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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | Rhymes  Number rhymes Activity printables, counting songs and poems for preschool nursery           Springtime bird nest and chick rhyme 5 baby chicks in a springtime nest small and fluffy with little feathers on their chests along came xx who looked up one day saw a parent bird fly in then away what was mummy or daddy bird doing? Keeping the chicks warm Cleaning the nest Feeding the babies?     Baby bird printable    springtime nest Build this rhyming game by first printing, cutting out and colour filling the following pieces:   1x  nest   1x sheet of baby chicks   1x side view of each parent bird   1x copy of the rhyme & play guide   resources needed   Paper   Laminating pouches   Colouring tools - chunky crayons   Thread or string   Hole punch on amazon.co.uk    Rhyming word sheet  parent bird left side and parent bird right side Assemble the role play resource 1. Glue the rhyme to the front of an A4 piece of paper and laminate 2. Glue the left and right parent sides together and laminate 3. Laminate the chicks and nest Trim all pieces. 4. Position the nest at the base of the A4 sheet and hole punch together, tie with cord or string to secure them. This will enable the chicks to slot in and out of the nest   PLAY   Pass out as many parent birds as wished.   Recite the rhyme and then ask what the parent bird was doing.   Have willing volunteers come up and do a fly by with their parent bird.   Maybe they take a chick back with them to help it learn how to fly?   Recite the rhyme again with a reduction to the number of chicks in the nest.. Other springtime resources