This paper robin craft is a fun and easy bird craft for toddlers and preschoolers. Set your mama and baby robins on a flat surface and give them a tap to watch them rock back and forth.
A Mama robin has nested on our deck, and her babies hatched yesterday!
Two of them hatched in the morning, and I was 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 over the moon when I hopped down and looked at the picture and discovered that I’d captured this shot: Baby #3 emerging from its egg!
Edited to note: I ended up photographing our baby robins every day, from the day they hatched to the day they left the nest, and I’ve put together an album on my Facebook page. You can see it here.
Easy Robin Craft for Toddlers and Preschoolers
This afternoon, my daycare toddlers and preschoolers had a few extra minutes before going home, so we made this easy paper rockin’ robin craft – a mama robin and her babies – in honour of our own robin family.
We didn’t make a nest for our robin craft, but if you’d like to, you we have an easy paper bag nest here.
You may also like our “Nest Full of Eggs” craft and reading activity and our Paper Plate Robins for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Rockin’ Robin Craft Supplies:
- light brown card stock (or construction paper or even a cereal box)
- yellow/orange pair for beak
- dark brown paper for tail feathers
- orange tissue paper
- googly eyes
- glue
- pencil
- scissors
- something round to trace
Before making your robin craft, take the opportunity to talk with your child about what a robin looks like. Show them the photos of our baby robins on Facebook, or look at pictures in a book or online.
You can discuss the colouring of the American robin (brown with an orange breast) and your child can make his or her own observations about the bird. You can even listen to the different sounds a robin makes on this website.
Robin Books to Extend this Activity:
Instructions
How to Make a Rocking Paper Robin
- Cut
Cut a circle out of brown cardstock, construction paper or a cereal box.
- Fold
Fold your circle in half and press along the crease. Note: if you don’t have cardboard, you can use a paper plate and paint it brown. That’s what we used for these rocking birds, and it worked well.
- Add orange “feathers”
Next, have your child glue crumpled pieces of orange tissue paper on the robin’s tummy.
- Add tail feathers
For the tail feathers, fold some thin strips of brown construction paper and glue them to the back end of the bird.
- Add eyes and beak
To finish, cut yellow or orange triangles from your paper and glue them inside the fold. Glue a googly eye in place.
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Now, when you set your robin on a flat surface, and give it a little tap, it will “rock”.
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Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.
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Janire
you are the best.
happyhooligans
Aww, thanks for being so sweet, Janire!
brenesflowers
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
happyhooligans
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
Melissa (@ChMuffinTree)
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.
happyhooligans
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
amber
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.
happyhooligans
Lucky you, Amber! Enjoy your babies!
Benta
This bird is great. I’ve added it to Pinterest, hope that’s ok, let me know if you’d rather I removed it.
happyhooligans
Not at all! Please pin and share!
Katey Magill
Baby robins would be adorable!
happyhooligans
They would be! I thought so too, Katey, but we didn’t quite get around to making some. 🙂
Anita
This is such a great site.I have a 4 years old girl that loves to glue and cut and make things out of nothing.Thank you for sharing 🙂
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You are terrible at instructions. Telling where it should be glued and such is kind of necessary.