Recommended Grades:  primary

Headbands

• Turkey Vulture

• Scrub Jay

Have the students color and cut out.  Extend the sides with paper so it will fit around the child’s head. 

The Turkey Vulture has a red orange head without feathers.  The beak is yellowish and the feathers are brown.

The Scrub Jay is mainly blue with white bands and black-brown beak.

Red shouldered hawk Glider

1. Copy to heavy stock paper.

2. Color the glider.

3. Cut out.

4. Assemble.  Slide the wings through the slit in the middle of the body so your hawk can fly.  Attach the tail to the body at the slits.  Just cut and you will be done.

The reddish shoulder patches that give this hawk its name are not easily visible, except at close range. Under parts are pale rust with horizontal barring. From below, this hawk shows translucent "window" patches at the base of the primaries, and narrow white bands on a dark tail. Immature hawks are brown above, clear pale chest, and vertically streaked brown breast and belly.

Dragonfly Arm Band

The students can imagine that a dragonfly landed on their arm.  They know it is a dragonfly because its winds are outreached when it perches.  A damselfly would have its winds in a closed position.

 
Headband for a turkey vulture

Directions:  Cut out turkey vulture outline and headband.  You may need to extend the headband by stapling or taping more paper so it fits around the child’s head.  On the headband write:  Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)

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Western Scrub Jay

Directions:  Cut out the Western scrub jay outline and headband.  You may need to extend the headband by stapling or taping more paper so it fits around the child’s head.  On the headband write:  Western Scrub Jay (Aphelocoma california)

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Red Shouldered Hawk

Directions:  Copy to heavy stock paper.  Color the glider.  Cut out.  Assemble-Slide the wings through the slit in the middle of the body so your hawk can fly.  Attach the tail to the body at the slits.

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Dragonfly Armband

Dragonfly and damselflies belong to the Order Odonata.  You can tell the difference when they perch.  The Dragonfly will have its wings open and the damselfly will have its wings closed when they are at rest

 
Directions:  Cut out the dragonfly outline and headband.  You may need to extend the headband by stapling or taping more paper so it fits around the child’s head.  On the headband write:  Dragonfly

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(pdf version)