Nature detective worksheets

Some of the worksheets from Nature Detectives

I have also started to help some new Children's University members, by showing them things I liked doing when I first started. We made pictures from leaves and things we found in the park and a twig tower.

  

Creepy House reading trail

I read 27 short books this summer

British Music Experience

This is the cardboard guitar I made. It was connected to an amp and we could hear the notes.

There are loads of instruments to play. There are video tutorials and headphones so only you can hear what you are playing.

British Museum CU? NOT in passport

This was a great day out with so much to go... I found these photos only this year and realised that I had not added this to my CU passport as I had forgotten, but I have added it to my blog. 

I had lots of fun painting, designing and creating my own brick to be displayed in an artists wall in the British Museum. You can see how many other children liked this activity to by the size of the wall. The photo only shows about 1/3 of the whole wall.

Natural History Museum - Rocks and Minerals

There are lots of different worksheets you can do at the Natural History museum. They all cost £1 each. This one is about the rocks and minerals they have there. It was very interesting.

LAMPA

Hunt Fun - A treasure hunt around Croydon

A Treasure hunt around Croydon

The Bank Museum and Monument

The Bank of England Museum has a lot of different worksheets for CU children to do. At the end of the day they gave me a badge and postcard for completing them. 

I learnt that a gold bar weighs 13kg and is worth about £347,372. The Bank does not own very much of the gold in the vault. Today's bank notes have features such as raised print and metallic thread to stop people from copying them. 

I also went to the top of the Monument as it is near the Bank of England. There are 311 steps to get to the top. The monument is there to remember where the Great Fire of London started.

Bowie at The V&A - Workshop NOT CU

  

  

 

This was a really good workshop.The idea was to make a record cover.I loved this day. I had to design my make up , have a photo shoot, design my cover, choose the best photo and then put it all together. The V&A were not signed up to the CU at this time... but it was a perfect workshop to be part of it.

Croydon Library Treasure Trail

These are some of the worksheets you can do at the Croydon Library.

Comic making workshop - Croydon Library

1.5 hours

A good lesson about how to make comics. This was at the library.

It's Spring

Nature detectives treasure hunt


Frog spawn

Tadpoles

Snow Drops

Planting seeds in Spring

Nature detectives planting seeds

Today I planted peas, pansies and nicotiana. The pea seeds are bigger. They also grow faster.

Next I covered them with soil and watered them.

This lid keeps the seeds warm.

2nd April I planted dwarf beans, three different sunflowers and poppies.


These are the peas, pansies and nicotiana after 2 weeks

These are the roots of the peas. I have potted them up into a bigger pot today.

Winter things to make

These are all from the Nature detectives

Snowman chain

Twig star

Paper snowflake

Snow angel

Winter Badges