1. Paint six craft sticks and four mini craft stick white. Paint nine craft sticks red.
2. Use blue and green paper to create a blue sky and green grass on the cardstock.
3. Create the bottom of the barn by gluing on a row of 11 craft sticks vertically in the following pattern: two red, one white, five red, one white, two red.
4. Glue the white sticks horizontally along the top and bottom and cross two in the middle as shown.
5. Glue the mini craft sticks to red cardstock to form the barn roof. Adhere the barn roof to the background above the barn.
6. Cut out a rectangle from black paper and adhere it to the barn. Cut strips from a paper bag and crumple for the look of hay; adhere to black rectangle.