Birds! Birds! Birds!

Science and Art mesh so beautifully, especially when natural subjects are studied. In the case of birds we get to use our powers of observation as well as our imaginations to get inspired and create!

What can we observe about birds?

We see the parts of the bird… head, eyes, beak, body, wings, feet, toes, feathers…  We see some large birds, and some small. We see long legs, and some short. Birds are so many different colors, too!

We can sculpt birds by thinking about shapes we know. Roll a ball for the body, roll a tube for the wings. Press it together. Hi little bird!

We hear birds! It’s fun to listen and guess who clucks, quacks, gobbles, crows, tweets, chirps and caws! We are the swallows, the golondrinas. We love to make bird music!

What do birds feel like?

 We can touch feathers and feel how soft and tickly they feel on our skin. Feathers have to be very light so birds can fly. Birds fly fast! They flap their wings, soar, glide, circle, and swoop.

 We dip feathers into paint and imagine we are birds painting the sky as we fly, making soft trails of color on our papers.

Our little birds fly through the fluffy clouds.

 

We draw birds.

“He’s a really fast little bird. That’s the nest. It’s for a bird to fly. The bird is eating bugs. They say, ashoo ashoo! They are eating and fly to the nest. The birds are flying away. It got cold and the bird flied away to where it get warmer.”

We can create our own wings, too! We paint our wings with bright colors and add feathers to them. We can put on our wings and flap and fly.

 

Where are we flying to? Our nests of course!

This one is hard.

This one is soft.

Goodnight Little birds!