Paper Plate Owl

This little craft was simple, inexpensive and fun.

When my son had been working on his Owl project I had been looking online for information and resources for him to use and I came across this Owl Paper Plate Craft on the Enchanted Learning Website.

When he complete his Owls Lapbook I thought it would be nice to finish off with a bit of art and craft, and all the kids got involved.

To make the Owl, you need three paper plates. (You can visit the link above for full illustrated instructions) Use one for the body, one for the head, cuting out a small section to make eartufts and the third plate is to be cut in half to make wings. I stapled the plates in their relative positions because it’s so much easier than glue and you don’t have to wait for it to dry.

I then made various shades of brown paint and cut up some sponges and the kids dabbed the paint all over their paper plate owls. While they were drying the older kids helped to cut out feet shapes and beak shapes using yellow card.

When the paint was dry, they glued on feet and using a black pen, drew nostrils onto the beak before gluing that on too. Finally I cut out some ovals from white card and the kids used black pen to draw the eyes and glued them onto the owl’s head.

Owls Lapbook

Last year I was going through a “stubborn” phase with my son and was having trouble getting him enthusiastic about doing his work. So I  decided to give him the choice to do a project on whatever subject he liked and he chose to do a mini project about owls.

We used the internet to do some research and I found some nice fact sheets online. After researching I also created my own fact sheets and question and answer sheets.

The first pages look at owls in general. Where they live, what they eat, how they hunt, the different families of owls, etc.

I made sure to include lots of pictures and colouring pages.

This is one page of a ‘missing word’ fact sheet that I put together. My son had to read through the paragraphs and fill in the relevant missing words.

I gave my son a factsheet about Barn Owls and then he used it complete the question and answer worksheets in his own words.

Here is the factsheet and question and answer pages on the Snowy Owl.

I also included some World maps so that my son could write about and colour the countries where certain species of owl can be found.

This was a nice dot to dot colouring activity.

Next up were some fact sheets and question and answer sheets on Screech Owls.

I also included some blank boxes for my son to add in his own details. In the photo above you can see he drew some Screech Owl eggs.

Some more maps and a nice symmetry activity which tied in nicely since we had recently covered symmetry during our maths lessons.

Some more fact sheets and question and answer sheets, this time on Long-eared Owls. It also includes a neatly coloured picture of a Long-eared Owl in which my son made sure he paid attention to detail to created the speckled pattern on the owl’s chest.

I also created an Owl Fact Crossword activity which my son enjoyed completing.

If you would like to download the worksheets to make a similar project, you will find my worksheets available here on the Teaching Ideas Website.

Bird World Lapbook

After a day trip with their grandparents to Bird World in Farnham, Surrey, UK, my older two children worked together to make a lapbook all about the different birds we saw at the wildlife centre.

We kept a map of the centre as a souvenir to put into the first page of the lapbook.

We used the map to recall our journey around the wildlife centre and then the kids dedicated a page to each of the different types of birds we saw. We took alot of photos of the birds as we went round and we also googled some photos to add to the pages.

We searched on the internet to find out facts about each of the birds, such as their habitat, where they can be found in the world, when and how they nest, what they eat, etc.

We also added in maps and flags to show where each species of bird are found in the world.

I found some nice bird colouring pages for the kids to print and colour to add to their lapbook.

They used the photos to help them colour the pictures.

Now we have a nice book that helps us remember our wonderful day out as well as helps us to recall interesting and amazing facts about many different species of birds from all around the world.