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Bird's Nest
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DOMAIN(S)Cognitive Development and General Knowledge (CD)
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INDICATOR(S)CD-CR4.3d, CD-CR4.3d
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AGE GROUP(S)36-48 months
Start with a baby pool covered in brown paper. Add shredded paper and paper maché eggs or large plastic eggs. Have the children sit in the pool and pretend to be birds. Read Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman and discuss how birds build their nest and sit in the nest with the eggs until the baby birds hatch.