Wacky Wednesday: Birds

Wacky Wednesday:

Birds

• Bird Collage: Magazines, glue, paster board, scissors

1. Cut bird pictures out of magazines.
2. Glue them onto a piece of poster board.

• Feather Bookmarks: Feathers, clear self-adhesive paper, hole puncher, yarn, dish pan, dish soap, absorbent paper

1. Take your children on a nature hike and look for feathers.
2. Wash the feathers by soaking them in dish soap and water in a dish pan.
3. Rinse and lay the feathers on absorbent paper to dry.
4. The next day press each feather between two pieces of clear self-adhesive paper that has been precut to bookmark size.
5. Punch a hole in the top of the bookmark and thread a piece of yarn through the hole to make decorative.

• Bird's Nest: Big piece of cardboard, pillows

1. Place cardboard onto the ground.
2. Place pillows on the outside of the cardboard piece.
3. Kids can then go into the bird's nest and pretend they are baby birds.
4. Someone can pretend to feed the baby birds or feed them nuts.
5. You can make wings by gluing feathers to two pieces of cardboard.
6. Add elastic straps to the pieces of cardboard, so that they can hook around their arms.

• Hatching Baby Birds : Oversized T-shirt per child

1. Have your child put on the t-shirt and tuck their body inside the shirt. (Head inside head hole, arms inside arm holes and knees bend toward stomach so the entire body is encased inside of the shirt.)
2. Slowly poke out head, then arms and legs.
3. Pretend to hatch and fly. 

• Bird Watching: Binoculars, bird book

1. Take a walk and see how many different birds your child can find.
2. See if you can find the birds in their bird book.

• Plastic Spoon Bird: Plastic spoon and fork, glue, construction paper

1. Overlap and glue together the handles of a plastic fork and spoon.
2. The bowl of the spoon is the head, and the fork tines make a tail.
3. Glue a one-piece set of paper wings across the handles.
4. Make a beak and eyes from paper and glue them to the spoon end.

• Cereal Feeder: Circle-shaped cereal, heavy string

1. Thread circle-shaped cereal pieces onto a heavy string, and hang them in a tree.
2. Look for birds feeding from the string.
3. Also try threading cranberries and popped corn onto the string.

• Bird Coloring Pages:

1. http://www.coloring.ws/birds.htm
2. http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals/cp_birds.htm
3. http://www.birdwatching-bliss.com/bird-coloring-pages.html
4. http://www.50birds.com/CB/CBb.htm

• More Bird activities:

1.  http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/bird-day/
2. http://www.abirdsworld.com/html/games___activities.html
3. http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/kids

Songs/Poems:

Two little dickey birds sitting on a hill

One named Jack and the other named Jill (hold up index finger of each hand)

Fly away Jack.  Fly away Jill. (move fingers behind back)

Come back Jack.  Come back Jill. (bring fingers back)

Substitute dickey birds with other birds

"Little Baby Robin Eggs"  tune of "Puff, the Magic Dragon"

Little baby robin eggs (cup palm of hands together)

Amidst the leaves so still (raise hands up high)

Never will I touch your nest (shake pointer finger)

For it would surely spill. (drop hands to the floor)

I'll listen for your little chirps (point to ear)

As you begin to hatch (close palm, then open)

And watch when you try hard to fly (point to eyes)

Above the garden patch. (wiggle fingers as if to fly)

Little baby robin eggs (cup palm of hands together)

I'll wait to hear you sing (touch lips)

For then I'll know without a doubt (go down low)

The season must be Spring (jump up high)

Books:

• Birds We Know by Margaret Friskey
• Feathers by Dorothy H. Patent
• Birds Eat and Eat and Eat by Roma Gans
• Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr, Suess
• Feathers for Lunch by Lois Ehlert
• What Makes a Bird a Bird? by May Garelick

Wacky Wednesday: Birds