January 5th is National Bird Day. It is also a Saturday so I let the kids be somewhat lazy and they got to watch several movies. But only if they could relate them to birds. So they watched The Court Jester (it has homing pigeons in it), Ratatouille (because birds that sleep during the day- owls- eat rats), and Surf's Up (because obviously penguins are birds). I love their creativity, figuring out ways to relate things to what we're celebrating. Jr. used to do that all the time with Wii games so he could play them. "Oh, it's National Bird Day? Skyward Sword has birds in it, so we should play that."
For dinner, we had Bruschetta Chicken Bake, a recipe from the back of the Stove Top stuffing box, since chickens are birds.
After dinner the kids colored pictures of hummingbirds.
At bedtime, Nichole argued that she wanted to keep reading at "lights out" because the book she was reading mentioned birds in it. The lights still went out.
And a blanket Jeremy was using had a bird on it.
Now that Nichole and Jr. are in bed, I plan to watch Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds." At least some of it.
Other ways to celebrate National Bird Day could be to draw a picture of a bird or have a discussion about the bluebird of happiness and how you can find happiness right in your own home with your own family.
Clever tie ins to birds. I wonder what my kids would pick and what explanations they'd come up with.
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