Once Upon A Book ~ Owl Babies

 Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

Summary:  Baby owls become worried when their mommy owl goes to look for some food.  They sit around trying to reassure each other until their mother returns.

Bible Verse:  “Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?  And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?  So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’” (Mathew 6: 27-31)

Video:  The boys thought it would be fun if we read Owl Babies to you.  It will give you a little insight into our homeschooling life, filled with numerous distractions and runny noses!

Crafts:  Owl Babies

Supplies:

• 3 toilet paper rolls
• brown paint
• yellow and brown or black construction paper
• 2-6 google eyes, depending on how many owls you make
• glue stick
• scissors
• paint brush
  

Directions:

1.  Prepare your work area and supplies.  We like to paint on our Tot Trays.  You will need to cut out a beak and a set of wings.

 

2.  Give your Tot paint, a paint brush, and a toilet paper roll.  Have them paint the toilet paper roll brown and all it to completely dry.

 

3.  Fold the top left and right side of the toilet paper roll toward each other.

Until it looks like this, with stiff peaks for the owl’s ears.

 

4.  Now give your owl some personality.  Slather a glob of glue onto the owl and help your child place the eyes, beak, and wings in the appropriate places on your owl.

5.  If you have old children, have them make the two other owls, as your Toddler might get worn out making the craft.  Encourage everyone to reenact the story. 

• To do this, I drew a tree on a manila folder and my eldest son colored it in. 

• This became an enchanted place where Sarah, Percy, and Bill came alive!

To see a variation of this craft, visit Frugal Family Fun.  

Craft:  Felt Owl (Gabe said it was the Mommy Owl.)

Supplies:

• colored felt
• scissors
• glue

Directions:

1.  Cut out the various parts for your owl.  To see the parts of the owl, head on over to Danielle’s Place for this and other owl crafts.  You will need a body, wings, various sizes of circles, a beak, and talons. 

2.  For this craft, I placed glue on the felt and had Gabe pat it down.

 

You could glue a magnet to the back and place it on your refrigerator or turn it into a money case! 

Websites:  For extra learning, we visited National Geographic for Kids and watched a video on the Snowy Owl.  Accidentally, we stumbled upon another video regarding night owls.  This second video received an abundance of, “That’s so cool!” due to several scenes of an owl finding his dinner.  (Just wanted to warn you!)

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