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It also helps them be able to just dip one end of each feather in the glue.Ĥ Variations and/or adaptations for different ages: To prevent this, I squeeze a puddle of glue onto a plastic or aluminum pie plate, and children use their fingers or a Q-tip to spread the glue where needed. This project needs white glue, and many children have a hard time not getting great globs of it everywhere. (credit for this idea goes to a third grader!)ĭisplay these owl collages where everyone can enjoy the uniqueness of each creation!

Use quite a bit of glue and as it dries, it’ll begin to show the black paper through it, looking quite moon-like.

Cut out a moon from a paper towel and glue in place.Glue the eyes in the center of the facial disks and glue these to the head along with the beak. These facial disks of feathers surround the eyes of many owls and help reflect light to the eyes. After you have the head feathered, (I didn’t add those feathers, but put the disks where they’d do over the head feathers), you may want to cut circles from one of the painted papers and fringe these around the edges.When you get to where you want a branch, glue it down and glue more feathers and the talons on top of it.Starting at the bottom of the owl and working up, glue the feathers to cover the owls’ body and head, overlapping these and only gluing the top portion of each feather so they look 3-D.Tear the brown and gray papers into feathers.Draw and cut out eyes, beak, and talons.Notice the owl’s head is quite round, while a fat leaf shape can be used for the body.

On a black paper, use the yellow colored pencil to sketch an owl sitting on the branch of a tree.For a branch, color and cut a thin strip of brown paper.Open up the tube and glue to the side of the black paper as the tree trunk.When done coloring, roll the paper as if making a tube and gently crush it together all along its length. For the tree trunk, cut a piece of brown paper that will stretch from top to bottom of the black paper and add texture to it with crayons.Do the same with brown and white paint on another paper.You may also dip a brush or fork in the pure black or white and add a variety of marks for more texture. For texture, don’t blend these too much on the paper. Try to get a variety of dark and light grays. On a light-colored paper, blend whites and blacks to cover the paper.In painting we often try to give an impre ssion of texture with thick paint or with different kinds of marks. Texture, how an object feels to the touch, such as its roughness, smoothness, fuzziness, etc. Black, white, and brown tempera paint (no brown paint? Just mix blue, yellow, and red as I did to make brown.

Construction paper in blacks, tans, browns, yellows, and whites.

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An update about the Cliff Swallows of San Juan Capistrano.

4 Ways this activity aids children’s mental, physical, and social development.

3 Art elements and design principles children will learn.

4 Variations and/or adaptations for different ages.

The more they looked and learned, the more they saw God’s wonderful design and diversity! You and your children will love making owl collages, too. They learned these things because we looked carefully to first draw and then make an owl collage. We saw that an owl’s head is much rounder than many birds. They learned that big owl eyes see really well at night, that owl feathers help them fly silently, and that extra-long owl necks help them rotate their heads as much as 270 degrees. Recently my 3 rd grade art class studied owls for an art project.

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