Thanks to Lucinda for sending in this idea and template.

Optional:  Make a number of these birds and hang them on criss-crossed straws to make a mobile.

Materials:

• small square of tissue paper,
• a printer,
• glue,
• scissors,
• something to color with
• a piece of paper 
• Optional: wiggly eyes

Instructions:

• Print out the template.
• Color the bird and cut it out.  Color the bird blue (bluebird), red (cardinal), yellow (canary) etc to create a whole flock of different kinds of birds
• Glue on a wiggly eye or color in the eye.
• Fold a square of tissue paper, accordion style.
• Slip into the slit to make the wings.
• Hang up from the roof.

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

B&W Template only

Print friendly version of these instructions