I haven't been blogging at all lately. Not looking, not posting! I have been insanely busy! But I am vowing to do so at least once a week now; with posts about what we here at Wiggles and Giggles Home Day Care have been up to!
This weeks ideas and activities are based all around birds! We made bird cakes! :) I saw this post over here and thought that it would make a great learning experience for my littles! Motor skills, sensory skills, listening skills, cause and affect, and science!!
So to start we saved our plastic cups from our peaches......it made the perfect size and shape!
I used a screw and punched 2 holes in the bottom of the cup
I glued 2 wooden kabob skewers together to make an X -this will be the perch
I threaded our yarn through the bottom of the cup (from the outside to the inside) down around the underside of the skewers (so the yarn holds the skewers in place) and up through the second hole from the inside of the cup to the outside.
While I worked on getting the perchs' ready - the kids mixed up their bird seed mixture. I put it in zipper bags and had them squeeze to mix it well. They found plenty of other ways to get the job done. A couple of them even squished it flat with their bellys!
After all was mixed well - the kids got to get gooey!! They dug in and filled their fruit cups to the top.
Once the cups were packed well, I popped them in the freezer to speed up the hardening process. About an hour later, I removed them from the cups and hung them up for the birds!
