Bird songs

Ages 3 to 5 Read and do together · about 15 minutes

Read together

Listen! A bird is singing. Tweet, tweet, tweet!

Birds sing high and low, fast and slow.

Do it

1. Go outside early or sit by an open window. Listen for one minute and close your eyes.
2. Copy a bird song with your voice. Is it high or low? Fast or slow?
3. Make a bird whistle or hum a tune together.
4. Draw the sound on paper as dots and lines, going up and down.

Talk about it

• Is the song high or low?
• How many birds can you hear?

For the grown-up

Listening closely is a music skill. Jesus pointed to the birds of the air (Matthew 6:26). The reference is a labelled paraphrase of the idea. Do not use recordings loudly near wild birds.

Mark as done

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