Letter N: N is for Nest, Build a Nest Pretend Play, Feed the Baby Birds (Day 2)

1) N is for Nest from The Measured Mom: I cut out all the pieces from construction paper and Easton glued them all on. Review a few colors and shapes - oval, circle, rectangle, triangle.

2) Build a Nest Pretend Play from Craftulate: Easton loves to pretend play, so I knew he would love this activity!

• Watch a youtube video of a mother bird building a nest. 
• Set up four stations, each with items to build bird nests. We used craft sticks, sticks, train tracks and scrunched paper.
• Add plastic eggs from the dollar store and Safari Birds TOOB from amazon. 

3) Feed the Birds in a Nest from Powerful Mothering: I love this idea working with fine motor skills. Did you notice the worms are in the shape of an N?

• Make baby birds by hot gluing googly eyes and an orange felt beak onto large pom poms.
• Place the baby birds into plastic eggs and then into a "nest" (an empty egg carton).
• After the baby birds hatch, have your child pretend to be the mother or father bird. Use tweezers to feed the baby birds their dinner, "worms" - cute pipe cleaners shaped into an N shape.. The nest is an empty egg carton. Once the eggs "hatched" it was Easton's job was to feed the baby birds "worms" - pipe cleaners shaped to also review the letter N.
• Let your child use his/her imagination!