Easter Birds for the Easter Garden

We'd been asked to contribute to the Easter Garden at church, part of our contribute were Easter birds. The toddlers made three birds - one big and small to take home, and an extra small to add to the Easter garden at church. They were inspired by the Happy Hooligan Birds, but are not able to have paints at toddler group therefore I adjusted the craft to our needs.

The tails were bunches of strips of paper cellotaped together for the toddlers to stick on the tails. The wing feathers were from hobbycraft - I'd cut the feathers in half as they were very big. The beaks were coloured triangles of paper and the eyes were googly eyes or baker ross sticky eyes. The bodies were cut out of coloured cardboard.

Mummy Bird: 18cm diameter

Baby Bird: 12cm diameter

Here are the birds the toddlers made ready to go into the Easter garden at church.

2016 Edit

There has been much excitment is our household last night as I said I was preparing the Easter bird craft for toddler group, imediately the two eldest (nearly 10 and 7) asked to make some as well because two years ago they spent a happy afternoon using up left over birds (their 2014 efforts are two photos above).

Immediately J started to recreate his 2014 spotty chickpox cockerel. This is a lovely craft for all ages as older children love to put extra details on such as rosy checks, eyebrows, glasses, spots and hand drawn wings.

For toddler group this year, we are using the baker ross eye stickers as it's cheaper and makes a much more characterful bird. Here are efforts this years efforts.