Suggested Materials for Conducting a Flying WILD Training
By having these items on-hand for a Flying WILD Training, participants
and facilitators will have all materials listed for every activity.
Pencils
Orange or red balloons
Bird field guides (5 to 10)
Colored pencils
Empty film canisters (10)
Binoculars (5 to 10) pairs
Markers
3-4 large garbage bags with
Bird feathers from craft store
Paint supplies (paint,
“soft” but heavy weights
CD of bird songs
brushes)
(pillow)
CD player
Paper towels
Shoe box
Materials to make bird
Scotch Tape
2 buckets or plastic bin
feeders—milk jugs, milk
Masking or packing tape
Red balloons
cartons, coffee cans,
Glue
Orange Balloons
sticks or dowels, pie tins
White paper
Hand lens
clothes hangers, pliers,
Notebook paper
Flashlight (with batteries)
wire cutters
Butcher paper
Hand wipes
Pine cones
Construction paper—
Rope (two 10ft long pieces)
Additional materials and
various colors
Modeling clay
foods for beak simulation
Poster board
12 water bottles
(“Fill the Bill”)—
Envelopes
Cooking oil
chopsticks, pliers, scoop
Paper grocery sacks
Dish washing soap/detergent
or slotted spoon, strainer,
Sticky notes
50 tokens (such as poker
small fish net, tweezers,
Several spools of thick
chips), four different colors
tongs, tall, narrow vase
string
Tennis ball or Frisbee
or beaker, saucepan,
Yarn
Plastic rings
Styrofoam chunks,
Calculator
2 Hula Hoops
Perishable foods:
Two 12-inch rulers
Golf club (putter) or toy putter
sliced apples and oranges,
Yard stick
Golf ball
peanuts (both shelled and
5 paper cups
Blindfolds
unshelled), peanut butter,
5 Styrofoam cup
Small scale
oatmeal, lard, flour,
Coffee stirrers
Large scale (for measuring
cornmeal, raisins,
Straws
person’s weight)
cranberries, 4 raw eggs,
Rubber bands
Wildlife magazines for
popcorn, small
Plastic Ziploc freezer bags
illustrations/photos of birds
marshmallows, rice,
Plastic wrap
and other wildlife
puffed rice, gummy
Newspapers
Bird reference books
worms, oatmeal, cherries
Small white paper plates
Natural history information
with stems, nuts in shell,
twigs
about birds in your area
suet
Articles relating to birds from
Bird seed/food:
newspapers, magazines, or
Sunflower seeds (shelled
websites
and unshelled)
Maps of bird migration routes
Cracked corn
Thistle seed