The Hummingbird

Assemble a mini doll sized book: Below, is the Hummingbird'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.

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

Humming Bird, the dainty thing,

Has no voice and cannot sing,

He lives daintily, and sips

Honey from the flowers' lips

Additional Authors:

HUMMINGBIRDS

       Hummingbirds are the smallest, and the most beautiful birds in creation. As they fly about wild in America and the West India Islands, one  moment they look one color and the next another; and as the hot sun shines upon them, you see bright spots of crimson, blue, violet, and emerald green, flitting through the air. Their heads and tails are often dark, but the fibers of their breast and some of their back feathers are of different colors, which shows up at various times. Their beaks are very long, and the tails of some humming-birds are also long and forked. They are called humming-birds, because as they fly through the air from shrub to shrub, to gather the sweet nectar from the flowers - they do not settle upon the flowers, but hover over them, and create a strange, humming, buzzing sound with their little wings. Henry Altemus Company.

Additional Content About Hummingbirds:

• This is hummingbird heaven
• Color these tiny hummingbirds!

Humming-Birds.

"Minutest of the feathered kind,

Possessing every charm combined,

Nature in forming thee, designed

That thou shouldst be

"A proof within how little space

She can comprise such perfect grace,

Rendering the lovely fairy race

Beauty's epitome.

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How to Fold a Humming Bird 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.

Sample of hummingbird paper chain.

 

Hummingbird template.