Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Native Birds:

Hi everyone and welcome to another amazing blog reflection! Today would be a very different topic. Its gonna be about the natives bird puppets we created!

At the beginning of our project, we had to get into a group of 4. Of course I went with some amazing people. Aleena, Mervlyn and Margaret. They are all very creative and would make our puppet look bird-tastic. After we got into our groups, we planned. We wanted to make a owl but at the end. . . . . We founded out that we needed to make a bird that is native to our planet so last minute, we made a kiwi but at the end, someone took our kiwi and we just decided that it would have been best to just continue with our owl. It turned out, pretty good I think.

Two days after we planned, we were ready to create. We used a empty paper towel roll and we made a head by crunching up pieces of baking paper and stuffed it into a smooth piece of new baking paper. We hot glued the end so it wouldn't come apart. We then stuck it onto the top of the paper towel roll. We used a marker to draw a owl looking face. It looked pretty similar to a owl I personally think. 

We then made the wings. We collected some feathers to stick onto our wings to make them feel and look more realistic. We drew a wing shape that we all liked and cut it our and stuck it onto our owl body or base. We stuck on some feathers which gave it a realistic feel and look. My group ended up using red and blue feathers but it was our choice and I think it looks pretty cool.

Our finish product looks similar to a owl but not that close. We have the owl wings, face and the realistic look and feel of a real owl. I think it turned out cool! What I like about it is that we chose a different bird instead of the kiwi that many other groups were making. We added our own touches and we put a lot of thought into it.