The children have noticed that when it is raining we find more worms in the garden. Today we decided to go on a bug hunt to discover what other bugs live in our garden. We started by reading the story of The Bug Collector.
We talked about all the different bugs in the story and which ones we though we might find today. The children also shared stories of their own bug hunts..
“I have a frog in my garden and one time a bee landed on my nose.”
“I saw a frog in the fountain at Greenbank Gardens.”
Next we got our magnifying glasses and our bug catchers and set off round the garden. The children said we need to look under things because the bugs like living underground. Look at all the worms we found…
We decided to move them somewhere safe so “the birds can’t get them.”
Then we discovered lots of spider webs but we didn’t see any spiders! We thought they must be hiding from the rain so we decided to make our own. We looked at the story of ‘Aargh Spider’ to see what the webs and the spiders look like then created some beautiful bug artwork…
“I made a bed for my spider to sleep in.”
What can you find in your garden? Please share with us @cartmillcentre
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