Birds of a Feather

We started this project by coming up with a character for our bird.  We would decorate our bird to become that character.  Once we finished our character, we cut out the pieces of the bird.  We had to cut out the body, wings and tail.  Then we could decorate the bird.  We could choose whatever medium we wanted.  I chose to use markers.  We had 2 requirements.  We needed to show texture in our choice of medium and with feathers.  I chose to put feathers on the tail.  Once we finished decorating, we glued on the wings and put the tail on and hung the bird up by yarn.

You could use these birds that the students made to have them put on a play.  They would use the characters they created.  In small groups, the students would write a script for their play.  Once they had the script approved by the teacher, they would perform their play in front of their classmates.  This would be for fourth or fifth grade.