Green!

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Tribute to turkeys!

 

alonggriffincreek.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring.html

 

 

 

www.flickr.com/photos/andy_s/sets/72057594134938893/?page=4

 

 

 

 

 

Adopt a turkey!

Did you know you can adopt a turkey and even an entire flock?

Click here to learn about this project:

www.adoptaturkey.org/aat/adopt/sponsor.html

Farm Sanctuary

www.facebook.com/pages/Farm-Sanctuary/19575923823?v=wall#/pages/Farm-Sanctuary/19575923823

 

 

 

Baby turkeys hatching

 

LINKS
www.exploringnature.org/db/detail.php?dbID=6&detID=86
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_%28bird%29

www.adoptaturkey.org/
www.farmsanctuarykidzclub.com/index.html

Paper Toys
www.thetoymaker.com/Holidays/Thanksgiving/TURKEY1.pdf
www.macula.tv/downloads/papertoys/gallery/thanksgiving/turkey02.htm

BOOKS

Turkey Riddles
Five Silly Turkeys
The Turkey Ball 
All About Turkeys

Strange and extravagant!

Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that all things are connected to God and, therefore, all things are divine.

LINKS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
http://www.rwe.org/
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/ralph_waldo_emerson.html

Art by Marilyn Scott Waters, the ToyMaker

Link to download the font in this image:
http://www.scottwatersdesign.com/1lj/Meticulous.ttf

Fada Moranga loves chicken!

Once upon a time there was a little boy who had a green dream.
In his dream there used to live a chicken.
A very big chicken!
He started drawing... trying to make this dream come true.
One day, the green chicken was born.
His beloved bird had taken on a face, a shape, a place and a function:
a rocking chair!

The Green Chicken by Jaime Hayon

Jaime Hayón is a Spanish artist-designer, born in Madrid in 1974.

hayonstudio.com

Celebrating Charles Darwin!

Once upon a time there was a little boy who collected birds' eggs and sea shells, beetles and coins, moths and minerals. He wasn’t a very good student, school just bored him. He had some difficulties in memorizing but he never tired of studying the details of the natural world. He was born in Shrewsbury, a rural town in England and he spent hours watching birds and lying under the dining-room table, reading.

As a teenager, he was thrilled by chemistry, biology, botany and geology. His father wanted him to be a doctor. But as he studied at the University of Cambridge, his teachers recognized his potential. Finally, his true talent for natural history blossomed.

One day he was invited to join a ship called Beagle for a trip around the world. It was time to follow his dream! He went as the ship's naturalist and for most of the next five years, the Beagle surveyed the coast of South America. He was free to explore the continent and islands, including the Galapagos and he filled dozens of notebooks with careful observations on animals, plants and geology, and collected thousands of specimens, which he sent home for further study.

Darwin later called the Beagle voyage "by far the most important event in my life," saying it "determined my whole career." By the time he returned, he was an established naturalist, well-known in London for the astonishing collections he had sent ahead. The Beagle voyage would provide Darwin with a lifetime of experiences to think about and the seeds of a theory he would work on for the rest of his life.

Charles Darwin was born on February 12th, 1809 and this week we celebrate his 200th birthday!

All images taken from the book “The Tree of Life” by Peter Sis

more BOOKS about Darwin
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000332901
http://www.charliesplayhouse.com/Bibliography.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Charles-Darwins-Recipe-Book/dp/0980155738
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3884822/Revealed-the-recipes-that-fuelled-Charles-Darwin.html

TOYS
http://www.charliesplayhouse.com/index.html
http://www.amazon.com/EVOLVING-CHARLES-DARWIN-PC-PLAYSET/dp/B001FXCNE2
http://www.science.siu.edu/zoology/darwin/#bobblehead

Learn all about CHARLES DARWIN – LINKS
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Evolution/Darwin.htm
http://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/library/children
http://darwin-online.org.uk/
http://www.aboutdarwin.com/index.html
http://earlyhumans.mrdonn.org/evolution.html
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/
http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/ch/Charles_Darwin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
http://darwin.gruts.com/
http://darwinbeagle.blogspot.com/

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
http://www.darwin2009.cam.ac.uk/
http://www.darwin200.org/
http://darwin-online.org.uk/2009.html
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/darwin/slideshow.html
http://www.kent.ac.uk/whatson/darwin/index.html
http://www.darwin200.org.au/events/
http://www.gulbenkian.pt/darwin/home.html

VIDEOS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7875657.stm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWaQ3wXylOM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4471435322910215458
http://science.discovery.com/videos/galapagos-beyond-darwin-reviewing-darwins-findings.html

Meet Geninne!

Geninne's love of birds started early.
Her mother would bribe her into eating

by putting the canary on the table for her to look at.

Geninne Zlatkis is now a freelance illustrator and designer,

living in Mexico City.


Geninne's Shop

London birds!

window shop on Kings Road, London

Fada Moranga loves The Pigeon!

Have lots of fun at The Pigeon's website

and

meet his creator, Mo Willems

Getting ready for Easter!

Wonderful crafts from MarthaStewart.com