This week at Club Wild we had great fun making pooters, finding and soaking up mini beasts. Pooters are a great way to examine mini beasts up close.We made them by first making two holes in the top of a jar, taking two lengths of plastic tubing (15 and 25cm long), securing some gauze over the shorter one. We put yellow tape on the end of this tube and red tape on the end of the other longer piece and put plasticine round the holes to make our pooter air tight.
Now we are ready to pooter! Red to catch bugs and yellow to sook. It was funny to see how fast the bugs zoomed up the tubes and into our jars. Under logs in the playground we found beetles and woodlice, spiders and spider mites, millipedes and centipedes and we got to see the detail of their body parts, their legs and watch them move all before we set them free.
Club Wild, Mrs Young and Sarah-Jane
