If you follow us on facebook, you’ve likely heard our exciting news! Mama robin has nested on our deck, and her babies hatched yesterday! Two of them hatched in the morning, and I was absolutely blessed with perfect timing last evening when I went out to check on them. I climbed up on the bench, held the camera high over my head, aiming it into the nest and snapped a picture. I never know what I’m going to get because the nest is so high. I can’t see into it. I just hold the camera up and shoot. I was absolutely over the moon when I hopped down and looked at the picture and discovered that I’d captured this shot: Baby #3 emerging from it’s egg!
If you haven’t seen the other pictures yet, please pop over to my Happy Hooligans facebook page, and check out the album titled “our baby robins”. I will update the album daily as we watch the babies grow and develop.
This afternoon, we had a few extra minutes before home-time so we made this easy cardboard rockin’ robin in honour of our babies.
Cut a circle out of brown cardstock or a cereal box. Fold your circle in half and press along the crease.
Glue crumpled pieces of red or orange tissue paper on to the robin’s tummy. Add an eye, and a yellow triangle beak.
Cut a few tail feathers, and you’re done! 
Now, when you set your robin on a flat surface, and give it a little tap, it will “rock”.
If we’d had more time, we would have made some smaller robins to go along with this Mama. Maybe tomorrow. 
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you are the best.
Aww, thanks for being so sweet, Janire!
You have so many adorable crafts that I’ll never run out of things to do with my little flowers (children)! Even my nine year old likes to get in on all the simple crafts (even the rainbow rice). We have to give the cute rockin robin a go to.
Blessings,
April
Thanks, April! I’m always tickled to hear that our simple ideas are inspiring others! So glad you take the time to craft with your little ones. xo
So cute. Perfect to go with your real baby robins. Such a gift to respect nature and cherish it and you are teaching your hooligans the importance of it all. Thanks for helping to raise these children. I hope their parents appreciate you.
Thanks, Melissa. I consider myself truly fortunate to spend my days with them. It goes both ways.
I’m really blessed to work with fantastic families as well, and they never fail to let me know how much they appreciate the things that we do here. I really do have such an awesome job xo
aww this craft is really cute. We have baby birds right now too. Spring is so fun with all of the little babies being born.
Lucky you, Amber! Enjoy your babies!
This bird is great. I’ve added it to Pinterest, hope that’s ok, let me know if you’d rather I removed it.
Not at all! Please pin and share!
Baby robins would be adorable!
They would be! I thought so too, Katey, but we didn’t quite get around to making some.