1 birds nest role play
Role-play Bird’s Nest
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Tips
• Build this simple role play nest from recyclable materials as a bird-watching base whilst educating about birds and their habitats.
• Provide OLME Bird ID charts, binoculars and cuddly toy birds.
• You may want to build this yourself ready for the children to enjoy; or to involve the children in the construction process.
• Make bird hats to aid species ID and also to provide a fun way of limiting numbers in the nest at one time.
Method
Resources
• Nest: Cardboard boxes (3 or 4), bark, twigs, leaves, shredded paper, ripped newspaper, strong stapler, glue, sticky tape; string.
• Bird Hats: cardboard, coloured card, glue, stapler.
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• Open out your cardboard boxes and cut off the top flaps. Leave the bottom flaps on as these make your nest more stable, (they may need trimming slightly). How many boxes you need depends on how large you want your nest.
• Staple them together in a circle. Use parcel tape to secure the joins.
• Attach strips of nature coloured cardboard and shredded paper. Alternatively, you may want to decorate your nest with natural materials such as bark twigs or leaves.
Extra Ideas
• The children could collect natural materials to fill the nest on the inside.
• The children could have a go at building mini bird nest from natural materials.
• You could create ‘bird hats’ to reinforce bird ID and also use this to limit how many can enter the nest at once. (e.g. 4 bird hats = 4 children in the nest at one time.) The bird hats could be made from a simple strip of card with a printed picture of a bird attached to the front, (scroll down for bird pictures).
Roleplay Bird’s Nest
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Cut out and laminate the following bird picture and attach it to a strip of card to make a bird hat.
Blue Tit
Roleplay Bird’s
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Cut out and laminate the following bird picture and attach it to a strip of card to make a bird hat.
Chaffinch
Roleplay Bird’s
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Cut out and laminate the following bird picture and attach it to a strip of card to make a bird hat.
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Roleplay Bird’s
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Cut out and laminate the following bird picture and attach it to a strip of card to make a bird hat.
Goldcrest
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OUTDOOR LEARNING SITE DEVELOPMENT IDEAS
Tips
• Build this simple role play nest from recyclable materials as a bird-watching base whilst educating about birds and their habitats.
• Provide OLME Bird ID charts, binoculars and cuddly toy birds.
• You may want to build this yourself ready for the children to enjoy; or to involve the children in the construction process.
• Make bird hats to aid species ID and also to provide a fun way of limiting numbers in the nest at one time.
Method
Resources
• Nest: Cardboard boxes (3 or 4), bark, twigs, leaves, shredded paper, ripped newspaper, strong stapler, glue, sticky tape; string.
• Bird Hats: cardboard, coloured card, glue, stapler.
www.outdoorlearningmadeeasy.co.uk ©
• Open out your cardboard boxes and cut off the top flaps. Leave the bottom flaps on as these make your nest more stable, (they may need trimming slightly). How many boxes you need depends on how large you want your nest.
• Staple them together in a circle. Use parcel tape to secure the joins.
• Attach strips of nature coloured cardboard and shredded paper. Alternatively, you may want to decorate your nest with natural materials such as bark twigs or leaves.
Extra Ideas
• The children could collect natural materials to fill the nest on the inside.
• The children could have a go at building mini bird nest from natural materials.
• You could create ‘bird hats’ to reinforce bird ID and also use this to limit how many can enter the nest at once. (e.g. 4 bird hats = 4 children in the nest at one time.) The bird hats could be made from a simple strip of card with a printed picture of a bird attached to the front, (scroll down for bird pictures).
Roleplay Bird’s Nest
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Cut out and laminate the following bird picture and attach it to a strip of card to make a bird hat.
Blue Tit
Roleplay Bird’s
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OUTDOOR LEARNING SITE DEVELOPMENT IDEAS
Cut out and laminate the following bird picture and attach it to a strip of card to make a bird hat.
Chaffinch
Roleplay Bird’s
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OUTDOOR LEARNING SITE DEVELOPMENT IDEAS
Cut out and laminate the following bird picture and attach it to a strip of card to make a bird hat.
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Roleplay Bird’s
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Cut out and laminate the following bird picture and attach it to a strip of card to make a bird hat.
Goldcrest
