Check out this recipe for Easy Bird Treats
Shared by Amanda Formaro at FamilyCorner.com.
What You Need:
1 slice of sandwich bread for each hanger
cookie cutter or paring knife
yarn or other strong piece of string or cord
peanut butter or vegetable shortening
Wild bird seed
What you do:
Use a cookie cutter to create shapes from slices of sandwich bread. We did stars and circles for our treats.
Let bread sit on the counter until dried out, a couple of hours should do the trick.
Line a plate with bird seed.
Use a toothpick or wooden skewer to poke a hole through the bread for the string. Be sure that you leave enough room above the hole so that it doesn't tear.
Thread string through the hole and gently tie in a knot.
Spread both sides of bread shape with peanut butter. Coat with bird seed by laying it on the bird seed lined plate and turning over to coat thoroughly.
Hang your creation outside.
Editor's note: Try to hang your treats in close proximity to a branch that the birds can perch on while sampling their goodies.
Discovery Bottles are soda bottles filled with various items to explore a scientific or language arts concepts. Some of the bottles, such as the relaxation, glitter, corn syrup and wave bottle to calm children. You can use 1 liter or 20 ounce soda/water bottles. The mini water bottles also work well for little hands.
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Ideas for Earth Day
If you’re looking for an easy Earth Day activity, Eileen at Little Acorn Learning shared this activity and a poem.
Earth Bracelets
Supplies Needed:
Wide Masking Tape
Prior to your nature walk today, make a masking tape bracelet around each child’s wrist (sticky part facing out). While walking, encourage the children to pick up small nature items to stick onto their bracelet. When you return, place found items into small jars or baskets and display in your nature space. Here is a sweet verse to share while you do this activity:
The Miracle Verse
~ Harriet H. Fierson
A baby seed all dressed in brown,
Fell out of its cradle one day;
The West Wind took
it with loving arms
And carried it far away.
He laid it down on a bed of leaves,
And hid it with blankets white:
And there it slept like a weary child,
Through the
long, dark winter night.
It woke at last, when the springtime came,
And stretched
its arms on high,
And it grew and grew through the livelong day,
Toward the sun and
the clear, blue sky.
It drew its food from its Mother Earth,
And it drank the cooling
shower,
Till the small, brown seed was changed at last
To a sweet, wild, wayside
flower!