Nursery set off for the woods together on a beautiful bright morning. On the way the children looked out for stinging nettles and sticky weed. The children had a go at developing fine and large motor skills by drawing the zig zag edge of the stinging nettles with our fingers and arms. On the walk we found a beautiful cherry blossom tree and investigated and collected some of the fallen petals.
We talked about the bluebells and enjoyed the amazing colour they create on the woodland floor. The children were brilliant at sticking to the paths in the woods. The children talked about why it was important to preserve these beautiful plants on the
woodland floor and thought about how many flowers they think they saw.
“The bees like flowers….I have bees in my garden”
“Butterflies love the flowers, they eat them”
“I think there is 15 bluebells”
“I think I see 41 bluebells!”
The children then walked through the grassy meadow on the way back to nursery and spotted lots of insects, such as woodlice, spiders and ladybirds on the stinging nettles.
We collected lots of sticky weed and made some crowns and nests when we got back to the nursery, then added some dandelion flowers to them to decorate. Some of the children spent a long time carefully decorating their crowns and nests with dandelions, daisies and tree blossom.
Some children wore their crowns and others used them as birds’ nests. They counted the birds and had a go at identifying them by their calls and colours of feathers.