Nests

March's Four Winds lesson was on birds' nests. To add our extra bit of flair Jessica and I showed up with little toy birds perched on our heads. The kiddos just LOVED this.

One of the young gentleman's friends borrowed my bird for a bit

We made one other special addition to the lesson plan. After the puppet show we opened up my laptop and played the bird calls for the types of birds that had been in the show. The kids especially loved the chickadee and phoebe because they say their own names :)

We observed and drew different nests, we matched birds to their nests based on descriptions of how they build them, and finally we got to pretend to be birds and make our own nests!

 Observations!

The young gentleman and friend with their nest.

I think the children had two favorite parts of the nest-building activity. The first was, since they had to pretend to be birds, they could only gather "a beakful" of supplies at a time. We used our index finger and thumb as our little beaks. In between supply runs, they held up their little beaks and displayed some bird calls they had learned - "chick-a-dee-dee-dee!" 

But their real favorite part was most likely getting to eat a chocolate egg out of their nest at the end :)