Birds

Games/Activities:

Ideas on how to incorporate theme: 

• Good theme to introduce flock name but you don’t have to just focus on that bird 
• Make pine cone birdfeeders 
• Go on bird wanders with binoculars and field guides 
• Visit other flocks and share information about your flock name
• Eat like a bird! Have your flock try different kinds of things that birds eat
  

Bird Games

• • Nest Robbers 
    • Separate your flock into several small groups that represent songbirds 
    • Each group has to build a hidden nest in the designated game area 
    • Campers are not allowed to speak during the game, instead they can only make bird calls 
    • In the center of the game area is “food” or bandana balls 
    • The songbirds have to get the food (they can only take one bandana ball at a time) to their nest without the “corvids” (crows, ravens, blue jays, etc.) finding where their nest is. The “corvids” in this game are the instructors 
    • The corvids must find the songbirds’ nests and try to take their food (they can only take one at a time) 
    • If a songbird gets tagged holding a bandana ball, they have to put it back with the others
      
      
  • Chickadee Tag 
    • An instructor hides bandana balls in designated game area. These represent the chickadees’ food 
    • The campers are chickadees that have to go out in search of the bandana balls. They bring them back to their “nest area” 
    • Instructors are hawks, chasing the chickadees 
    • The chickadees can warn each other about the hawks by giving the alarm call “chickadee-dee-dee-dee” 
    • If a chickadee is tagged they have to jump in the air 3 times before playing 
    • This chickadees in this game could be changed to crows. The crows can join together to “mob”(or scare away) the hawks

  • Owl and Mouse 
    • This is a fun traveling game 
    • One person (the one leading the group), is the owl and everyone behind them are mice 
    • The owl gives a warning “hoot” and when they turn around all of the mice must be frozen 
    • If someone is caught moving by the owl, then they have to go to the back of the line

• • Song Suggestions: 
    • Be Like a Bird (linked)
    • Little Bird, Little Bird, Fly Through My Window 
    • Robin Song 
    • Make up your own song for your flock name! 

  • Some questions you could ask: 
    • What does your flock name look/sound like? 
    • Where does it build its nest and with what kind of material? 
    • What does it like to eat? 
    • Can you find this bird this week?