Tiki Birdhouse

About a month ago Delaney and I went to Michael’s and saw a Tiki birdhouse on display. Of course, Delaney loved it and kept asking to go back and look at it again. After stopping to look at the birdhouse at least 3 times, I told Delaney we could pick up all the supplies and make it at home ourselves. Delaney was totally excited to have a craft project to do at home because she fancies herself an “artist.” Which in other words means she likes to paint and play with play-doh, then will loudly proclaim that whatever she has just drawn or just molded out of play-doh is the most beautiful thing she has ever seen.


As soon as we got home from Michael’s we painted the birdhouse brown. Delaney did all of the painting herself and she really did a good job. The next part of project was to glue on all these little painted wooden Hawaiian/Tiki themed items to the birdhouse to complete the tropical effect. Well in true scatterbrained fashion, I couldn’t find my hot glue gun. After searching for the elusive glue gun for a month, I finally gave in today and bought a new one.


Upon buying the glue gun, Delaney and I returned home to finish our project this afternoon. And just so none of my worrywart family members read this, ahem DAD, I didn’t let Delaney use a glue gun. I did all of the gluing myself with a little direction from Delaney on where to glue her “treasures.”


After it was all said and done I’m pretty proud of how my first joint craft project with a two year old turned out. What matters most though, is that Delaney is extremely proud of how this birdhouse looks and can’t wait to display it in her work-in-progress “Hawaii” room. When Chris got home from work tonight she told him that she thought it was the most beautiful birdhouse, EVER.