The British artist Catherine Wells creates beautiful birds of papier-mache. In the work she uses old magazines with color pictures. She painstakingly collects tiny torn pieces of paper — "feathers"— to create beautiful colors in the plumage of her birds. Catherine gets a lot of inspiration in Lancashire, where she lives, near atmospheric Pendle Hill. She works in a studio remade from a barn on the mills in Barrowford.
According to the artist "Only nature can create the most vivid collection of colors and combine them in the most harmonious way." Catherine Wells does not walk without a camera, after all, she has to immediately capture the birds and then recreate them in her works!
The "portraits" of the birds are put in wooden frames with a small sign that displays the name of the depicted bird. The back part and the inner part of the wooden frame are filled with clippings from magazines and books, which have information about the bird itself, and they become a very valuable addition to the portrait.
Look, what an incredible and stylish beauty:

I think that this idea can be successfully used, combined with the study of the fauna of the region. You can make these birds of papier-mache mass, which is easy to prepare at home — you will need thick white glue and old newspapers, tissues and other suitable paper.
This kind of work is very impressive and extremely useful for kids and adults — and you can also learn about the birds near the house and decorate the interior (or make a magnificent gift)!
A small bonus: here is how the "portraits" of birds are made (the photos are taken by the artist herself) — first she draws the outline of the future bird, then the contour is filled with a papier-mache mass and she forms the "body" of the bird. After drying, the base is wrapped and glued by little scraps of magazine pages. Pictures for the "plumage" must be very thoroughly picked, guided by the real coloring of the plumage of a bird. The eyes are drawn with markers or paints, you can use small beads.

Aren't they wonderful? Good luck with your experiments!