Decorate a Gourd Bird House
Acrylic paints are the best paints to use to decorate a bird house, if you are nervous about painting directly onto the gourd you can draw your design onto it, with a pencil or marker pen before you start. Use layers of acrylics to build up colors.
You can paint anything you like onto your gourd, so be really creative, some people turn their gourds into figures, or animals (with the bird hole as the mouth) and some paint beautiful patterns or messages onto theirs.
Another way of decorating your gourd bird house, is to use a soldering iron or wood burning tool to burn a pattern into it. Use a pencil to draw out your design first and have a few practice runs before you attempt burning your gourd.
Don't be afraid to stick bits onto your creation, you could use shells or twigs, or cover the gourd with leaves or silk flowers... the best thing to use for this is a glue gun.
When you are done, give your gourd a coat of clear varnish and leave to dry.
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