This project is not going to win any awards, in fact the finished product is, quite frankly, ugly.  We did it because the children loved making the bird’s nest, especially the gathering of nature’s materials. What else could we do, with leaves, sticks, grasses and the stuff nature had left on the ground, I wondered. So,  by cutting a door in a milk carton and gluing nature’s bounty all over it, we created a birdhouse. This isn’t really about  handsomely housing birds,  but about foraging for the stuff and using the glue gun.