Spring Craft - Feeding Worms to Baby Bird/Nest - Fine Motor

Yesterday we made a clothes pin "Robin" mama with "worms" from pipe cleaners

Today, by my son's request, we made a nest and a baby bird to feed

Materials

 Nest
Small Paper Plate
Brown and Yellow Construction Paper
Glue Stick
Scissors
Popsicle Stick
Brown Crayon
Blue Construction Paper

 Baby Bird
Small white paper plate cut into the shape of a baby bird (kind of a bowling pin shape)
Orange and Black Crayons
2 Googlie Eyes
Elmer's Glue
2 Feathers
Small Diamond-Shaped Piece of Construction Paper (or better yet, card stock)
Hole Punch
Scrapbook glue tape


How To:

The night before - 

with Elmers Glue
Glue the Popsicle stick to the back of the baby bird that you cut from a paper plate
Glue the 2 feathers to the baby bird shape
Let dry overnight

In the morning -

Baby Bird -

Have child color the bird orange and black
Fold diamond shape in half to form an open beak
Affix with scrapbook tape to bird's face
Attach Gogglie Eyes
With hole punch, punch 3-4 holes inside the mouth, large enough to fit a pipe cleaner easily with minimal dexterity (your child has to be able to insert the worm while holding the clothes pin "mommy bird")

Nest -

Use scissors to cut a small slit in the center of the paper plate using adult scissors (to insert Popsicle stick so the baby bird can sit in the nest)

Have child color the paper plate with a brown crayon (I forgot this step)
You cut brown and yellow paper into strips and apply glue stick to the strips
Have child place the gluey strips to the paper plate to build the "nest"
Once you do that, you can insert the "baby bird" so that it can sit in the nest and wait to be "fed by the mama bird" - the Robin from yesterday's craft

Also, cut out several blue ovals and apply glue stick and have child put the eggs in the nest. 

Now you did a craft together but it's also an activity!

Your child can have fun picking up worms with the clothes pin mama bird and feeding them to the hungry baby bird.

Works on fine motor skills and it's fun!

Spring Robin and Worms Craft and Activity - Fine Motor Skills, Counting, Sorting, Cutting and Painting

Robin with worm in her mouth, in the grass

Materials:

Clothes Pin
Empty cereal box
Green and Brown construction paper
Acrylic paint - Black, Orange, Yellow
Q-Tips and thin paint brush
Googlie Eyes (smallest)
Pipe Cleaners in variety of colors
Child scissors and adult scissors
Scrapbook tape roller
Green crayons

Have child help as much as you think they can handle...

Bird/Robin -

Have child help you paint the clothes pin with a Q-Tip and small brush in orange, black and yellow
When it dries, affix Googlie eyes on either side

Grass Patch -

Cut side off of cereal box
Have child color a brown piece of paper with various green crayon shades for "grass blades"
Cut paper to fit inside cereal box, glue down with scrapbook tape

Use long and short pieces of construction paper (green and brown) to cut "patches of grass", let child cut paper into blades, glue down with scrapbook tape to bottom of cereal box where you glued the brown paper before (bend the blades of grass to make them more "grass-like")

Worms -

Cut pipe cleaners into 3" pieces and fold the pointy ends down in a loop against the pipe cleaner to make rounded tips on each side (so it's not so sharp to play with)

Bend pipe cleaner to make it "wiggly" shaped

Activity

Fine motor skills of "catching" worms with the clothes pin, finding them in the "grass"
Sorting worms by color
Counting how many of each color worm

Ocean Page - English and Spanish (Handprint and Fingerprint painting)

Have child help you paint the ocean, clouds and sun
Use their hand print to make a boat, add construction paper sails once it dries
Use fingerprints with paint to add sea creatures (once the ocean dries)

Draw on faces and features to creatures in the ocean
Label in Spanish and English

Learning Spanish - Bug Garden Page (Fingerprint Painting)

Find and print out a coloring page of a garden with flowers, sun, clouds, fence etc.

Label all of the coloring page with Spanish words

Decide which bugs you'd like to feature and look up the Spanish word for those and jot down somewhere

Use a brush to paint your child's fingertip in a color and make a bug on the paper (red for ladybug etc.), wipe off paint from finger between each "bug" painting

Let paint dry on all bugs and then with a thin black Sharpie outline and add features to each bug

Then label each bug with the Spanish word

Learning Spanish - Ant Picnic Page

 Print out a tablecloth page from Google images onto white paper
Tape or glue on a napkin and small paper plate and I printed a little rhyme on a label

The top left label says:

"10 Ants

Diez little hormigas
Went looking for comida
And they found..."

Then I went to Google images and found and fit onto 5160 labels various fruits we wanted to learn, as well as utensils and the word for napkin, and wrote on the Spanish word for each fruit

After the napkin, plate and labels were affixed
We used a Q-Tip to dot on 3 dots to make 10 ants, drawing on legs and antenna when they dried

Learning the Alphabet - A - English and Spanish

Draw a picture of an "A" alligator on a lake scene with a lowercase "a" to make a turtle
Use Q-Tips to dot on paint and paint the scene
We mixed colors red and yellow to make orange and blue and green to make aquamarine

Learning the Alphabet - A - English and Spanish - Apple Page

We painted the tree leave top green and let it dry

Then we painted his finger tips red and he made dots on the tree and then we added a line to make them a lowercase "a" once the paint dried

The rest of the picture he colored in with crayons and labeled the picture in English and Spanish