The Chickadee

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

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Right, is the Chickadee'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.

Friendly little Chickadee

Is just as cunning as can be;

Upon your window - sill he'll come

And thank you kindly for a crumb.

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To color the Chickadee Template below: Crown, nape and throat black. Upper gray, slightly tinged with brown. A white space, beginning at base of bill, extends backward, widening over cheeks and upper part of breast, forming a sort of collar that almost surrounds the neck. Underneath, dirty white with pale, rusty brown washes on sides. Wings and tail are gray, with white edgings.

 

Above is a paper Chickadee doll template.

        Watch the video below to see just "how" to color your own chickadee to fly about your room. Then cut out and assemble the bird using school glue. Bend down the two taps on the wings and glue these to either side of the bird body. Cut along the solid straight line shown at the inside edge of the tail feathers and slip this onto the end of the paper bird body. Secure all the pieces with glue and then tape a piece of thread between the wings to hang your paper chickadee from the ceiling.

Black Capped Chickadee foraging for seeds...

A Little Bird. by E.R.C.

A little Bird in a tree

Made one-a man and maiden three.

'Twas not by chance that they had met!

"None see," they said; one can forget

A little Bird.

A long hot road, a strip of grass,

'Twould tempt the Fates to let it pass!

Two people linger in the walk;

There's only one to hear them talk,

A little Bird.

Long shadows stretched across the sky,

Two people parted with a sigh,

But there was no one there to see!

How do I know? and who told me?

A little Bird.