Bird puppet toilet roll craft

I got the idea from this site: http://www.redtedart.com/2010/07/21/fall-crafts-leaf-marionette-birds/. Good value toddler craft.

Material
1 kitchen roll cardboard tube (or 2 toilet roll tubes)
a piece of yellow card
some string
a few coloured feathers
2 googly eyes
cotton wool
2 large beads
2 small rocks or something similarly weighty and non-degradable
a piece of newspaper
a stick
poster paint
glue

Instructions

1. Cut two pieces of toilet roll one slightly bigger than the other- one for the head and one for the body.
2. Get a child to paint them bright colours and stick googly eyes on the smaller piece.
3. Cut a yellow cone shape to fit the head and glue or tape into place.
4. Pierce 2 holes in the top of the body cavity about 2cm from each end, and thread some knotted string through.
5. Pierce 2 holes in the bottom centre of the body cavity  about 3cm apart, and thread some knotted string through. Thread the other ends through 2 beads, cut to desired size to make legs and knot in place.
6. Pierce 1 hole in the bottom of the head (for the neck), about 1/3 from back, and another in the top of head, a little closer to the back than the neck. 
7. Attach the body to the head with the piece of string at the front of the body, and knot in place.
8. Thread a piece of knotted string into the hole in the top of the head. Tie to the stick. 
9. Tie the string at the back of the body onto the stick. Adjust the string lengths so the puppet hangs well.
10. Place two small rocks inside the body cavity as weights- hold in place with screwed up newspaper and some glue, then get child to glue balls of cotton wool to close both ends, as well as the back of the head.
11. Get child to decorate the puppet by gluing feathers on for wings and tail.