Cute little bird nests

I won't lie to you: this craft was a bit hit and miss. Cakey's aunt gave us some little foam birds as part of an arts and crafts kit. I knew Cakey would be capitvated by them so I put them away for a special project.

On a day trip to the country I noticed a huge ash tree was shedding loads of little twigs.... perfect to make bird nests. This was the HIT bit – Cakey loves collecting and was very excited to pile twigs into a bag to take home for the nests. We also went on a feather hunt which was great fun.

Cakey's nest without the twigs

The next day we attempted to make our nests – this was the MISS bit. How do you get a bunch of twigs to form a nest? Do birds have access to pva glue? Cakey was not in the mood for me to do any research so we had to trudge ahead. I grabbed some round takeaway containers to use as moulds. Cakey saw the containers and forgot all about the twigs and instantly glued in three birds on a big stick.

No amount of encouragement would get her to add twigs so I sat down and made a nest myself. A little bit of pva glue in the bottom of the container, some twigs, a bit more glue, more twigs and so on. I pressed it all down and glued in a cute birdie.

Building the nests

Once Cakey caught sight of my superb nest she got on board... although I think her favourite part was squeezing out the pva glue. After a few days I tried to get the nests out of their plastic container moulds but they were firmly glued in place. Oh well... you win some, you lose some.

Our birdies in the garden

I hid the nests in the garden for Cakey and Boo to find. Eventually the birds were pulled from their nests and they are still happily involved in all sorts of outdoor play.



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