As part of the nursery topic on Animals/Birds, all the children have been making bird cakes. If you would like the recipe please follow the instructions below.
For the bird cake you will need a strong plastic pot, a long length of string, fat and wild bird seed.
Each group of children had to find their names from a list and stick it to their pot.
We wound string around the inside of the pot.
Everyone put two handfuls of bird seed into the pot.
Hot fat was poured by Mrs O'Neill into the pot with the seeds and the string.
We waited until the bird cake cooled down and put it into the fridge.
The children tried to pull the bird cake out but it was stuck.
We decided to stand the bird cake in hot water.
Finally the bird cake was free!
We looked for trees in the nursery garden to hang our bird cakes on.
Everyone remembered the ingredients for the bird cake and we wrote down the recipe.
The cakes are a favourite with the hungry birds in Whickham.
