easy-to-make bird magnets

thanks to the nifty bird template at paperseed.com http://thepaperseed.com/?cat=35 i now have some cute bird magnets to decorate our mail bin.

the suggestion at paperseed.com is to cut out the same birds in felt. i traced the birds onto posterboard then cut small pieces of color from magazine pages and decoupaged each of the birds. you could also cut the birds out of decorative paper, newspaper, fabric, etc. then cover each of the birds and hot glue a magnet to the back when you're done.