At a Glance
These design your own feather templates are a true blank canvas for preschool, kindergarten and other young learners. Children color, decorate or collage each feather however they imagine it, building creativity, fine motor skills, pencil control and decision-making. An open-ended invitation to create that fits beautifully into bird, nature, or Thanksgiving themes.
This one’s pretty straight forward – it’s a design your own feathers worksheet.
This feather coloring sheet is great for to use as the base for a birdy craft or art project.
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What Skills Can Your Children Learn And Practice?
Which skills your little ones will develop depends largely on how you plan to use this feather template. Here’s a few that they could improve if you decide to get all crafty with them:
- Fine Motor Skills – if they’re going to collage their feathers, they’ll need to use their pincer grip to pick up the pieces and carefully put them where they want them to go
- Creativity – as the template is basically a blank canvas, your children will have a lot of space to exercise their creativity and decide how they want to personalize it
- Hand-eye coordination – to be able to understand what they are seeing and get their hands to go where they want them to go
- Hand and finger strength – the ability to be able to apply enough pressure to make marks on the page and hold the pencil firmly
- Pencil Control – they can practice their pencil control and develop hand strength through coloring this template in
- Cutting Skills – if you feel they’re ready, you can let them have a go at cutting it out – they’ll need to be careful and have good scissor control if they want to cut out the template neatly
How To Prepare This Design Your Own Feather Sheet
Pretty simple this one. First you’re going to want to download the template by clicking on the download box at the bottom of the page.
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Once you’ve downloaded the template, you’ll need to print it off onto paper or card depending on what you plan on using it for.
After that you’re all done.
Let your children’s creativity run wild!
I hope they come up with some fantastic, feathery creations!
