Wordless Wednesday #57 w/linky | Waddle, Waddle

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Birds Nest Craft

Continuing with our Birds Unit and moving on to Nest and the letter Nn.

We started off by reading "Are You My Mother?" by P.D. Eastman

The story is about a little bird who hatches from his egg and wonder's where's his mother and begins a journey to find her. 

After reading the it was time for our Birds Nest Craft, which we actually started yesterday.

 We gathered our supplies:
Yarn
Glue
Water
Balloons
Scissors
Plastic cups
Tot Trays
Smocks
Large Bowl
Rags for clean up

Already having our balloons blown and waiting in cups...

 First I poured a small bottle of glue into the bowl, added water to thin it out. I used the bag to protect my bowl. The mix should be milk consistency, I believe that worked best for us, too thick they take too long to dry. I still have two drying.

I gathered a pile of yarn and she placed all of in the bowl and soaked it.

 Now she place the yarn on top of the balloon and let dry.

 And here is the finished product, I love them!

For more fun we took the bottom of a plastic Easter egg, added googly eyes and a beak to place in the nest.  Now we have a baby bird.

Also right now we have birds building a nest right outside my dining room window. We are able to see them building all day and they also sit on my rocking chair and sing! Awesome timing for this to happen!

But there could be a problem, over the weekend it was Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal, now yesterday and today Mr. & Mrs. Wren have moved in. Then I saw Mr. Cardinal fly out of the nest this morning. Now we have two bird species trying to claim the nest. Oh Boy! We will just watch and see.   

Thanks for visiting us today,

Lori

Craft found Here.

Angry Birds | Bean Bag Craft

This week we have been on Birds, so I thought it would be fun to make a craft with the children of something they all seem to know and love! I found the Angry Birds craft here and had all the supplies on hand.

 Supplies Used:
red, blue, green, yellow, and black felt
googly eyes
hot glue or you can sew together
marker to trace a circle or free hand
scissors
beans

Cut your circles (2 circles for each color) ,beaks, hair, and eyebrows out.

Use the hot glue to adhere the above to your circle along with your googly eyes first.

Take the other circle and use the hot glue around the circle leaving a small opening to add beans, place face on top, press firmly around. 

Add beans, glue in the hole and that's it!

They turned out super cute! But I do believe I need to sew around the edges, we did lose a few beans and had to glue it again.

Thanks for visiting, if you make this craft let me know so I can come see your Angry Birds.

Lori


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Spring Bird Unit

Today we began our "Bird Unit" by reading the book Beaky. Love this book and it kept the children very engaged.

Beaky

by: Jez Alborough

An egg tumbled to the rain forest floor and out popped Beaky! He was uncertain of what kind of creature he was but very determined to find out.

After reading Beaky went over our lap book and then began the unit curriculum.

Learning Warm Colors. Color the bird house Red, Yellow, and Orange. 

 Learning Cool Colors. Color the bird house Blue, Purple, and Green.

 Coloring the Letter Bb

Although we completed our Letter Bb, I consider this reinforcing this letter. 

 Pre-writing tracing the letter Bb

Count the leaves on the tree and circle the correct number in the box.

Bird Unit found here and here.

Spring Theme | Bird Unit

This week we have finally begun our Spring Unit. We are beginning with Birds.

 On the left and right of the lap book are pictures of things about birds.

 Here is a bird color book. Each page is to color the bird a certain color.

 Here the children had a cut and paste to separate birds from the bird houses.

Pre-writing, Help the birds find their homes. I laminated these so they could reuse.

I made them a "Our Backyard Birds" book that we read and will identify as we see them in our yard or neighborhood.

And that was our day, thanks for visiting us!
Lori

Unit from Here