We will be celebrating International Bird Day very soon. Help your child find out what birds exist, teach how to make crafts, costumes of winged creatures. International Bird Day - April 1st. In children's institutions at this time, various events are held dedicated to this holiday. Parents sew appropriate costumes for children, make crafts on this topic with them.
Bird Day - scenario
After reviewing it, it will be easier for parents to come up with a costume for their child, and teachers will find out what game and cognitive tasks can be included in the event program.
The hall is decorated accordingly. You can put homemade birches, decorate walls and windows with twigs to create a forest atmosphere. There are many bird songs. The teacher turns on one of them, the guys enter the hall to the music.
They are wearing matching suits. Someone represents a woodpecker, a cuckoo, a dove, a sparrow, a swan.
The presenter says riddles, the answer will be the character of some child. Children should find out and answer which bird is meant.
The next competition sounds like “Names of Birds”. The presenter asks questions, the guys must guess a specific bird. Here's a rough list of questions:
- Why was the cuckoo named that way (because it makes a "cuckoo" sound).
- What act influenced the fact that the group of birds was called sparrows (these birds eat grain and seeds and tried to eat them where people cultivated the harvest. Therefore, the workers shouted "Thief-bey!").
- Why is the magpie called white-sided (because it has white sides).
- For which the bird was nicknamed the pika (it is wailing, as if it is squeaking).
The next activity will allow the children to warm up. So include it for bird day in your script. All you need for this contest is:
- buckets;
- baskets;
- ball.
The game is called Feed the Birds.
The containers are placed at a certain distance. Children take turns to hit them with a small ball. There are three attempts for each participant. For one hit, 1 point is assigned, at the end of the competition the results are summed up, the winner is selected.
The next task is intellectual. Cards with pictures of birds and pictures of food for them should be prepared. In addition to him, you need to prepare the wrong cards, which will depict what the birds cannot eat. For example, salt, black bread.
Two cards will depict millet and simple. Children should put photographs of waxwings, sparrows, siskins, oatmeal, and goldfinches on this bulk food. Since these birds are very fond of this cereal.
Children will put photos with waxwing and bullfinch on cards with images of elderberry, mountain ash, bird cherry. These birds love these berries.
Nuthatch, titmouse, woodpecker should be placed on melon and watermelon seeds. And next to dry twigs of nettle, quinoa and burdock, place bullfinch, goldfinch, titmouse, siskin.
And sunflower seeds are very fond of nuthatches, tits, bullfinches, sparrows.
The next game is mobile, called "Gathering of Birds". Children in feathered costumes are called. One bird guard is chosen. Others at this time at their meeting must decide important issues. As soon as a stranger appears near the group, the guard must give a voice, imitating the singing or cry of the very bird in which he is dressed.
On bird day in kindergarten, the scenario may include suggested calm and active games, as well as others.
How to quickly sew a woodpecker costume for Bird Day?
You don't have to be an experienced dressmaker to do this, you can make it in a couple of hours, using an easy idea.
To make such a costume, take existing clothes as a basis. These are black pants and a turtleneck or T-shirt of the same color. You will also need:
- light red fabric;
- white dense fabric;
- red butterfly bow;
- seven red buttons;
- threads;
- scissors;
- needle.
Cut out the breast from a dense white fabric, use scissors to make 7 slots in it, these loops must be overcast. But if the fabric is of the type of drape or fleece, you do not need to do this.
Fold the white canvas in half, draw a semicircle at the bottom. Cut it out in a zigzag motion.
Draw a pattern in the shape of a cone or sharp triangle. Apply it to the front of the wings, circle. Paint the space between these shapes with black marker, leaving the triangles white.
To make the woodpecker costume further, these wings need to be sewn to the sleeves of the T-shirt and the back of its neck. The child will put on black boots on his feet, and a hat needs to be sewn on his head. Thick knitwear is suitable for this product. You can use leggings or an old sweater. As you can see in the pattern, the hat has four gussets. In this case, three need to be cut from red fabric, and the fourth front one from black.
Cut out the eyes from the white canvas, paint over the pupils with a black marker or sew on buttons.
Make the beak from a folded sheet of cardboard, which is painted over or pasted over with a brown, gray cloth.
DIY sparrow costume for Bird Day
It will also come in handy on International Bird Day. There are easy options for making and such an outfit.
For him, take:
- t-shirt;
- brown cloth;
- beige and dark gray tulle;
- gum.
Manufacturing instruction:
- Cut the T-shirt to give it a vest shape. From tulle, cut into ribbons 5 cm wide, sew each in the middle, while smocking.
- You can stitch these ribbons onto a rectangle of fabric, make wings by tying the sewn ribbons around your neck. Or sew them together, and only then stitch them to a vest from a T-shirt.
- For a skirt, a rectangular canvas is taken. On top of it you need to tuck it twice, stitch it off. Pass the elastic here, measured along the girl's waist. At the bottom, the skirt is hemmed and decorated with a lighter strip of tulle.
If you only have brown fabric, make a sparrow costume out of it as well. To do this, you need to sew a sleeveless jacket, cut out two wings and a tail. The bottom and each feather are indicated with a stitch that is lighter than the fabric.
The hat is made in the form of a cap with a visor; you can take a ready-made headdress of a suitable color. Lush shorts must be gathered at the bottom with an elastic band.
If you need to quickly make a sparrow costume, then put on a brown skirt on the girl, and on the boy trousers of the same color, which are tied up from below or elastic bands are inserted here. On a white turtleneck, you can sew a lace light collar or tie a frill, quickly sew wavy wings from a brown canvas.
All that remains is to make a sparrow mask. She will need the following materials:
- colored white paper;
- glue;
- cardboard;
- ruler;
- scissors;
- pencil;
- elastic.
Take white paper and fold the sheet in half. Draw a circle on one side and a circle for the eye inside. Draw feathers on the outer edge.
Unfold the mask, try it on the child. At this stage, you can correct something. Now this template needs to be put on brown cardboard, cut out the base of the sparrow mask from it.
Draw an equilateral triangle on the cardboard, leave an edge for gluing this part to the mask. Cut out the beak and bend it at the locations indicated by the dotted lines on the diagram.
On top of this blank, you need to glue light brown paper. Use glue to attach the beak to the mask.
On the 1st and 2nd sides of this part, you need to make small holes, stretch the elastic band here and tie its edges. If you want to make a bright bird costume, then take the next master class into service.
Prepare:
- fabric, pleasant to the touch;
- bright flaps;
- for strings - soft ribbons;
- threads to match.
Draw two triangles with a semicircular edge on a base fabric that will fit nicely to the baby's body.
Overcast the edges of these blanks. Make feathers from bright patches, the height of these parts is 5 cm. But it is most convenient to cut strips of fabric, making their edges wavy.
Put the prepared strip on the base of one wing, on the bottom row, sew it on. You will do the same with the second wing. Gradually moving upstairs, attach other decorated colored ribbons.
To connect these two pieces, sew a strip of fabric on top, it should be long enough for the child to tie these wings around his neck. On the remaining free upper part of the wings, wash the remaining feathers.
According to this template, you can sew an outfit of almost any bird for the holiday of Bird Day. You just need to take the flaps of the appropriate color. If you are making a sparrow costume, then use cuts of brown and gray fabric.
The same goes for the mask, matching colors will help make it for different birds. Here are the materials from which you will assemble this piece of the costume, from:
- felt;
- rubber bands;
- thread.
To make the mask the correct size, gently place a rectangle of paper towel over the child's face. Determine where the slits for the eyes will be, how long and how wide this part should be.
Transfer the pattern to the fabric and cut it out.
You will need two such blanks to fit a triangular nose cut out of felt between them.
Mark the elastic to fit the child's face. If it is thin, tie knots at both ends. Paste these places into the sides of the mask. Sew around the edges.
If you want to decorate it, then from green and blue felt you can cut out the same leaves as in the sample in the photo. On the day of birds in kindergarten or at school, it is quite possible to put on similar masks on children of elementary grades.
Of course, how can you do without themed crafts on a day like this? They can be used to decorate the venue of the event, donate to each other or take it to the competition.
We make crafts for the Day of Birds
To make a bird in a nest, take:
- colored paper;
- balloon;
- thick brown threads;
- paper napkins;
- PVA glue;
- scissors.
To make a winged creature, roll small and large balls from a napkin, drag them with threads of the same color to fix. Glue the resulting head and body to each other, cut oval feathers from colored paper and attach them to the future bird with glue.
From colored cardboard you need to cut out paws, beak and eyes for birds. While the glue dries, make a nest for this character. To do this, you need to wrap the inflated balloon with threads. It is preliminarily greased with glue.
When the yarn is dry, the ball is pierced with a needle, the blank of threads frozen in this position is cut into two halves.
Place straw or yarn similar to this material in the resulting nest. Loose satin ribbons can be used. Tie the nests to ropes and hang them on the trees, which are also made by hand.
Thus, you can decorate the hall in which the Bird Day in the kindergarten will be held.
Also, the children can be offered to make these birds out of cotton pads, so that they can then play a small performance with the participation of birds.
First take:
- cotton pads;
- wooden skewers;
- glue;
- plastic eyes;
- scissors;
- colored paper.
To make one bird, you need to take four discs, one of which is cut in half. Place a wooden skewer between two whole cotton pads, gluing these elements together.
Cut the beak out of colored paper, glue it and the eyes on your face. Attach the cotton pad halves as the bird's wings. Let the kids decorate their creations with colored ribbon.
The following craft will come in handy for the competition. It will require:
- the cloth;
- paper;
- threads;
- synthetic winterizer;
- buttons;
- braid.
On paper, draw a craft blank consisting of a torso and a wing.
Fold the prepared fabric in half, circle the resulting pattern. In this case, the halves must be connected with a pair of pins so that they do not move when cutting and sewing.
The wings can be made from the same fabric or from a different fabric.
To hang the bird later, insert a piece of tape of the appropriate size between the two blanks. Sew these parts together on the wrong side, leaving a small free space at the bottom of the tail. Turn the bird through it, straightening the corners with a skewer or pencil.
Stuff the feathery padding polyester over this edge, sew these places with a blind seam. Using a thread and a needle, embroider the bird's eyes, and attach the wings using a decorative stitch.
Sew a button on the tip of the tail of the craft, after which the hand-made bird is ready.
You can also use such creations to decorate the venue of the holiday. Prepare for it in advance, include interesting quizzes and games for children in the scenario of the celebration of Bird Day. Help the children fall in love with these animals, teach them to guard and feed them in the cold season.
So that the child fully understands how to make crafts for Bird Day, look at this process with him.
Your beloved child will also certainly want to make a fabulous Firebird from napkins and plasticine, especially since the process of rolling colored paper balls is very exciting.
The following photo gallery will help you make flashcards for the International Bird Day quiz.
The following video will help you quickly make a black crow mask. The idea will come in handy not only on International Bird Day, but also for a themed party, a matinee in kindergarten or for staging a performance.
