Plastic wormery (c) Holly Jones
Activities for families
As well as including children in gardening activities, The Wildlife Watch website (our junior branch) has loads of indoor and outdoor ideas to keep little ones entertained - children can learn more about plants and animals, download spotter sheets and play online games.
We have put a few downloadable activity sheets below:
Downloadable activity sheets
Outdoor activities
- How to go pond dipping (225.61 KB)
- Make a pond dipping net (187.75 KB)
- Make a mini wildlife pond (3.94 MB)
- How to make a pooter (4.18 MB)
- How to make a birdhide (3.45 MB)
- Build a hibernaculum (4.32 MB)
- Make a footprint trap (3.71 MB)
- How to make natural dyes (4.38 MB)
- How to make a tumble trap (3.28 MB)
- Mark and recapture snails (3.82 MB)
- Make a wormery (4.32 MB)
- Make a small mammal tunnel (4.19 MB)
- Make a butterfly table (3.79 MB)
- Make dandelion tea (3.38 MB)
- Make a simple hedgehog house (3.55 MB)
- Make a bumblebee nest (3.52 MB)
- Make an insect hotel (5.52 MB)
- Make a bird feeder (1.34 MB)
- Make hidey holes for wildlife (13.26 MB)
Indoor activities
- Make a bottle basking shark (3.12 MB)
- Make a butterfly painting (427.47 KB)
- Make an egg carton creature (2.54 MB)
- Make a treasure chest (1.26 MB)
- Make a tree decoration (3.35 MB)
- Make a bird feeder (165.61 KB)
- Make an edible pond (233.4 KB)
- butterfly-mask.pdf (86.3 KB)
- owl-mask.jpg (175.7 KB)
- Blow forest.jpg (1.73 MB)
- BINOCULARS.jpg (3.99 MB)
Identification spotter sheets
- Spring Blossom spotter 22.pdf (3.27 MB)
- Winter twigs ID 22.pdf (1.99 MB)
- Bee ID sheet.jpg (3.55 MB)
- Finch spotter sheet (142.28 KB)
- Ladybird ID guide (339.37 KB)
- Snail ID guide (320.7 KB)
- Shieldbug spotter guide (702.28 KB)
- Male and female birds (199.79 KB)
- Butterfly Detective (369.54 KB)
- Caterpillar Detective (314.21 KB)
- Moths spotter (974.24 KB)
- Dragons and damsels spotter (347.43 KB)
- Spider spotter (359.87 KB)
- Garden bird identification (2.17 MB)
- Ducks detective.jpg (7.29 MB)
Festive activities
- Make a glitter-free snow globe (2.28 MB)
- Make a Christmas wreath for birds (2.79 MB)
- Make a pinecone Christmas tree (2.21 MB)
