Kids love exploring, and they'll have so much fun roaming outside to collect leaves, acorn caps, grasses, and pine cones for this project. Afterward, they can help place their treasures on stacked gourds as this cool owl takes shape. (You should man the hot-glue gun.)

To make the owl: Gather small and medium-size leaves, acorn caps, grasses, and pine cones. Glue small leaves on the front of a small oblong pumpkin, overlapping slightly, to create feathers. Glue four larger leaves on either side, overlapping them, to create wings. Attach a thin leather string with hot-glue to a small acorn squash to create the outline of the face. Pull apart a pine cone and use the individual scales to create the nose, attaching with hot-glue. Attach acorn caps to create eyes and feather reed grass to create ears and whiskers. Stack squash on pumpkin.

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