The Baltimore Oriole

Collect all pages-cleaned and sized to make a miniature
book for your dolls.

 Baltimore Oriole, pretty thing,
Builds his nest of bits of string;
He's sociable and likes to stay
Where people live and children play.

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Left, is the Baltimore Oriole's illustration and verse. Visitors can collect all the bird illustrations and verse from "Bird Children" to print and construct a small book of verse for their dolls. Simply drag each png. into a Word Document, print, cut out all of the images the same size and staple the pages together at the left edge. Squeeze out some white school glue along the stapled edge of the pages and attach a cardboard cover.

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 Directions for Making and Flying Paper Bird

       Cut out carefully the bird, the bird's head and the parts A, B, C, AA and AB, following the black lines, being sure not to tear the paper.
       From a piece of cardboard, about the thickness of a writing tablet back, cut out the three pieces like patterns A, B, and C. These are used to reinforce the front edges of the wings and stiffen the head and also to give the bird the proper balance to fly.
       Paste the long piece of cardboard A down over the front edge AA and AB shown on the bird. When this is dry, fold the bird down along the center dotted line, bending the cardboard with care, so as not to break it. Then bend the wings outwore along the dotted lines to a horizontal position.
       When these are dry, paste the underside of the flaps AA and AB down in their respective places over the cardboard A so the toothed edges project out in front. These edges are then turned under and pasted up against the underside of the wings, like Figure 2. Make sure they thoroughly stick to each wings. Now paste the inside of the heads and slip them up on each side of the cardboard C, flush with the edges and up snugly against the bird's body. The bird is now finished and should look like Figure 3.
       Be sure both wings are even, as the bird will not fly straight if one wing is turned up and the other down.
       Hold the bird underneath at the front, between the thumb and forefinger, with the head pointing slightly downward, and then give a steady push, letting to at the same time. If it dives, bend the tail planes upward slightly at the rear edges. If it turns to one side, bend the rear edge of the wing on the opposite side to which it turned, upward.
       This bird will do more ten a live bird, because it will loop and come back to you and will also do all sorts of flips.

The Baltimore Oriole by Percy Pierce.

   

       Young students may enjoy crafting a stained glass cut-out of a parrot. Below is a sample of what the project could look like after gluing bright, colorful tissue papers to a template cut from black construction paper.  Or, simply print the template out in black and white and color it in with crayons or paint it in with finger paints... 

 

Sample oriole in stained glass design.

  

The template of the oriole here is in the Creative Commons.