The Cockatoo

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

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

 Said fussy Madam Cockatoo:
"I always find enough to do;
I'm such a busy, useful dame,
I know these folks are glad I came."

Additional Authors:

 

A PARROT THAT WAS ALMOST HUMAN

       During the government of Prince Maurice in Brazil, he had heard of an old Parrot that was much celebrated for answering like a rational creature many of the common questions put to it. It was at a great distance; but so much had been said about it that the prince's curiosity was roused, and he  directed it to be sent for. When it was introduced into the room where the prince was sitting, in company with several Dutchmen, it immediately exclaimed in the Brazilian language, "What a company of white men are here! " They asked it, "Who is that man?" (pointing to the prince). The Parrot answered, "Some general or other." When the attendants carried it up to him, he asked it, through the medium of an interpreter (for he was ignorant of its language), "Whence do you come?" The Parrot answered, "From Marignan." The prince asked, "To whom do you belong?" It answered, "To a Portuguese." He asked again, "What do you there?" It answered, "I look after chickens." The prince laughing, exclaimed, "You look after chickens!" The Parrot in answer said, "Yes, I; and I know well enough how to do it; " clucking at the same time in imitation of the noise made by the hen to call together her young.
       The prince afterwards observed that although the Parrot spoke in a language he did not understand, yet he could not be deceived, for he had in the room both a Dutchman who spoke Brazilian, and a Brazilian who spoke Dutch; that he asked them separately and privately, and both agreed exactly in their account of the Parrot's discourse. Henry Altemus Company.

 

Gossiping parrots.

 

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How to Fold a Parrot Paper Chain

Two important tips to remember: the longer the paper the more often the design repeats.
The thinner the paper, the easier it is to cut.

Directions:

1. Measure the length and height of your template in order to determine how much paper you will need before folding it.
2. Use and accordion fold to prepare the paper before cutting.
3. Trace the design so that two sides touch opposite each other along the folds of the paper.
4. Cut away the negative spaces around your design.

What the parrot paper chain might look like when cut.

Parrot paper template.