Feeding Baby Birds | NATURE Nuggets

Help your child observe how and what this mother bird feeds her babies.
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NATURE Nuggets brings science and animals from NATURE on PBS to kids and their caregivers. Use the activities below to create active learning and engagement opportunities with your child.

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DISCUSS
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FRAME: ”What kinds of things do we need to grow up strong?” [food, water, place to live, etc.] What kinds of things do animals need? [the same things]”

FOCUS: “In this video, baby birds are getting fed. As you watch, pay attention to who helps them get their food.”

FOLLOW-UP: Let’s mix it up again. Send us your idea for a great follow-up activity in the Commentssection below. To send us photos and videos of how you used This Nature Nuggets at home, reach out
to us by texting NATURE to 30644!

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ACTIVITY IDEAS
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NEST WALK: Go on a walk in your neighborhood and look out for nests on trees.

GET CRAFTY: Paint one of the children’s hands with brown paint (or have them dip their hands in the paint!). Then press it down on paper with their fingers facing sideways. Paint just the tips of their fingers on the other hand another color and have them make fingerprint eggs in their hand nest. Draw or paint a tree around the nest!

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RELATED BOOKS
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Mama Bird, Baby Birds by Angela Johnson

A Nest Full of Eggs by Priscilla Belz Jenkins

The Happy Egg by Ruth Krauss

Are You My Mother? By P.D. Eastman

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