I love super simple crafts that 1) don’t require me to go to the store to hunt down materials  2) can be completed by a preschooler with minimal help.  Some might call it laziness.  I call it….okay, laziness.  Big Sis and I saw a paper bird in a book and we made some changes and came up with this: 

Big Sis’s bird is in front and I like it better than mine.  Humph.  This is why preschoolers should be doing the crafts and not me.

So here’s how you make your very own symmetry shape bird:

1. Cut out large circle and two small triangles from blue paper.  Then one more small triangle from yellow paper.  To make it easy (and teach symmetry), fold the paper and cut out half of the shape.  Unfold to see that both sides are the same.  Talk about the line of symmetry.
2. Glue the yellow triangle and one blue triangle on top of the circle by lining up the fold lines.  Triangles should point opposite ways.  Talk about line of symmetry again.
3. Turn over.
4. Cut other blue triangle in half (on the fold line) to make two wings.  Glue on wings (symmetrically of course).
5. Draw eyes.  Draw lines or marks on the wings and tail.  Talk about symmetry and drawing the same thing on both sides.
6. Re-fold on the line of symmetry and BAM you are finished!  Now let your bird take flight!*

Materials:

• blue and yellow paper
• scissors
• marker
• glue

*Birds are made of paper and will not actually “fly.”  But still a fun craft, right?