Birds, 10/09/10

Find the bird

Scatter pictures of birds around the room- give the Beavers a list of bird names - see who can match them up

Chat about birds

Game:  Birds can fly

The Beavers face the leader who calls out ‘Birds can fly’

The Beavers flap their arms and move around the room

The leader continues to call out animals that cannot fly eg ‘Pigs can fly’

Anyone who continues to flap their arms when non-flying animals are named is out

Game: Birds Have Feathers

One player is leader.  He and all the others flap their arms like birds.  He calls out names of something with feathers.  If a player flaps his wings on a calling that doesn't have feathers he's out.  The leader flaps his wings on almost all things to confuse the group and calls as rapidly as possible.  "Birds have feathers, bats have feathers, babies have feathers, etc.

Craft Bases: Bird mobile

Make a bird shape template and let the Beavers cut out the birds and decorate with tissue and feather (make about 5 each)

Suspend from a pair of garden canes (fastened in a cross)

Game: Feather blowing

Feather per group of 4 Beavers

See who can keep the feather in the air the longest

Craft: Bird Feeder

Equipment:

Scissors
String
- Hoop shaped breakfast cereal
- Lengths of string or garden twine (about 30 cms works well, but could be longer)
- Small pieces of twig or pegs

Instructions:

- Tie one end of the string to a piece of twig.
- Thread the breakfast cereal on to the string or twine, the twig stops it falling off the other end!
- When the string is full, tie the free end to the twig to make a loop shape which can be hung in a tree.

Additional Information:

- Allow plenty of extra cereal as the young people love eating it.
- Check for any allergies, especially nuts.

Game: Jamaquack

Jamaquacks are rare birds from Australia .  Being from down under, they always stand bent over, with their hands grasping their calves or ankles and shuffle along backward.  They are nocturnal by preference, and when they are out in daylight, they always try to wander off somewhere; only a third of the players can be jamaquacks at a time.  The rest must form a jamaquack pen by holding hands in a circle facing the center.  Two players create a hole in the pen by dropping their hands.  The jamaquacks gather in the middle of the pen, heads together and begin quacking and moving backward with their eyes closed, trying to find the way out.  While the birds are trying to escape, those forming the circle do their best to jam the quacks back inside the pen by GENTLY knee-bumping them.  Once outside the circle the jamaquacks can finally stand upright and open their eyes but they should keep quacking to let their species mated locate the hole.

Thankyou for the beast so tall

Thankyou for the creatures small

Thankyou for the things that live

Thankyou God for all you give