Bird Crafts for Kids

Celebrate the return of the birds with the warmer weather with this collection of bird crafts for kids.

This cardboard roll parrot from Artsy Craftsy Mom is a cute and easy one that you could do in different ways to make different kinds of birds. (Also reminds me of a cardboard roll owl over on my website.)

Paper plates are another classic craft supply that’s perfect for turning into a bird, like this toucan from I Heart Crafty Things; or this owl from Easy Peasy and Fun; or these funky birds that are painted, feathered and otherwise decorated, from Happy Hooligans.

Speaking of funky birds, these made with paper cups from Mas and Pas are also a lot of fun. These sorts of projects are a great way to use all those little random bits in the craft box to make something really fun.

If you’ve got random bits of cardboard in your stash (maybe from cutting with your Beaver Bot?) you can use them to make birds like these from Messy Little Monster.

Or use your leftover cupcake liners to make these sweet little birds that can stand up. Get the tutorial from Our Kid Things.

You can also make a bird from craft sticks, like these little bluebirds from Artsy Momma. These are made with small craft sticks so they can be magnets, but you could make this or any other kind of bird with the larger sticks, too.

If you know me you know I love any craft with yarn, so I’m particularly attracted to these yarn-wrapped birds from Craftsy Hacks. Technically she’s using embroidery floss, but you could do the same thing with yarn, rainbow colored or otherwise. Arty Crafty Kids has another version that uses twigs for legs and is also quite cute.

I also love this idea from Three Busy Boys, which you could do with cardstock, paperboard or cardboard. She cut out the shapes and let kids color and glue on buttons, but bigger kids could make their own bird shapes. I can’t find a place to grab this template other than Pinterest, but you could use it to make a fun stand up bird if you want to go that route.

Learning numbers actually involves a few different skills, from recognizing the shape of the number and knowing the word that goes with it to understanding one to one correspondence for counting and what order the numbers go in.

A lot of this is learned best through play and activities that get kids counting and tracing and otherwise interacting with numbers. These activities can help.

I specifically mentioned tracing above because of these number formation rhymes cards from Teaching Mama, which can be used in lots of ways to practice making the shapes of the numbers, including tracing, lining up items on the number shapes (and counting them!), using playdough to shape the numbers and so on. Each number has a little rhyme to help you remember how to make it, which is cute.

And speaking of playdough, you can find lots of playdough number mats with different themes for kids to use as they learn about numbers. Preschool Play and Learn, for example, has these cute apple themed ones that also teach one to one correspondence as you learn the numbers and count to 10.

Or use these tree-themed ones from Live Over Cs to form the numbers, count out items on a ten frame and place the correct number of items in the tree to match the number (do this with playdough, little buttons or whatever manipulatives you have on hand). Your little builders will also love these Duplo number mats from Life Over Cs, which allow you to shape the number out of blocks and count out the number of blocks that corresponds to each number.

I also love these mats from The Savvy Sparrow that include the number and the word you can trace with playdough or marker, showing how to count the number on your fingers, a tens frame and a number line.

Finger plays and counting songs are lots of fun for little ones, too, and Childhood 101 has a great collection of songs and rhymes having to do with numbers (as well as printable song cards you can use with them.

This cardboard roll number chain form Hands On As We Grow would be a fun addition to singing number songs or to use in other play and counting games. And we all love something easy to make with stuff we already have.

Older kids who already know the order of numbers can also use these connect the dot number printables from Fun Learning for Kids. Or use the shapes for playdough mats or to practice tracing even for kids who don’t know all the numbers in order yet.

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