This is the first of two shape crafts I will be sharing with you this week. Each of the shape crafts is based on the book Are You My Mother? Today’s shape craft is a bird. You will notice that it looks very similar to the bird that sets out to look for its mother in the book. It features a few large shapes and a few small shapes. Young children will be able to put the shapes together to build a simple bird. Older children can add details to their bird to make it look more like the bird in the book.
Getting Ready for the Are You My Mother? Craft
Each of your children will need the following shapes cut out of construction paper or scrapbooking paper:
- Two small yellow triangles
- A small white oval
- Two large tan circles (One circle will need to be slightly larger than the other.)
- One tan rectangle for the bird’s neck
- One medium sized triangle with a wedge cut out of it.
- One black oval cut out of foam
- One large triangle
Children will also need a piece of construction paper to mount the shape craft on and a glue stick.
Creating the Are You My Mother? Bird Shape Craft
Children will start by gluing the head, body, tail, and neck of the bird in place.
Then they will need to white eye section and the wing to the shape bird.
Next, the black foam eye section will need to be glued to the bird. It will add a little bit of a dimension to the craft.
Finally, they will need to glue the yellow beak sections in place. We had to play with our before we liked how they looked.
If you are looking for more activities based on the book Are You My Mother?, I think you will like the crafts and activities I have listed below.
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