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Remember my post on how to bring the world to your kid when your kid can’t go into the world?
Well, this activity is one to help bring that world a little closer to your kid.
We’re making pine cone bird feeders!
We proceeded this activity with a unit on birds. And included our alphabet letter of the week: B
The long red thing? With the letter B on the bottom. You use these when play with play dough. It embosses the letter into the dough. Fun!
The first thing I did was to tie some yarn to the top of the pine cones. This will serve as our ‘hanger’.
Next comes a layer of peanut butter. While Parker can do this alone, we have to always have a pair of hands shadowing his.
Or else this happens.
We are still dealing with Parker wanting to throw things. He’s fast. And he was in RARE form today. grrrr…..
His face covered in peanut butter, Parker works hard to roll his pine cone in the bird seed.
Because my goal of this activity was to bring the goal the birds closer to Parker, I hung the pine cone bird feeders from the railing of our back porch steps.
The door to our back porch is a glass door. Parker LOVES to hang out by this window and wistfully look at his play set.
Hopefully now he can spend his time waiting for Spring meeting some fine feathered friends!
PS: Imagine Childhood has this Window Bird Feeder that I’ve been drooling over. I think it would be another excellent way to bring the birds to a medically fragile child with special needs.
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says:
Sammi brought one of those pinecone bird feeders home from school last year and a squirrel promptly demolished it. Birds got a little bit of it, though. I have a birdfeeder strapped to my deck – it’s the kind that is supposed to stand on its own (pointy bottom to go into the ground) in the yard, but we wanted to be able to view it from the window so we used velcro to stick it to the slats in the deck railing. Might be a possibility for Parker…? I love that he helped to make it!
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Hi Tammy,
I can’t believe how big Parker is getting. I wanted to thank you for the Hallmark book, Grandma and Grandpa recorded it for Sam and it is a keepsake.
I also wanted to give you another option for Parker, we got one of these for Sam and he loved it. It’s a window bird house, you can order it from:
http://www.duncraft.com/index/page/product/product_id/2363/product_name/Duncraft+Window+View+Bird+House+.
We got to watch the whole nest building, egg watching, bird hatching thing until the raccoons pulled it off the window. The joys of living in the country.
Give Parker a hug from Sam and I!
Ah! Sue! This is fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing!
Hi Tammy,
If you should decide you want a window feeder for Parker please let me know. I happen to work at Duncraft ( Sue sent you a link in the above comment) and I can get you a really good deal. Lexi has many feeders and she knows all the birds (chickadees are her favorite!) We have many window feeders. Here is a link
http://bit.ly/dSlR1r
I love your blog and Parker is a hoot!
Oh, Mindy these are great. Especially the one way mirrored ones. That is the issue we are having right now. The birds are chowing down on the pine cone bird feeders, but once they sense ANY movement…..it doesn’t even have to be close to the door, and ****poof!**** and they are gone!
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