Point out their bright colors and exotic shapes. Give each child a template of a bird s body. Let the child trace around it onto a piece of construction paper and cut it out. Have the children cut construction paper strips into tapering shapes of different lengths to make tail, wings, and crest to glue onto the bird s body. They can curl the strips around their pencils.
Children can use the hole punch to make eyes out of scraps to glue on their bird.
They can also use scraps for the beak and feet. Help the children punch a hole in the bird s head or back and run a thread or yarn through so that it can be hung from the ceiling or wall. With Younger Children Show the children how to pleat colored paper as if for a fan. While they are making pleats, you trace the dove template on sheets of construction paper, cut out, and make a slit in each one, and distribute. Show the children how to slide the pleated paper through the slit to make the dove's wings.