The Mockingbird

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

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

Mocking Bird is very clever,

Uses her own notes hardly ever,

But saucily sings bits of song

Which to the other birds belong.

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   "The paper Mockingbird below looks like the real one, and even made of paper he is charming.

   The live Mockingbird's home is in the South, but once in a while he is seen as far north as Connecticut. You will sometimes find him in a cage; and in the bird-house at the New York Zoological Park he flies about and sings-how he does sing! And he sings at night as well as in the day.

   In his southern home he generally builds his nest in a thicket; but sometimes you may find it in the garden, and  it will be near enough to the ground for you to look into. Perhaps it will be loosely made of twigs and small roots. The eggs in ti will be a bluish green with spots of brown. 

   The Mockingbird is cousin to the Wren and the Catbird." 

 

To make the American Mocking Bird stand-up on it's own: Cut out the bird, wings and stand once these have been colored. Cut a slit A in wings and slit A in back. Bend out lower part of the stand on bird and lower part of half-stand along dotted lines. Paste upper part of half stand to upper part of stand on bird. Paste bottom of stand on stiff paper and cut the paper off around the stand. Slide slit A in wings into slit A in back as far as it will go. Bend down wings a little.

 

A Beard Bird pattern for the American Mocking Bird Doll.

 

The Mocking-Bird by Wilde

Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe;

Thou sportive satirist of nature's school;

To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe,

Arch-mocker, and Mad About of Misrule.

For such thou art by day; but all night long

Thou pour'st soft, sweet, pensive, solemn strain,

As if thou didst in this thy moonlight song

Like to the melancholy Jaques complain,

Musing on falsehood, folly, vice, and wrong,

And sighing for they motley coat again.