Homework Choice Grid: Minibeasts

Colour in the boxes to show which activities you have done.

Visit a local park,

and keep my eyes

open for minibeasts.

Make a minibeast

themed wind chime.

Make minibeasts out

of playdough.

Play minibeast

themed ‘Who Am I?’

using headbands, or

post-it notes.

Make a minibeast

picture using my

fingerprints or

handprints.

Make a ‘minibeast

hotel’.

Take photographs of

places that I think

minibeasts might

live.

Collect pebbles

and paint them to

make them look like

different bugs.

Use paper plates

to make some

minibeasts.

Make a butterfly

garden.

Make a snack for a

hungry caterpillar.

Draw to show the

life cycles of a

butterfly and frog.

Make a paper plate

spider’s web.

Go on a bug hunt

with an adult.

Make a simple

wormery.

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For teachers - these resources support some of the activities in the homework grid:

Make Your Own Minibeast Hotel Outdoor Activity

Minibeast Hunt Sheet

Make Your Own Wormery Outdoor Activity

Minibeast Pebbles Craft Adult Led

Make Your Own Butterfly Garden

Paper Plate Spider Web with Handprint Spider Craft Instructions

Minibeasts Craft Activity Pack

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You will need:

2 bits of bread

Butter/spread

Jam

Knife

1. Get 2 bits of bread.

2. Put on the butter.

3. Add the jam.

4. Put 1 bit of bread on top.

5. Cut it up.

6. Eat it and enjoy!

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Jj Kk Ll Mm

Nn Oo Pp Qq

Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv

Ww X Yy Zz

Ee F Gg Hh Ii f

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A Minibeast Hunt Name __________________

Complete the table during our Minibeast Hunt. Where are they hiding?

Min

ibeas

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In the grass

Under a log

Under a stone

In the air

In a tree

Where did you find the most minibeasts? _____________________________________

Where did you find the least minibeasts? _____________________________________

Why do you think this was? _______________________________________________

Awe and WonderPaper Towel Colour Mixing

You will need:

Kitchen rollWater Plastic glasses

Food colouring in primary

colours

Method:

1.Put red food colouring into one glass

and blue food colouring into another

glass.Addwatertobothglasses.

2.Using 1-2 sheets of kitchen roll, rolllengthwaysintoatube.

3.Bend in half and dip one end into each

glass.

4.Watch what happens as the colours

travel.

5.What can you see happening? What

happens to the colours?

6.What colour can you see where the blue

and red meet?

The Science

Watermovesupthepapertowelbecausethepaperisabsorbent,itsucksupwater.Thecolourtravelswiththewatermakingthepaperchangefromwhitetoredorblue.Coloursmixwhentheyarejoinedtogether,redandbluemake

purple.Seewhatcolourscanbemadewithjusttheprimarycolours.

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