Charley Harper’s Sticky Birds: An Animal Sticker Kit

This sticker kit holds lots of simple shapes to stick together to make pictures of 12 different birds like those drawn by Charley Harper. The booklet shows the birds to be assembled; creative minds will also come up with their own imaginary avian assemblages. Charley Harper’s Sticky Birds provides creative fun for stickering alone, or as a game: see who can put together a bird the fastest!

Charley Harper

Midcentury modernist Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007) portrayed the natural world with heart and humor. In vivid colors and simple shapes, his cardinals, ladybugs, and clever critters have become icons of wildlife art. His illustrations were published in magazines and books, notably Ford Times and The Giant Golden Book of Biology. A longtime conservationist, Harper created posters for more than 50 nature- and conservation-oriented organizations. His US National Park Service posters—massive, requiring a year each to paint—showcase delightful depictions of entire ecosystems in a style he defined as “minimal realism.” In his adopted hometown of Cincinnati, his public works are the legacy of an artist truly beguiled by the wild, one whose art was a quiet catalyst for ecological action.