The Bird Art Show

This is the time of year... in classrooms all across the land... when projects are wrapping up. My early childhood group is preparing for their Advent Spiral celebration on Thursday evening and my elementary group is preparing for their Class Play on the Friday afternoon before Winter Break.

We took a hiatus from Science Club in December so that we could put all of our creative energy into playwriting and production.  The Science Club group had their big event on the Friday before we left for Autumn Break. Here are the pictures from their fabulous Bird Art Show:

the charming cardinal illustration from the

Charley Harper Coloring Book of Birds

the Feathers display complete with Feather Holder from the TableMannersWoodwork Etsy store and a quill pen activity with two homemade inks (fermented pokeberry and black walnut) 

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Marguerite Makes a Book by Bruce Robertson

Feathers:  Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart
Feather Assortment Set from Nature Watch
Fermented Pokeberry Ink recipe

the Bird Watching and Bird Songs display complete with window bird feeder, bird identification books, and Audubon Plush Birds with sounds

Peterson Field Guide to Birds

National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America

Finding Your Wings:  A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers

Bird Log Kids by DeAnna Brandt

the Penguin display complete with Antartica Puzzle Map, Antarctica Biome Cards, and Penguin Camo experiment

Penguin Inkblot Painting activity

Eric Carle's Animals Animals by Laura Whipple

the Cardinal display complete with both cardinal and cardinal feather artwork

Cardinals in Winter art lesson

the Wall of Bird Facts

Everything You Never Learned about Birds by Rebecca Rupp

the Eggs and Nests display complete with fact cards, branch weavings, paintings, needle felted artwork, real ostrich and emu eggs, chicken and duck eggs which had been soaked in vinegar to remove their shells... 

plus an extensive collection of real bird nests

the Beaks and Feet display complete with replica bird skulls and tracks, sketches of bones from our barn owl pellet dissections, and a great blue heron spearing beak activity

IDNR Birds of Illinois resource bin contents

The Barn Owls by Tony Johnston

Barn Owl Pellets for Owl Pellet Dissection from Nature Watch

Owl Pellet Bone Sorting Chart (PDF)

the Chicken display complete with knitted and painted wild and domesticated chickens, North America Grasslands Biome Cards, and posters of plants and animals of the tallgrass prairie

Jewels of the Prairie free poster set from Iowa Living Roadway Trust

Root Systems of Prairie Plants poster

the Dinosaur display including "How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds," charts and diagrams, needle felting, and our information table of books

the Poems for Two Voices performance of

"Dawn"

"The Common Egret"

"Owls"

I am Phoenix:  Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

A wonderful time was had by all!

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