Meadows Outdoor Learning in the Garden

During this time of ‘Stay at Home’ and whilst the weather is fabulous, I would encourage all of you that can to get out into your garden.

There is so much you can do while out in the sunshine; below is just a small list of ideas: 1) Make a potion- grab a bucket, a stick or an old spoon and collect together sticks, mud,

sand, leaves, grass, petals and whatever else you can find that would make the most fabulous George’s Marvellous Medicine, witches brew or unicorn soup! (Please make sure you check with parents/ carers that you can have items before you remove the

petals from a rare orchid or the leaves from the herb patch!)

Please remember- after making the mixture, use the experience to write a recipe, a set of

instructions, a description or use it as a stimulus for a story.

2) Make a minibeast/ animal home- use the natural materials in your garden to make a bed for beetles, a luxury pad for a ladybird, a nest for a newt, a hotel for a hedgehog or

a mansion for a maggot.

3) Make natural art images- Make mud paint (instructions below); create a piece of natural art with leaves and sticks (see the art work of Andy Goldsworthy:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zh4wmp3)

Mud Paint Recipe: Mud

WaterFood colouring/ powder paint/ watercolour paint

Washing up liquid (a squirt) Mix to a paste (experiment with the consistency to get the perfect paint) and paint onto thick

card (the inside of an old cereal box is perfect).

4) Shadow animals – create them, shade them/ colour them or use different materials/ mediums to fill in your outlines.

5) Water bottle bird feeder: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-to-make-a-bird-feeder.html

6) Science shadow activity- - Make a sundial/ sun clock

http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/kids/summer_activities/make_sundial2.shtml

Have fun, enjoy the sun and take photographs of what you have done so that you can share them all with us when you are back in school.

Take care everyone.