The Sandpiper

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

 

Sandpiper lives beside the water
Withe her little son and daughter;
Shows the cunning little brood
Exactly where to look for food.

 

Additional Authors:

 

Plovers march in time on the beach. Like the Sandpiper, Plovers are shore birds.

 THE PLOVERS LEARN TO DRILL

"Eyes front! Shoulder wings! Quick march!" said General Baby Plover to his brothers. " Hurry now, run your hardest, and hide where you can quickly."
       The Baby Plovers did run their hardest, and hid themselves behind stones in such a way that no one could tell which was a Baby Plover or which was a stone, because the Baby Plovers were so much like stones to look at.
       General Baby Plover taught them this so that naughty little boys
should not find their nests and carry them away.
       Thus they spent many happy days running down to the water and catching small fish to carry home for their mamma's supper, and as soon as they saw a naughty boy in the distance, they became like soldiers again, and. hid among the stones. Henry Altemus Company.

Plovers catching small fish to eat.

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More About Shore Birds:

• Here are some shore birds for coloring
• Read about the Herring Gull
• Students can color a crane and it's dinner
• Learn about the bitterns
• Japanese Crane Coloring Page