I am thankful for birds and insects

What am I? Act it out.

I have a beak.
I have feathers.
I have wings.
I fly in the air.

Sing: In the leafy treetops

Prep

snack: honey sesame seed treats

coloring page

cut outs of butterfly, spider, and bee

pipe cleaners and cheerios for bird feeders

Is this a bird? How can you tell?

snack then stories

Elijah being Fed by Ravens

Insects and Creeping things

I am yellow and I buzz.
My tummy is covered with fuzz.

I make honey for you and me.

I am a honey _____. (Bee; make a buzzing sound.)
I spin a web to catch my food.
I have eight legs just like I should.

People often don’t like me.

Can you guess what I might be? (Spider; move fingers like legs.)
I was once a caterpillar.
I can fly up in the sky.

I have beautiful wings.

I am a _____. (Butterfly; softly move fingers like wings.)

bees make honey

Beehive

Here is the beehive (cup left hand downward).
Where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees (hide fingers of right hand under cupped left hand).
Soon they’ll come flying out of the hive (bring right hand out and hold up one finger at a time as children count).
One, two, three, four, five! BZZZ!

Butterfly Game

One little butterfly flew away

On a very bright, warm summer day.

It flew up in the sky so blue,

And when it landed, it landed on you!

When you say, “It landed on you,” the child who is the butterfly places the paper butterfly in another child’s lap. That child is now the butterfly. Repeat the verse until every child has had a turn to be the butterfly.