BIRD-PROTECTION IN THE SCHOOLS 281 



twenty winter birds. The price of each chart is 

 $1.50. 



Handwork. For young children it is important 

 that a hirge amount of handwork should be pro- 

 vided, as children acquire knowledge faster by this 

 means. Colored pictures furnish material for this 

 kind of work. The children are given uncolored 

 outlines and, with the colored pictures before them, 

 color in the outline, using either colored crayons or 

 water-colors. The outlines may be obtained in three 

 ways: First, they may be bought. The National 

 Association of Audubon Societies sells an outline with 

 each picture, but does not sell the outlines sepa- 

 rately. Separate outlines of thirty common birds 

 may be bought for one cent each of the Comstock 

 Publishing Company, Ithaca, New York. Second, 

 the teacher, by means of a mimeograph or other 

 device, may make enough outlines to supply the 

 class. Third, the children may make the outlines 

 themselves. The older children may make free-hand 

 drawings of the outline from the picture. 



The younger children may trace the outlines. 

 For this purpose two grades of paper are needed, the 

 ordinary drawing-paper on which the final outline 

 is to be colored, and some paper thin enough for 

 tracing: thin typewriting paper will do. The thin 

 paper is held over the picture and the outline of 

 the bird traced. When this is finished, it is turned 

 over and placed on the ordinary drawing-paper with 



