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Fun with Birds, Feathers & Nests

There are so many fun things you can do when learning about birds. You can study and play with feathers and nests, make a bird feeder or bird house, and go on a nature hike. In this post I am going to share with you what we did during our bird themed week and a later post will be all about the family nature hike we went on where we saw many birds.

Bird Study

Caden has been noticing birds more, so I thought it would be nice for him to have his own bird book. So we took the bird picture cards from Tired, Need Sleep and glued them into a simple book. To make the book, I used four sheets of white paper, folded them in half and stapled them together on the fold to create the binding. Then Caden glued the cards to each page.

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Pretend Play

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I took these feathers out for our Painting with Feathers project, but before hand Caden had a blast jumping and dancing around flapping his feathers like a bird!

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Sensory Play

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Grandma found these two beautiful birds nests in her yard so we took them home to study. I thought it would be fun to create our own birds nest using play dough and paper shreds.

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I helped Caden form a bowl shape with the play dough and then he added

the shredded paper stuffing to create a nest for his eggs.

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Caden had a lot of fun playing with the play dough, paper shreds and Easter eggs,

as well as the real birds nests.

Fine Motor Skills

I loved this idea from Happy Hooligans to create a bird feeder using Cheerios and pipe cleaners and since I had some stale Cheerios in the cabinet I thought I would put them to good use and feed them to the birds.

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I was pleasantly surprised to see that Caden’s fine motor skills had advanced since the winter and he was able to string the Cheerios on the pipe cleaner.

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But Caden had other ideas about what to do with the Cheerios and he began to eat them!

Even the ones he had put on!

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And so we didn’t get to finish the bird feeder.

Creative Arts

Before we could use the feathers to paint with, Caden created this play dough masterpiece!

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And then later in the week we used the feathers to paint! Check it out here!

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Comments

  1. Jackie says

    June 10, 2013 at 4:16 pm

    Wow! You guys found so many ways to incorporate birds into your play and creative time! Thanks so much for mentioning our bird feeders, Samantha.

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  2. Emma @ P is for Preschooler says

    March 12, 2014 at 8:11 am

    I love birds but my daughter doesn’t share my enthusiasm. I bet she’d love some of these though! Building our own bird nests sounds interesting!

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