Spring Season Board: Robin
Robins are the real harbingers of spring! Even though robins are probably the most abundant bird in our yard, I held off on doing them because 1) I wasn’t sure how I was going to get black feathers using red/blue/yellow/green dye and 2) they clearly have two colors and I wanted to make sure the craft was good before really diving in with multi-colored birds. For #1, I gave up trying to mix colors to get the right shade and just bought black food coloring. Sometimes you just have to buy that extra item. The bird crafts are going great, so #2 isn’t an issue and we can dive right in! We used the coloring page found at ColoringAll.com and dyed the feathers using the same method as with the Cardinals.
Here are your fun Robin facts:
Scientific name: Turdus migratorius
A recording of their song can be found here.
Both males and females look the same.
Their eggs are blue!
The robin is the state bird of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Connecticut.
And with that our sky is getting pretty full on our season board!
