Spring - Birds - Nature walk & nests

Because Thursday is the first day of spring, we are learning about springy things this week.  We started off with birds.

In circle time I asked the kiddos, my fours, what they know about birds.  I prompted them on a few bits, but here is what we came up with.

We also talked about what birds use to make their nests, then we took a walk to gather those nature bits.  The kiddos were most excited about the copious pine cones, but they got a few other small bits in their bags too.

 This is a fabulous nest left over from last year that we spotted in a neighbor's tree.  It was great to actually find a real one!

 When we got back to the preschool we dumped out our nature bags and looked at what we collected (mostly pine cones), then using a lunch sack (cut the top half off and roll down a bit) we made nests. We used pom poms as eggs.

For our snack we made edible nests (chow mein noodles, choc chips, peanut butter, marshmallows).  We filled them with jelly bean eggs and a peep bird.  One of my fours does not like chocolate, so he nested his eggs in his hand.  Ha ha!

 

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