See the course info at ‘August Art Adventurers’
Hello and welcome to 'Brilliant Birds’ - our theme for Week 3!
This week we will be learning all about the beautiful birds around us.
Activity Sheet 1
Bird Species Silhouettes
There are over 600 species of birds that can be seen in the UK!
These include birds that we might find in parks and gardens, woodland birds, and freshwater birds living on our canals, lakes and rivers. There are also coastal birds that live by the sea, and their are birds of prey like hawks, owls and many more!
The activity sheet below shows silhouettes of some birds you might recognise. Can you match the silhouette to the name of the bird it belongs to?
Activity Sheet 2
Brilliant Bird Anatomy
Birds are all sorts of shapes and sizes, with lots of different colours, patterns and beak shapes. But there are a few things they all have in common! These include:
Head
Throat (with songbox)
Chest
Belly or abdomen
Two wings
Two legs
Toes with claws
Tail
Can you label the picture below with the parts of the bird’s body? We call this their ‘anatomy’.
If you want more of a challenge you could draw your own picture and then label this, or look up the scientific names for the parts of the bird’s body.
Activity Sheet 3
Paper Bird Of Prey
Cut out this bird of prey, and fold along the dotted lines. Decorate the pieces and glue the tail and and wings to the body to complete your bird!
Which bird of prey will your model look like? A Buzzard, Kestral, Osprey or Marsh Harrier?
Did you know…
There are 21 species of birds of prey found in the UK, and five of these are owls!
Activity Sheet 4
Beautiful Birds’ Eggs
Birds are amazing as their young develop inside eggs that are laid by a female. They are mostly laid in a nest of some form, and are then incubated - for many bird species this means they are kept warm by being sat on by the parents who have warm bodies, and so warm up the eggs. Only one chick is born from each egg, but some bird species will lay a lot of eggs - the Grey Partridge will often lay around 20 eggs at once! The largest birds eggs in the world are Ostrich eggs which are about 15cm long!
Below are some examples of the eggs of British birds.
You can use Activity Sheet 4 to design your own eggs. Will they have patterns or markings? What colours will you choose?
Looking at the examples above might also help to give you some ideas.
Nature Journal Week 3
This week’s Nature Journal activities
Let’s keep working on our Nature Journals!
Have you filled in the last two weeks pages? What did you enjoy? Send us photos of your Nature Journals so we can share your hard work in our gallery!
This week your Nature Journal activities are to:
Use this page to draw the birds you see in parks, gardens or other wild spaces. Can you name any of them?
What you think the birdsong you hear would look like if you tried to write to down? Using this sheet write down the sounds you hear this week and then put them together into a ‘Birdsong Song’.
The feathers we find on the ground are clues to the birds that live around us! Use these pages of your Nature Journal to draw the feathers you find, and write down which species of bird you think they may have belonged to.
We hope you really enjoy your third week of August Art Adventurers!
Don’t forget to take a photo of anything you make this week and email it to us at librarian@thelibraryofnature.com, and remember to fill in your August Art Adventurers poster and get your badge (find it here!)