Who is singing?
All those birds you identified visiting your gardens, and neighbourhoods,.......do you know who's who???
Listen to the different birdsong and learn to identify birds without seeing them!
https://greennews.ie/know-your-birdsong-click-through-our-quick-guide-to-the-calls-of-common-irish-birds/
Listen to the different birdsong and learn to identify birds without seeing them!
https://greennews.ie/know-your-birdsong-click-through-our-quick-guide-to-the-calls-of-common-irish-birds/
Bug Hotel
How did you all get on with making bug traps? Did you manage to capture any creepy crawlies? If you didn't, what about trying to build a bug hotel? You can use all sorts of materials that would usually end up in the bin: plastic bottles, yoghurt pots,straws, tin cans, toilet roll inserts etc. Fill your containers with moss, leaves, sticks, bark, stones, pinecones, grass etc. Make it nice and cosy and before you know it, all sorts of little creatures will be 'checking in'.
Thank you Mother Nature
When you have found any of these natural treasures, give thanks to Mother Nature for all the joy she brings. Being off school is a very special time to connect with and enjoy our natural world. We can find joy in the most simple of things.
Play Soldiers
Now is the time of year that ribworth plantain is abundant. The Irish word for it is 'slán -lus' or healing plant because of its history in healing cuts, bruises and insect bites. You might know these stalks as 'soldiers'.
Try playing this game with a parent or sibling while on a walk.
One player holds out their stalk while the other player uses their soldier to knock off the flower head. The first to succeed wins.
Did you know that this game was mentioned in a Norman French poem written in England way back in 1219 where the boy played 'chevaliers' or 'soldiers' against King Stephen while the monarch waited to go into battle. I bet there was no nintendo switch back then!!