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Playdough Bird Nests

Preschool and Early Years fun - easy activity ideas using playdough !

Bird Nest Playdough Activity

Make your own cute playdough birds and build nests for them to raise chicks in!

Make your own dough birds & thier nests!

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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.