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Hello and welcome to 'Woodland Wonders’ - our theme for Week 4!
For our last week we will discover the wildlife of woodland habitats.
Activity Sheet 1
Woodland Leaves
Below are some common leaves you might find in a forest or woodland. You could find them on walks outdoors, or you could also ask an adult to look them up with you. Can you fill in the details and colours?
Activity Sheet 2
Woodpecker Paper Scuplture
There are three types of woodpeckers in the UK - the Great Spotted Woodpecker, the Green Spotted Woodpecker and the less common Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Can you look them up with a grown up and colour your woodpecker paper sculpture to match one?
Activity Sheet 3
Design Your Own Mushrooms
Mushrooms, also know as fungi, grow in all sorts of places but many like forest and woodland environments. There are thought to be about 15,000 species of wild mushrooms in the UK of many different shapes, sizes and colours. We should never touch them as some can be poisonous, many using bright colours and patterns to warn of this to other animals, but they can be interesting to look at.
Use the sheet below to design your own mushrooms in bright colours and patterns!
This week’s Nature Journal activities
Let’s make our last entries into our Nature Journals!
This week your Nature Journal activities are to:
Use this page to draw the wildlife you see living in forests, woodlands or trees. Can you name any of them?
Sometimes we can miss all the small details around us. Play the Woodland Investigators game and see if you can find something from each of the descriptions! You can also draw or write what you find in the circle underneath. Remember some plants shouldn’t be touched, so play this game with a grown up. But you can also find some things by looking carefully!
Lots of the life we find in the woods and forests happens above us in the trees. What would you see if you spent 10 minutes looking up and drawing what you could find?
Can you imagine what it feels like to live up there as a bird or squirrel? What would you be able to see that you can’t from the ground? Would there be different sounds or smells? Would it be colder or warmer? What do you think you might find? You can a list describing what would be different, or you could write a short story imagining how it would feel if you could jump up to the tops of the trees!
August Art Adventurers is now finished! The sheet below is to help you think about what you most enjoyed and would like to learn more about in the future. We would love for you to share this with us us a photograph at librarian@thelibraryofnature.com!
We hope you had a great time doing the August Art Adventurers course!
Don’t forget to take a photo of your completed Art Adventurers Award and send it to us with some pictures of the artwork you have made to librarian@thelibraryofnature.com so we can enter you into our prize draw to win a years membership to The Library Of Nature!
Keep exploring the nature around you and being creative Art Adventurers!