Have your kids gotten into melted beads yet? You can buy them in a big container and do so many different types of projects! I have never seen a project using them and a muffin tin, but it looks so easy it’s a must try! She even suggests making them for Father’s Day…great idea! You can find the tutorial over at Sugar Bee Crafts.
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Bird Learning Activities for Kids
As it starts to warm up in the spring, lots of new creatures arrive on the scene, including baby birds and birds that migrated south for the winter and are returning with the spring. There are lots of fun ways to learn about birds, so let’s get going!
First you might want to talk about the life cycle of a bird. This craft from I Heart Crafty Things is specifically about chickens, but of course you could color your bird in different ways to have it represent a different bird if you want. (The book From Egg to Chicken is another great way to teach the life cycle of birds to younger kids.)
Observe birds outside more easily by making them bird feeders. You can make them out of egg cartons, like this one from Crafts on Sea, or out of fruit rinds, like this one from Thimble & Twig.
Make a cute bird’s nest craft using a paper plate and dot markers with this tutorial from 3 Dinosaurs. Or have kids go on a scavenger hunt in the yard or on the playground so they can make their own nests. All the details are at The Crazy Outdoor Mama.
Embark on the Journey has a lovely backyard birds unit study with printables you can download when you enter your email address. It has three-part cards, a word scramble, journal pages for recording observations and more.
If you want to add some STEM to your bird learning activities, you can learn about how to build a nest and give it a try with this STEM challenge from Views from a Stepstool. This gives you a chance to talk about the things birds use to make their nests and how they actually do it to keep their eggs safe.
Or you can learn about how different kinds of bird beaks work for the kinds of jobs they need to do, with this experiment from Left Brain Craft Brain. It will get kids thinking about what different birds eat and how the shape of their beaks makes it easier to access that food. Kids will have lots of fun with this one as they find the best tools to use on different “foods.”
Ann Andle says
When I was in Connecticut last month visiting my daughter a grandchildren, I told e daugher about the sun cathers that i had seen with the beads. you have to understad that both of us are seniors, but we felt like she was a kid again and we were up late just watching what happened. I plan on making sun catchers, and then had the idea,why not about christmas decorations, have realy good cookie cuterrs for that. So many ideas if we just use our imgaition, my spellinI’m going to save your site so I can enjoy your ideas.