‘Home schoolers, we salute you!

The Wat Tyler Education Team here are missing the school groups and members of the public we get to see at this time of year. 

We hope you are well and coping.

While we are apart, we wondered if you’d like some activity ideas to try at home. We hope that the ideas we bring over the next days be give you some interest or fun. 

Keep well and happy!

Make your minibeasts.

                If you are not able to go on a minibeast hunt for real right now, why don’t you make some model ones?

                You could make paper cut-outs, use plasticine, lego, or even salt-dough. If you have a garden you could look out for real ones or put your models in it!

Try to make some from different groups.  Minibeasts are grouped by the number of legs they have….

0 legs:           molluscs, like slugs and snails and seashell creatures or the worms and leeches.

(Ignore 2 and 4 legs! They’re not normally minibeasts!)

6 legs:           insects –they also have wings, though sometimes they’re hidden. Most have four wings. E.g. dragonflies.

8 legs:           arachnids: spiders, mites and scorpions. No wings.

10 legs:         decapods –crabs and lobsters

12+ legs:      shrimps and woodlice

80  legs:        (Perhaps snip paper for lots of legs?)  centipedes. (Yes, I know they should have a hundred. They don’t, usually!)

There are millipedes of course…. They have 500 legs but perhaps it’s best to give up before that point!

Hope you have fun!’