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Bird Nest Playdough Activity
Make your own cute playdough birds and
build nests for them to raise chicks in!
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Basic Playdough Recipe Here.
YOU WILL NEED
Selection of yellow & Orange papers & materials
Circular wicker basket ~ The nest
Hay
Strips of brown paper.
Brown Playdough
Pencil
– tool for making the bird eye impressions
Scissors to cut triangle beaks.
ACTIVITY
Talk about how birds make a warm nest to lay their eggs in.
How they incubate the eggs and then care for the chicks once hatched.
Make the birds by rolling a large ball of dough for the body and one slightly
smaller for the head.
Join the two together.
For each wing roll a smaller ball of dough and squash it.
Mould it to the side of the bird and then repeat for another wing.
Use a variety of materials & fabrics to cut a triangle beak from.
Push into place and make some eyes with a pencil tip or modelling tool.
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