Check out the following fun art activities to connect youth with the natural world! Include these activities in your Celebrate Urban Birds event.

  • Learn how to create fabric collages with artist Elsie Dentes.
  • Painting bird tiles starts a conversation for kids to learn more about birds.
  • Muralist and visual artist Katie Yamasaki shows you how to build bird studies into the art curriculum. Create cardboard birds, take them outdoors into their natural habitat and photograph them. Check out her “Art in the Park” lesson plan.
  • Artist Sarah Locke explores bird identification through bird mobiles.