National Wild Bird Feeding Month

Create a Bird
Science/Art/Language Arts When working with a unit on birds, invite students to create a new bird. Their bird must have a beak, wings, two feet and a body. After completing their bird, students write about their bird including its name, eggs, call, interesting habits and what it likes to eat.

Flying Bird Fact-Finds
Have your students create this craft where they can display information about backyard birds on 3-D bird mobiles.

Feeding Friends
Science During Wild Bird Feeding Month, lots of different bird feeding techniques can be tried, from peanut butter and seeds on pinecones to an old piece of netting tied and filled with seeds, nuts or fruit. But remember the easy things too – put some bread crust on the window sill or a few pieces of popcorn (popped or unpopped) at the base of a tree. Encourage your students to come up with other low-cost ideas to feed feathered friends.

Bird Feeders
Using this lesson students will learn how to make bird feeders while also learning how to observe and record data on birds coming to their feeders.

Seeds of Friendship
Science Find somewhere around your school building where students can leave gifts of seeds for the birds during February in honor of National Bird Feeding Month. Try to find a spot near a window, so students can observe visiting birds and record their visits.