Tag: birds

Birds-Toddler

Books

Baby Bird by Joyce Dunbar
Birds by Kevin Henkes
Early Bird by Toni Yuly
Flip, Flap, Fly! by Phyllis Root
Hooray for Birds! by Lucy Cousins
I Spy in the Sky by Edward Gibbs
Night Owl by Toni Yuly
This Little Chick by John Lawrence
Whose Chick Are You? by Nancy Tafuri
Wow! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood

Flannel Boards

Five Little Birds

Good-Night Owl!

The Little Bird

The Wise Blackbird


Rhymes & Fingerplays

Hinty, minty, cuty, corn
Hinty, minty, cuty, corn clap
Apple seed and apple thorn,
Wire, briar, limber lock
Three geese in a flock hold up three fingers
One flew east, and one flew west point to the right, point to the left
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest fly hand high right to left

Songs

Five Little Ducks by Raffi

Little Bird, Little Bird by Elizabeth Mitchell
This is a great song to pretend flying around the room.

Mother Gooney Bird by Eric Litwin
By the end you are flapping your arms, legs, and head. It is a fun challenge.

Three Little Birds by Elizabeth Mitchell
I like using rhythm sticks with this song.

Good-Night, Owl!

“Good-Night, Owl!” is a book written by Pat Hutchins. The story is simple to retell as you keep adding another set of birds to the menagerie. In the interest of copyright I’m not including a copy of the text. The book is still published and easy to obtain.

This is one of my more ambitious endeavors as I hand sewed so many different birds. I got the template for the birds from Downeast Thunder Farm. Susan makes patterns for many different bird and critter ornaments. I like the more realistic nature of them as I think it provides a subtle way of introducing children to the variety of forms animals are found in.

The Little Bird

Somewhere along the way I came across Elizabeth Mitchell and her Blue Clouds album. I like her Americana style of music. The songs are fun and upbeat without being too energetic. “The Little Bird” is one of the songs. As the song is played I add and subtract pieces as the lyrics dictate. When I made the pieces, I wrote out the words in the speech bubbles and back-stitched over the lettering for permanence.

The little bird hops through the bright green grass,
and the bright green grass grows high.
The little bird hops through the bright green grass,
and the little bird sings “Oh my”.
“Oh my, oh my,” the little bird sings “Oh my.”

The little birds sits in a strawy nest
in the strawy nest sits still.
The little bird sits in a strawy next,
and the little bird sings “Oh well.”
“Oh well, oh well,” the little bird sings “Oh well.”

The little bird flies through the bright blue sky,
and the bright blue sky floats by.
The little bird flies through the bright blue sky
and the little bird says “Bye-bye.”
“Bye-bye, bye-bye,” the little bird sings “Bye-bye.”

The Little Bird PDF