During ECO this week our focus was becoming birds.  Earlier in the week children made wings to help them really get into their role as birds!   In the forest children worked in pairs to first make a nest.  Once the nest was made each pair of birds was given two eggs (rocks) to put in the nest.   Colored cubes representing resources for the birds were scattered around the forest.  (Perhaps your child will remember the colors and what kind of resources each one represented.)  While one partner sat on the nest protecting the eggs, the other partner had the task of gathering resources.  Adults were obstacles the birds might face, and if an adult tagged a bird the bird had to drop all of their resources and return to the nest to switch roles with the other partner.  If both birds left the nest adults could also steal eggs.  This was a fast paced, super fun game that hopefully left children with a sense of some of the challenges birds and other animals face in meeting their daily needs and raising young.