Activity

Watching Wildlife

What You'll Need

  • Sugar
  • Water
  • Small pieces of a sponge
  • 60 mins
  • Ages 2 - 8
  • Outside
  • Not a Speck
Activity
Who lives under the hedgerow?
What will you find in the park?
There are birds and beasts and beetles
In the daylight and the dark!

Getting Started:

  • First make your butterfly food. Mix a cup of sugar with four cups of water and stir it until it’s dissolved.
  • Soak some of your pieces of sponge in the mixture so they’re filled up with sugar-water.
  • Now place the pieces of sponge around the place: on tree branches, on windowsills, on walls.
  • You can even tie a piece of string around a bit of sponge and hang it outside your window so that you can watch the butterflies from inside. That way you’ll get really close to them!

Tips!

A scientist who studies animals is called a ‘Zoologist’.

 

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