Toddler Art: Feather Fun

I liked how Feathers forLunch by Lois Ehlert was just the right amount of length for toddlers and easy for them to understand. The crafts went wonderfully with the book.

For our first craft, I had the kids paint a bird, add feathers, and glue it onto a popsicle stick to make puppets. For the second craft, they glued different colored feathers onto cardstock with the cat from the story on it. I scanned a picture from the book and cropped to get the craft base. Both of these crafts looked artistic and allowed them to practice with painting and gluing.

For this group, I always use pom poms attached to clothespins for painting tools instead of paint brushes. We had a bit of playtime afterwards too.

Other Books:

Hooray for Birds! by Lucy Cousins (movement book)

A Funny Little Bird by Jennifer Yerkes (birds/nature)

Preschool Picasso: Feathers

This was a fun Preschool Picasso and it was the first time we used feathers. The kids were more than eager to paint and had fun using the feathers and playing with them. They were a bit antsy during the book, but still were able to listen to most of it. We read Bamboo and Friends: The Feathers by Felicia Law. 

For our first craft, we painted a parrot on cardstock just like the parrots in the book. I put out four different colors of paint and then they glued different colored feathers onto the tail.

For our second craft, we made headdresses just like the animals wore in the story. We decorated them with crayons, markers, and stickers. I purposely avoided paint with this craft so no one would get paint in their hair.

Other Books:

Feathers for Lunch by Lois Ehlert

The Perfect Purple Feather by Hanoch Piven

Hooray for Birds! by Lucy Cousins

Chicken Chuck by Bill Martin Jr.

Cuckoo by Lois Ehlert

A Bird Is a Bird by Lizzy Rockwell

Honk, Honk! Hold Tight! by Jessica Souhami

Plume by Isabelle Simler

Silly Dilly Duckling by Claire Freedman

Finn's Feather by Rachel Noble

Hamsters to the Rescue by Ellen Stoll Walsh

The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth

A Funny Little Bird by Jennifer Yerkes

Feathers for Peacock by Jacqueline Jules

Borka by John Burningham