The Loon

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

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

Loon is a fearless diver bold,
He doesn't mind the heat or cold;
He dives and swims - oh, very far,
And then bobs up and laughs "Ha-Ha!"

 

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"To take someone under your wing" is an idiom that has it's origins in The Bible: "He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart." Psalm 91:4 - additional scriptures: Deuteronomy 32:11, Psalm 17:8, Psalm 36:7, Psalm 57:1, Psalm 61:4, Psalm 63:7, Jeremiah 49:22, Zechariah 7-9, Ruth 2:12 and Jesus' observation here in Luke 13 - "Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!" The idiom is used to reference how a person is similar to a bird mother who guards her young be covering them defensively under her wings from weather, an enemy, or any other kind of danger.

 

Bird scrap restored for students to make their own paper dolls with. Now you add the arms/legs!