YOUNG ARTISTS AND BIRDS
So much of the time, small is better. Smaller floods that come into your yard. Smaller spiders that show up in the garage. Smaller debts to pay. Smaller portions of food when you are on a diet, and so on. Kids come in that category of small is good. This week’s artists are small. Oh, to be a kid again!
We had a Kids Workshop during the Winter Bird Festival. What fun it was to be around that much enthusiasm. Part of the workshop was on bird identification, and then the kids drew and painted the birds they liked. The drawings exhibited today are some of the pictures drawn by our young artists. The drawing/painting shows the great skill level of the young artists who live in southern Utah.
Later there were classes for
kids to build bird houses and bird feeders. The noise level during the
building segment drove the adults to use cotton in their ears. Pound!
Pound! Pound! Home Depot supplied both materials and helpful
instructors. Care and forethought had the nail holes pre-drilled
beforehand, and even the smallest kids did a great job with their bird
houses. Houses and feeders are great teaching tools for kids. What
birds use them. What do not. What to feed birds. Where to put the
feeder so it will be safe from bird predators. And, what a accomplish
to do this when you are small. Thank you young artists, and young
builders for reminding us how neat it is to be small.
Click on the links below to see the other drawings:
Red-tailed Hawk - (shown on this page)
Hawk - (flying)
Bluebird - (perched in a tree)
Mallard - (standing & swimming)
Mallard - (standing)
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