Another lovely event at the reserve.
Bug in a bag (there is that alliteration thing again).
The children love this one. I use my paper fold box/bag net with some printing on. These are easy; my original best idea (one of them anyway, she said modestly) for a really versatile event activity.
I’ve adapted the box net for loads of different things;
they can be decorated flat (Sooo much easier!) then assembled (OK, usually by “moi”) when done.
This time the children made a little bug (more about that in a mo) and popped it in to the bag to carry home. The bag gave them scope for naming their bug and adding some facts (or even a back-story!!) and also an opportunity to think about habitats etc.
Neat. More stealth learning.
For the bug to go in the bag we wanted a different bug instead of our normal paper and wire versions, and thought of making things using wood from the site.[ It’s great that we have different styles – together inspire each other and come up with all sorts of different things.]
My friend spent ages sawing and sanding bits of twig to use as the bug body; and we used up lots small scraps of nice card we hadn’t been able to bring ourselves to throw away.
So as a bonus it was practically free… if you don’t count labour 🙂
They turned out F.A.B !
A step up from the first idea! Add in the children’s natural creativity, and voila!
Bug in a bag, extraordinaire.
As you can see the children were very inventive, although we did have a lot of the ubiquitous butterflies they seem to love above all else!
We also had a neat life cycle disc; mounted on recycled CDs for the older guys. Plus caterpillar bookmarks…
…and one very LARGE caterpillar!
This little chap laboured on; working his way patiently through some old, almost exhausted, felt pens (we need more cash!)
to finish this Opus Magnus.
And we found these abandoned when we tidied up!
Probably someone’s idea of what we looked like by the end of the day.
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