minibeasts

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i'm planning a minibeasts theme for May does anyone have any good websites, or activities I could plan with the children?

[sarah707]

Try putting 'minibeast' into the search bar... lots of threads come up :D

[Cammie Doodle]

:) We do a bug hunt / tally every year.The kids of all ages love this and cant wait to tick the laminated sheet on the wall . Bless them :D

[miffy]

There are some lovely minibeast things on this site that Sarah posted the other day

http://www.tpet.co.uk/#/search/minibeasts

Miffy xx

[Tink]

Thank you x x x

[PixiePetal]

http://www.naturedetectives.org.uk/

love this site :thumbsup:

[angeldelight]

i'm planning a minibeasts theme for May does anyone have any good websites, or activities I could plan with the children?

We are also doing this at the moment

One thing we did do was make a spiders web using white wool but I guess you could use anything really , the kids made a black body on black card and lay the cotton out to make a web, they stuck it down and then put glitter over the top - simple and easy and the kids loved it
The web sparkles in the sun

Also we made some jelly and used little jelly sweets shaped like spiders and snakes ( think they were from sainsburys ) put them in the jelly and left to set - the kids tried to get them out of the jelly - sensory play
Once again messy but fun

I have a few more ideas I will come back later and add

Angel xxx

[angeldelight]

http://www.naturedetectives.org.uk/

love this site :thumbsup:

Love this site too loads of great stuff to inspire you

Angel xx

[mrs c]

http://www.kinderplans.com/content.cfm?pageid=200
might be something on here you could use

[ageinghippy]

Do you have local park rangers??
Ask them if they can do a walk or pond dipping for you and a group of children, maybe ask other minders to get together.

I love this theme :jump for joy:

Have fun

Kate x

[mum26]

Hi, I'm also covering minibeasts during May, focussing initially on The Very Hungry Caterpillar then moving on to others. The sites and ideas mentioned are brilliant - thanks will help me lots too.

[monkey62]

I do cover minobest as well this month
You can get some ideas from here
www.123child.com

[cherry]

I found some great ideas on this site, thank you monkey62 :thumbsup: