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Showing posts with label masks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label masks. Show all posts
Halloween: Monster Mask
Print, cut and add ties...Happy Halloween!
MORE HALLOWEEN CRAFTS AND ORIGAMI FOR KIDS
©2010 Tammy Yee
All rights reserved.
MORE HALLOWEEN CRAFTS AND ORIGAMI FOR KIDS
©2010 Tammy Yee
All rights reserved.
Halloween: Skull Mask
Print, cut and add ties...Happy Halloween!
©2010 Tammy Yee
All rights reserved.
©2010 Tammy Yee
All rights reserved.
Halloween: Owl Mask
Great Horned Owl Mask
Difficulty: Easy
Materials:
Directions:
1. Print and cut out Owl Mask:
2. Cut out holes for eyes.
3a. Overlap tab as shown and secure with tape.
3b. Repeat on other side.
3c. From the backside, you can see how the tabs overlap, and how this creates a rounded look.
4a. Crease owl beak along center fold, and secure with tape as shown.
4b. From the underside, you can see how this creates a three dimensional beak.
5. Fold in beak tabs as shown. Turn beak over.
6a. Apply tape to beak as shown...
6b. And secure to Owl Mask as shown, using the white areas on the mask as a guide.
Have a safe and Happy Halloween!
©2009 Tammy Yee
All rights reserved.
Difficulty: Easy
Materials:
- Heavyweight paper
- Scissors
- Clear paper tape
Directions:
1. Print and cut out Owl Mask:
2. Cut out holes for eyes.
3a. Overlap tab as shown and secure with tape.
3b. Repeat on other side.
3c. From the backside, you can see how the tabs overlap, and how this creates a rounded look.
4a. Crease owl beak along center fold, and secure with tape as shown.
4b. From the underside, you can see how this creates a three dimensional beak.
5. Fold in beak tabs as shown. Turn beak over.
6a. Apply tape to beak as shown...
6b. And secure to Owl Mask as shown, using the white areas on the mask as a guide.
Have a safe and Happy Halloween!
All rights reserved.
Owl Mask (Pueo)
Pueo (Hawaiian Short-eared Owl)
Scientific name: Asio flammeus sandwichensis
What is it about owls that inspires so many myths and legends? Owls are a symbol of wisdom; their watchful eyes penetrate the darkness, seeing all. Flying by night, they are guides, messengers and navigators of the supernatural. The Romans saw owls as omens of death, while the Greeks saw owls as a sign of victory in battle. To the Hawaiians, the pueo, or Hawaiian Short-eared Owl, was worshiped as a god or a guardian spirit.
The Hawaiian Short-eared Owl is the only native owl in Hawai'i (the common barn owl was introduced in the 1950's as rodent control). Most active at dawn and at dusk (and sometimes, at mid-day), Pueo have large eyes that allow them to hunt in dim light. In fact, the eyes of owls are so large, relative to their heads, that they can't look from side to side; that's why owls have such flexible necks.
Soft, specialized feathers help the pueo to hunt in silence. Besides rodents, pueo also eat insects and rarely, birds in open, grassy fields and dry forests.
2003 Ka Palapala Po'okela Award Winner, Excellence in Children's Books
Lullaby Moon
Written by Elaine Masters
Illustrated by Tammy Yee
Music by Malia Elliot
Island Heritage Publishing, 2002
A dreamy adventure about Koa, a little Hawaiian boy who would rather play outside than fall asleep. Koa soon finds himself befriended by an owl, or Pueo, who takes him on a magical exploration of the island's wildlife. Under the watchful gaze of Lullaby Moon, Koa learns how bats, bees and green sea turtles spend their night.
Featuring boldly illustrated lift-a-flaps and a CD by Malia Elliot, of the popular performing and songwriting duo, Leon & Malia.
Scientific name: Asio flammeus sandwichensis
The Hawaiian Short-eared Owl is the only native owl in Hawai'i (the common barn owl was introduced in the 1950's as rodent control). Most active at dawn and at dusk (and sometimes, at mid-day), Pueo have large eyes that allow them to hunt in dim light. In fact, the eyes of owls are so large, relative to their heads, that they can't look from side to side; that's why owls have such flexible necks.
Soft, specialized feathers help the pueo to hunt in silence. Besides rodents, pueo also eat insects and rarely, birds in open, grassy fields and dry forests.
Lullaby Moon
Written by Elaine Masters
Illustrated by Tammy Yee
Music by Malia Elliot
Island Heritage Publishing, 2002
A dreamy adventure about Koa, a little Hawaiian boy who would rather play outside than fall asleep. Koa soon finds himself befriended by an owl, or Pueo, who takes him on a magical exploration of the island's wildlife. Under the watchful gaze of Lullaby Moon, Koa learns how bats, bees and green sea turtles spend their night.
Featuring boldly illustrated lift-a-flaps and a CD by Malia Elliot, of the popular performing and songwriting duo, Leon & Malia.
Hawaiian Honeycreeper Mask (I'iwi)
'I'iwi (Hawaiian Honeycreeper)
Scientific name: Vestiaria coccinea
What's that squeaky song? Peering through tree ferns, you spy a red bird high in the rainforest canopy. It hops from branch to branch, dipping its long curved beak into the flowers for a sip of nectar. After it has visited every lehua blossom, it flies off in search of more nectar.
The scarlet 'i'iwi (ee-EE-vee) is one of the most beautiful birds in Hawai'i. It uses its long, sickle-shaped beak to probe for nectar in native lobeliad flowers and 'ohi'a blossoms. It also feeds on insects and larvae.
'I'iwi usually breed from February to September. Clutches of one to three whitish eggs with dark brown markings are laid in cup-shaped nests. The eggs hatch after 14 days. The newly hatched chicks have bright orange skin, with patches of soft down on their head and wings. After three weeks, the fledglings grow speckled yellow-green feathers and can fly with ease! The red adult plummage will gradually appear first on the breast, then head.
The 'i'iwi was valued by Hawaiians for its orange-red feathers, which were used to make feather capes, helmets and other symbols of Hawaiian royalty. Bird catchers would venture into the forest, looking for trees with blossoms to attract hungry 'i'iwi. Sticky sap was smeared on the branches of select trees. Sometimes the bird catcher would imitate a bird's song, or recite a special chant to lure more birds. An 'i'iwi that landed on the sap would be held fast in the sticky trap!
Although 'i'iwi are still fairly common on most of the islands, it is rare on O'ahu and Moloka'i and no longer found on Lana'i. Most of the decline is blamed on loss of habitat, as native forests are cleared for farming, grazing, and development. Another threat has been the spread of avian malaria.
Scientific name: Vestiaria coccinea
The scarlet 'i'iwi (ee-EE-vee) is one of the most beautiful birds in Hawai'i. It uses its long, sickle-shaped beak to probe for nectar in native lobeliad flowers and 'ohi'a blossoms. It also feeds on insects and larvae.
'I'iwi usually breed from February to September. Clutches of one to three whitish eggs with dark brown markings are laid in cup-shaped nests. The eggs hatch after 14 days. The newly hatched chicks have bright orange skin, with patches of soft down on their head and wings. After three weeks, the fledglings grow speckled yellow-green feathers and can fly with ease! The red adult plummage will gradually appear first on the breast, then head.
The 'i'iwi was valued by Hawaiians for its orange-red feathers, which were used to make feather capes, helmets and other symbols of Hawaiian royalty. Bird catchers would venture into the forest, looking for trees with blossoms to attract hungry 'i'iwi. Sticky sap was smeared on the branches of select trees. Sometimes the bird catcher would imitate a bird's song, or recite a special chant to lure more birds. An 'i'iwi that landed on the sap would be held fast in the sticky trap!
Although 'i'iwi are still fairly common on most of the islands, it is rare on O'ahu and Moloka'i and no longer found on Lana'i. Most of the decline is blamed on loss of habitat, as native forests are cleared for farming, grazing, and development. Another threat has been the spread of avian malaria.
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