitted to use them on the internet or in any other publication.