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Animals, Spring

Rocking Bird Craft

Jennifer
Rocking Bird Craft
Rocking Bird Craft

I love birds! We have several nests in trees around our home and up and down our street and we enjoy hearing the peeps of the babies! My son and I keep 2 bird feeders well stocked for our feathered friends to enjoy. Over the years, my son and I have made lots of bird crafts–one of our favorites is this rocking bird craft that he made when he was 3. This was fun and easy to make. And most of all, we love how it turned out. It actually rocks!

Supplies Needed:

  • 1 paper plate
  • crayons
  • feathers
  • googly eyes
  • tiny bit of orange or yellow construction paper
  • white school glue

How To:

Color one side of your paper plate. My son’s favorite color right now is blue, so just about everything we make is blue. Feel free to be creative and color your bird any way you want.

After your are dong coloring, fold the paper plate in half. The rounded side will be the bottom of the bird.

Now it’s time to decorate! Glue on feathers for wings and a tail. We used 3 different colors of feathers. I like how the feathers matched the colors of crayons my son used.

Finish your craft by giving your bird a face. Make a beak by cutting a diamond shape out of yellow or orange construction paper. Fold the diamond in half to make it look a beak. Add googly eyes and now you have a bird!

Make it rock by gently pushing down on one of the plate and then quickly letting go. The bird craft will rock back and forth!

Looking for more craft ideas?

Torn Paper Nest: welcome spring with this cute nest made from pieces of construction paper.

Egg Maracas: get read to shake, shake, shake with this quick and easy DIY maracas made out of plastic Easter eggs.

Mosaic Egg: using an assortment of colors and sizes of construction paper, glue all of the pieces together to form a mosaic egg.

Spring

Torn Paper Nest Craft

Jennifer

Spring is full of sweet little bird nests. We have several nests in trees around our house. My son and I love watching the baby birds hatch and we enjoy hearing their cute little peeps when their parents are feeding them! When my son was 3, we were working on learning Letter N during the spring. As part of our letter N week, my son learned that N is for nest and we made a torn paper nest craft as part of this unit. I love how his nest turned out!

Torn Paper Nest Craft

Supplies Needed:

  • construction paper in brown and 2 other colors
  • glue stick
  • scissors

How To:

This craft is pretty simple and doesn’t need many supplies. Being by tearing your brown construction paper into pieces. Pick a piece of construction paper for your background and then glue the brown pieces into a nest shape on it.

Next, pick a color for your eggs. We cut out 4 eggs. My son loves the color blue and really wanted blue eggs. What color eggs have you seen before?

Finish your project by gluing the eggs onto the nest. Let your nest dry. Now you have a torn paper nest craft to put up as part of your spring decorations!

Animals

Birds

Jennifer

A bird flew into our house today! Poor little thing thought it could escape through the window, but it got caught in our blinds. Thankfully my husband was able to free it and the bird flew back outside through our slider. It was quite an exciting start to our morning!

In honor of our little visitor, here are some my family’s favorite bird books:

Bird Stories

Birds by Kevin Henkes — this book is perfect for young bird lovers. The child in the story expresses the wonder and curiosity children have for our feathered friends. The picture perfectly capture the text and we love the bright, bold colors. Check this out from your local library, or buy it from Amazon here.

Kiwi Cannot Reach! by Jason Tharp — this story is laugh-out-loud funny and interactive. Kids will love helping Kiwi attempt to reach the rope that is hanging from the top of the page. The ending will result in lots of giggling and requests to read it again and again! We had checked this out from the library and my son loved it so much that I ended up buying it for him — it is still a favorite at bedtime! Check this out from your local library, or buy it from Amazon here.

Mel Fell

Mel Fell by Corey R. Tabor — this book is unique because you actually have to turn the book sideways to that the cover flips up because the bird is “falling.” But don’t worry because king fishers are diving birds, so everything turns out alright; plus then you get to turn the book so Mel can fly back up. The physicality of the book really makes it special. The concerned animal friends add humor to the story and we learned a lot of cool facts about kingfishers! Check this out from your local library, or buy it from Amazon here.

My son loves flamingos, so we have a whole list of favorite flamingo books for you check out!

Bird Activities:

Check out this read-aloud of Are You My Mother? from Brightly Storytime.

PAPER PLATE BIRD CRAFT:

This was fun and easy to make!

Supplies needed are 1 paper plate, crayons, feathers, googly eyes, tiny bit of orange or yellow construction paper to make a small beak, and glue.

-Color one side of your paper plate. My son’s favorite color right now is blue, so just about everything we make is blue, but feel free to be creative and color your bird any way you want.

-Fold the paper plate in half. The rounded side will be the bottom of the bird.

-Glue on feathers for wings and a tail.

-Add googly eyes and a beak and now you have a bird.

BIRD MOVEMENTS

Any time we get to use our imaginations, is a lot of fun. My son and I thought of bird activities and had a blast pretending to be birds. Here’s what we came up with:

-Make bird sounds — Can you tweet like a little bird? Caw like a crow? Quack like a duck? Coo like pigeon? Squawk like a parrot? Cock-a-doodle-doo like a rooster?

-Soar your arms out like an eagle

-Flap your “wings” really fast like a hummingbird

-Hop like a little bird

-Peck like a chicken

-Can you stand on one leg like a flamingo?

-Waddle like a penguin

Can you think of any other bird activities? Let me know 🙂