40+ Ideas For A Fabulous Feather Theme Unit Study
There is something so intriguing about feathers! My kids love hunting for them outside in nature, and they also get super excited about them when I buy a pack from the store. They are versatile and can be used for many different activities! They work well as a craft material year round, but can be especially helpful during Easter, Thanksgiving, or if you’re teaching a unit about birds. Maybe you are even considering having your own feather themed unit this year! No matter what the occasion is for your feather activities, these 40+ Ideas for a Fabulous Feather Themed Unit Study are sure to come in handy this year!
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Feathers can be used as a crafting material, manipulative, painting tool, and so much more!
Since they are easy to find and inexpensive, they really are the perfect addition to any activity you are working on.
Why Should I Use Feather Themed Activities?
Besides the fact that feathers are just plain fun, there are so many other benefits to using them with kids!
Reasons to Use Feather Themed Activities:
Learn to Appreciate Nature: Learning about feathers and doing activities that involve feathers can help children learn to appreciate nature! Talking about feathers and birds can easily lead to conversations with our children where we discuss the importance of respecting nature and taking care of our earth and our environment!
Observation Skills: Feathers come in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. Observing the characteristics of feathers is great for working on observation skills and helping children to learn how to classify in a very simple and basic way!
Language Development: Feathers are a great theme for helping with language development! Curious children will ask questions about birds and want to talk about them, which helps to grow their language skills and also their critical thinking skills. Just learning and using words to describe the features of feathers (soft, flexible, fragile, light, colorful, etc…) helps develop little learners’ vocabulary!
40+ Ideas For A Fabulous Feather Themed Unit Study
Feather Themed Art Activities
Arts and crafts are one of our go to activities! No matter if we need a quick boredom buster or are looking for a fun activity to fill a large chunk of time, I almost always turn to art. Now, I’m going to let you in on a little secret- feathers make everything more fun!! They make a great utensil for painting and they are the perfect size for little hands to hold. You are going to have so much fun making feather themed art and using feathers to create artwork!
1. Black Glue Feather Craft
Elevating your feather crafts is easy with black glue! You can find black glue at your local craft store, or make some with black food dye if you can’t find any. Adding black glue to feathers makes them look more realistic and puts a fun and unique spin on feather craft projects! This Black Glue Feather Craft is simple, easy, and it will be a hit with your preschoolers!
2. Easy Thanksgiving Turkey Crafts
Are the feather activities you came here for going to be used with your Thanksgiving Unit? If so, be sure to check out these Easy Thanksgiving Turkey Crafts for kids! There are so many simple and easy turkey craft ideas that you and your kids will love!
More Feather Themed Art Activities for Kids
- Check out tips for painting with feathers at How to Paint With Feathers.
- Here’s another fun way to Paint With Feathers.
- Make a fun craft with How to Make a Feather and Beaded Necklace Craft for Kids.
- Kids will love creating process art with Feather Process Art & Painting.
- Use feathers to make a fun Owl Pinecone Craft!
- Create some adorable Crazy Feathered Birds!
- Feathers are the perfect decoration for Paper Plate Carnival Masks.
- Make a super cute keepsake using feathers with this Footprint Turkey project.
- Make a fun Paper Plate Owl Craft using feathers.
Feather Themed Math Activities
Feathers make math exciting and engaging for kids! Check out all these awesome activities for learning math with feathers. These activities include ideas for learning shapes, working on counting, measuring, and so much more!
Feathered Themed Math Activities
- Work on shapes with this How to Make Shapes with Colorful Feathers activity.
- Feather Counting Wands are a great way to work on counting!
- Using feathers to measure is fun with Turkey Feather Measuring.
- Help build number sense with Decomposing Turkeys.
- Turkey Feather Math is another good activity for working on counting.
- Turkey Feather Ten Frames are perfect for working on counting with ten frames.
- Build and count lego feathers with this Lego Turkey Busy Bag.
Feather Themed Literacy Activities
Feathers go wonderfully with literacy activities! They are fabulous for pairing with books about birds, they fit in perfectly with Thanksgiving learning activities, and are a great theme for learning about the letter F! Practice skills like letter recognition, letter sounds, name recognition, spelling, and letter formation with these feather themed literacy activities.
More Feather Themed Literacy Activities
- If you love letter crafts as much as we do, you are sure to love this F is for Feathers craft.
- Feather Poke: Name Recognition Activity is a great way to practice your child’s name.
- Practice upper and lowercase letters with this Alphabet Feather Match.
- Turkey Feather Name Recognition is another fun way to practice the letter’s of a child’s name.
- Work on beginning letter sounds with Turkey Beginning Letter Sound Sorts.
- Practice spelling with Turkey Feather Spelling.
- Salt Feather Writing is wonderful for letter formation and fine motor skills!
Feather Themed STEM Activities
Feathers are a great theme for science! Just by handing a child a feather to look at, you can spark so much curiosity. These fun STEM activities will have your kids asking questions, learning about birds, and investigating the wind. Get ready for some STEM fun!
1. The Feather Experiment: Learning About Wind
Feathers make the perfect tool for a wind investigation! The Feather Experiment: Learning About Wind is an awesome investigation for learning more about wind. Kids will love experimenting with feathers, making observations, and drawing conclusions about the wind in this activity. Get ready for some fun next time you have a windy day!
More Feather Themed STEM Activities
- Investigate penguin feathers in this Penguin Feathers STEM Activity.
- Color, label, and learn about bird feathers with Learning About Bird Feathers Printable.
- Who will win the race of the Turkey Rockets?
- Explore how an oil spill can affect wildlife with this STEM Activity: Oil Spill.
- Try this fun Feather Float Challenge!
- The Best Nest is a great STEM activity combined with a literacy activity.
Feather Themed Sensory Activities
Feathers are wonderful for sensory exploration for little learners. They just can’t help but run their hands over the soft part of the feather, but there are also smooth and hard parts as well that add a variety of textures for them. They work well alone for sensory exploration, but also make a great addition to a sensory bin or play dough sensory activity! Check out all the fun sensory activities listed below!
1. Easy Non- Food Sensory Bin for Kids
Feathers make a great sensory bin filler! This Easy Non- Food Sensory Bin for Kids is awesome for when you want to avoid a sensory bin with food as a filler, or if you just have extra craft supplies lying around. Kids will love exploring this sensory bin and feathers will make it all the more exciting and fun for them!
More Feather Themed Sensory Activities
- Kids will love this Feather Sensory Bin.
- Make a fun Sensory Turkey with your preschoolers!
- Simple Feather Color Sorting has a variety of textures for sensory exploration!
- Turkey Play Dough Mats are wonderful for practicing math and sensory play!
Feather Themed Fine Motor Skills Activities
Feathers are the perfect size for little hands. Holding them is excellent for the pincer grip and for strengthening hand and finger muscles. All of these activities involve holding and manipulating feathers, or use a feather themed activity to work on fine motor skills! Get ready for some fine motor skill fun!
More Feather Themed Motor Skills Activities
- Feathers and beads – it doesn’t get more simple than that in this Feather Beading Fine Motor Activity.
- Work on colors and fine motor skills with Preschool Threading With Feathers And Buttons.
- Feathers and Foam Noodles is another simple and easy activity for fine motor skills.
- Paper Feather Craft is awesome scissor practice and strengthens hand muscles!
- Paper Feathered Turkey Craft is another amazing way to work on scissor skills.
- Feathers and a strainer make this Feather Fine Motor activity a super easy one!
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