Needle Crafts

• Stitch roosters onto a variety of everyday objects. Embroider or cross stitch colorful roosters onto kitchen towels and pillows. Find fabrics with rooster prints to make cozy porch cushions and quilted throws. For a cozy country-style kitchen, make valances to add to solid window curtains. Quilt a runner for the table and make some matching place mats, hot pads, potholders and napkins with coordinated fabrics. Find images of different roosters on the Internet, print them out on fabric and applique to coordinating fabrics. Then frame a grouping and hang to display.
  
  

Wood Crafts

• Use old barn siding or other recycled wood scraps to make signs to add country charm to your home. Paint a rooster on the wood along with a cute phrase or your family name to hang with a grouping of pictures. Use wood-burning techniques to create plaques, or carve the image and letters into the wood for a different effect. Cut out a simple wood rooster shape and paint on details or stain it solid. Then mount it on a dowel and wood block base for a primitive accent.
  
  

Kids Crafts

• Let kids trace their hands with fingers together on a red foam craft sheet to create the rooster's comb. Use a small, upside-down white plastic drinking cup for the rooster's head and glue on a yellow felt or construction paper beak and googly eyes. Glue the cock's comb to the top of the head. Glue some feathers along the lower edge. Alternatively, use a white paper plate for the face, gluing the googly eyes and beak on and attaching the cock's comb to the top. Add feathers along the bottom of the plate. To make a paper craft, cut rooster shapes out of card stock and add feather tails and use the hand print for the cock's comb. Decorate a plastic butter tub to use as a stand and attach the rooster through a slit cut into the bottom of the tub.
  
  

Metal Crafts

• Create unique shelf and wall decor with metal sheets. Cut out a rooster shape from aluminum or tin sheeting, and emboss by pressing into the aluminum with a variety of readily available embossing tools. Use crochet hook tips, skewers, and different types of tools and tool handles to indent the outlines of feathers, tails and head features. Mount it on a metal stake to use as garden art. Alternatively, emboss the design on an uncut metal sheet and frame or mount on a wooden board.