The Eave Swallow

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

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Left, is the Eave Swallow'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.

Eave Swallow, in his nest of clay,
Always has lots of things to say;
He and his brothers, often race,
Catching the insects 'round the place.

 

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"A Home Bird" is an idiom referring to a person who spends much of their time at home or whom always socializes from a home-base.

 

The following templates of flying birds and a birdhouse may be used to decorate the classroom or home in a variety of ways. Tape these after coloring to a window, wall or bulletin board to teach your young students about the birds. Download and print, trace and cut, color and mount, it's so much fun for children to learn about the birds with these templates.

 

Birds in flight and a birdhouse template. See birdhouse clip art here.

The Swallows' Return

Swallows are returning fast,

Over wide seas they have past;

'Neath the eaves they build their nest,

Sing as they from labor rest.

March, O March, thou snowst amin;

February comes with rain;

April, sweetest of the year,

Coming is, and he is near.

Twitter all the birds and sing,

All the little trees do spring;

Hens lay eggs, and O, good luck!

Already they begin to cluck.

Flocks and herds, a numerous train,

To hilly pastures mount again;

Goats that skip and leap an play,

Nibbling wayside shrub's green spray.

Beasts and birds an men rejoice,

With one heart and with one voice;

Frosts are gone, and snow-wreaths deep,

Blustering Boreas fallen asleep.

From ''Greeek Folk Songs,'' Garnett