When I asked my daughter if there was anything she would like to learn about before we wrap up our year of school - she surprised me by saying she wanted to learn about birds. Naturally, when one thinks of the fascination of children with birds - one eventually ends up thinking of nests and eggs. Sooooo, after learning about some specific birds that my daughter was interested in and the different ways they each built nests, we decided to build one of our own to jumpstart this week's theme. :) We went outside and gathered items that a bird would use to make a nest (twigs, pine needles, grass) and turned this:
into this:
The eggs are made of blue playdough and speckled with brown marker. The white stuff is toilet paper - in our learning about birds making nests, it was noted that some use trash in their nests - and we wouldn't want our nest to stand out from a real bird's nest because of such an omission, thus trash was added. I guess in this case we could definitely say that "one man's trash is another man's - uh..er, bird's - treasure". :)
May you be inspired to go out and build a nest of your own now - complete with trash. :)
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