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Friday 11 May 2012

Have you seen the busy birds doing a
'worm dance' on your lawn?

They are trying to attract worms to the
surface so they can carry them
to their nests to feed their young.

Lots of other animals and insects are also working
hard to find food. Can you spot any?


 
Your challenge:  spot signs of animals feeding :O)


If you go down to the woods today...

What will you spot? Here are this week's top spots :O)

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentdownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitetop spots for this week

What have you spotted?

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Feast-spotting

This week Bev has spotted a hungry great tit eating insects around her compost bin.

Print this feast spotter sheet and see how many of the animals you can find. There's also space for you to include your own spots :O)

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentanimal feastsdownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websiteanimal feasts

What did you spot?

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Super-sleuth

Practice your skills as a nature detective by finding the signs that a feast has taken place.

Look for things like:

  • hedgehog poo - usually full of bits of beetle, yuck!
  • owl pellets - usually containing small bones and bits of fur
  • broken, empty snail shells - song thrushes bash them open to eat the snail inside

Did you find any?

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Food chains

Food chains are a great way of showing us how animals get their food. They also show the relationships between predator (the 'eater') and prey (the thing being eaten).

  • they always start with a plant
  • the plant is always eaten by an animal
  • these animals can also be eaten by other animals

Download this food chains puzzle and see if you can put the plants and animals in the right order:

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentfood chains puzzledownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitefood chains puzzle

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentdownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websiteanswers
  

  

Food chains game

Have fun completing the food chains in the ancient tree :O)

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentAncient tree food chains game boarddownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitefood chains game

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documenthow to play the ancient tree food chains gamedownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websiteinstructions

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentleaves to cut outdownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitecounters

 

 

DIY feast

If you could be an animal, which would you choose? If your animal could go on a picnic what do you think it would like to eat?

You can choose a real animal or make one up :O)

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The early bird catches the worm...

...or so the saying goes!

Help the hungry blackbird get to the wiggly worm. There are three different mazes to complete :O)

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentcatch the worm mazedownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websiteeasy peasy maze

 this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentcatch the worm maze - mediumdownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitenot too difficult maze

this nature resource for kids is a pdf document download this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitetough as old boots maze

Bev has a joke about birds eating worms:

What's the best advice you can give to a worm?

Tell it to sleep late!

Have you got any bird or worm jokes?

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A masterpiece of a feast 

Here's a great colouring sheet of a bumble bee enjoying its feast :O)

this nature resource for kids is a pdf documentbumble beedownload this resource from the nature detectives wildlife websitebumble bee

 

 

Email us your stories, photos and suggestions and they could be published on the website! 

nature detectives wildlife club arrownaturedetectives@woodlandtrust.org.uk
 

 

    
  bluebells

Spotted signs of a feast?

Stick this bluebell sticker
 on top of the green shoots
 sticker on your
 CLUB poster and get ready
for next week's challenge :O)