Caterpillar Game & an Eggciting Project
The birds are busy at the moment. Have you seen them carrying building materials in their beaks? Yesterday, I saw the sweetest long-tailed-tit in my garden with a frothy white feather in her mouth. We discussed how great tit females chose their partners based on how bright yellow his chest is. Did you know that a great tit's yellow plummage is strengthened in colour based on how many greeen caterpillar it eats. The more caterpillars the brighter its chest!!
We started our session with a game. The children got into groups and chose the name of a woodland bird for their group: we had cuckoos, robins, long-tits and wrens amongst others. Each group were given a special colour set of caterpillars that they had to find in the woods and off they went!!!
We then introduced the group to the traditional art of egg-blowing - this will be step 1 in a special project to create a special Easter keepsake if they wish. It took commitment and courage not to give up.
Orange Tips also had to deal with the disappointment of having to leave the woods early this week due to the high winds. It meant that they got to play 'Empire' - the bird version which they loved and is a fun game for focusing listening and memory skills - we hopefully learnt a bit about some birds along the way too!!
