I love game pigeon and all, but are a few flaws. Idk if it’s my phone (I don’t think it is it’s new) but whenever I try to just tap on GP to open it it doesn’t work so I have to open App Store, search up the app and tap open. My grandfather used to play chess via mail, right up until his death last year (see note below my avatar). I remember it would take him a few months to play each game, and he was totally fine with it.

One of our daughter’s favorite authors is Mo Willems. Anytime we tell her to bring us a book, she shows up with on the of the Pigeon series books. The other day at the chiropractor, I was saved from waiting with a pouting (and moody) kid by the discovery of two Elephant and Piggie books in the waiting room. Not only does she love his books but they always make me laugh as well. That’s one of the reasons that I wanted to share with you this easy craft for kids based on the Pigeon books by Mo Willems.

For Christmas, my daughter got a stuffed pigeon and several of the books, including the huge Pigeon Activity Book that she finished in a week flat. She draws pigeons all the time so while her older sisters were gone during a rainy week, I came up with the idea to help her paint a pigeon for her room.

I’ve done whimsical style painting for a long time and honestly, I love it because it is so hard to mess up. This craft is perfect for kids because you don’t want it to look flawless. A wonky line or paint drip will add character.

Are you ready to help your kids make their own whimsical style pigeon craft?

Hint: You don’t have to make a pigeon, you can use this technique for a variety of character paintings. Any character that has a black line around them would be an easy fit!

I chose to let my daughter paint this on an extra piece of 2X8 that I had already cut into smaller pieces to make Baseball crafts for VBS. I like letting kids paint on wood because it doesn’t bend or dip like a canvas and if they mess it up, you can sand it and let them go again. The 2X8 works well because it’s so thick that she can easily just stand it on a shelf.

You can use a variety of surfaces or even paint it on a piece of cardboard.

Start this project by painting your piece of wood or canvas solid black.

Once it’s painted you need to let it dry all the way. If you are doing this for an art class or preschool group, do this step in advance.

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Next use a piece of chalk to draw the character. When you are done, you will be erasing the chalk so remember that anywhere you cover with chalk will be black. The Pigeon by Mo Willems works really well for this project because he has a thick black outline.

I did this step for my daughter. If your child is great at drawing, let them do it.

Next, I let my daughter paint it but made it easy for her to remember what color went in a section by putting little dogs of that color in the correct section first.

It’s important to tell kids that they should not paint the chalk. It also helps if you show them how to get a straight edge of paint along the chalk line without going over it.

Once she had the entire inside of the pigeon painted, she started on the outside. It’s important that you paint the outside (background) of the pigeon or any character you chose. If you do not paint the background then when you erase the chalk lines, the black outline of the character won’t be visible.

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Once your child is done painting, let the paint dry to a tacky stage (approx. 10-15 minutes).

When the paint is still tacky, use a Q-Tip dipped in a little water to gently erase the chalk lines. You can also remove anywhere that the paint is too far over the chalk line as well if they paint is not completely dry.

When their painting is done, it might look a little something like this.

My daughter is so proud of her painting, as she should be. We wrote her name and age on the back and soon it will live upstairs in her room, with all of the other Mo Willems Pigeon loot that she already has and loves.

What do you think? Is this an easy craft for kids that love to read that you would let your kids make?

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B.F Skinner, a leading 20th century psychologist who hypothesized that behavior was caused only by external factors, not by thoughts or emotions, was a controversial figure in a field that tends to attract controversial figures. In a realm of science that has given us Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Jean Piaget, Skinner stands out by sheer quirkiness. After all, he is the scientist who trained rats to pull levers and push buttons and taught pigeons to read and play ping-pong.

Besides Freud, Skinner is arguably the most famous psychologist of the 20th century. Today, his work is basic study in introductory psychology classes across the country. But what drives a man to teach his children’s cats to play piano and instruct his beagle on how to play hide and seek? Last year, Norwegian researchers dove into his past to figure it out. The team combed through biographies, archival material and interviews with those who knew him, then tested Skinner on a common personality scale.

They found Skinner, who would be 109 years old today, was highly conscientious, extroverted and somewhat neurotic—a trait shared by as many as 45 percent of leading scientists. The analysis revealed him to be a tireless worker, one who introduced a new approach to behavioral science by building on the theories of Ivan Pavlov and John Watson.

Skinner wasn’t interested in understanding the human mind and its mental processes—his field of study, known as behaviorism, was primarily concerned with observable actions and how they arose from environmental factors. He believed that our actions are shaped by our experience of reward and punishment, an approach that he called operant conditioning. The term “operant” refers to an animal or person “operating” on their environment to affect change while learning a new behavior.

Operant conditioning breaks down a task into increments. If you want to teach a pigeon to turn in a circle to the left, you give it a reward for any small movement it makes in that direction. Soon, the pigeon catches onto this and makes larger movements to the left, which garner more rewards, until the bird completes the full circle. Skinner believed that this type of learning even relates to language and the way we learn to speak. Children are rewarded, through their parents’ verbal encouragement and affection, for making a sound that resembles a certain word until they can actually say that word.

Skinner’s approach introduced a new term into the literature: reinforcement. Behavior that is reinforced, like a mother excitedly drawing out the sounds of “mama” as a baby coos, tends to be repeated, and behavior that’s not reinforced tends to weaken and die out. “Positive” refers to the practice of encouraging a behavior by adding to it, such as rewarding a dog with a treat, and “negative” refers to encouraging a behavior by taking something away. For example, when a driver absentmindedly continues to sit in front of a green light, the driver waiting behind them honks his car horn. The first person is reinforced for moving when the honking stops. The phenomenon of reinforcement extends beyond babies and pigeons: we’re rewarded for going to work each day with a paycheck every two weeks, and likely wouldn’t step inside the office once they were taken away.

Today, the spotlight has shifted from such behavior analysis to cognitive theories, but some of Skinner’s contributions continue to hold water, from teaching dogs to roll over to convincing kids to clean their rooms. Here are a few:

1. The Skinner box. To show how reinforcement works in a controlled environment, Skinner placed a hungry rat into a box that contained a lever. As the rat scurried around inside the box, it would accidentally press the lever, causing a food pellet to drop into the box. After several such runs, the rat quickly learned that upon entering the box, running straight toward the lever and pressing down meant receiving a tasty snack. The rat learned how to use a lever to its benefit in an unpleasant situation too: in another box that administered small electric shocks, pressing the lever caused the unpleasant zapping to stop.

2. Project Pigeon. During World War II, the military invested Skinner’s project to train pigeons to guide missiles through the skies. The psychologist used a device that emitted a clicking noise to train pigeons to peck at a small, moving point underneath a glass screen. Skinner posited that the birds, situated in front of a screen inside of a missile, would see enemy torpedoes as specks on the glass, and rapidly begin pecking at it. Their movements would then be used to steer the missile toward the enemy: Pecks at the center of the screen would direct the rocket to fly straight, while off-center pecks would cause it to tilt and change course. Skinner managed to teach one bird to peck at a spot more than 10,000 times in 45 minutes, but the prospect of pigeon-guided missiles, along with adequate funding, eventually lost luster.

3. The Air-Crib. Skinner tried to mechanize childcare through the use of this “baby box,” which maintained the temperature of a child’s environment. Humorously known as an “heir conditioner,” the crib was completely humidity- and temperate-controlled, a feature Skinner believed would keep his second daughter from getting cold at night and crying. A fan pushed air from the outside through a linen-like surface, adjusting the temperature throughout the night. The air-crib failed commercially, and although his daughter only slept inside at night, many of Skinner’s critics believed it was a cruel and experimental way to raise a child.

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4. The teaching box. Skinner believed using his teaching machine to break down material bit by bit, offering rewards along the way for correct responses, could serve almost like a private tutor for students. Material was presented in sequence, and the machine provided hints and suggestions until students verbally explained a response to a problem (Skinner didn’t believe in multiple choice answers). The device wouldn’t allow students to move on in a lesson until they understood the material, and when students got any part of it right, the machine would spit out positive feedback until they reached the solution. The teaching box didn’t stick in a school setting, but many computer-based self-instruction programs today use the same idea.

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5. The Verbal Summator. An auditory version of the Rorschach inkblot test, this tool allowed participants to project subconscious thoughts through sound. Skinner quickly abandoned this endeavor as personality assessment didn’t interest him, but the technology spawned several other types of auditory perception tests.