This morning we received a voice note from the forest fairies telling us that the woodland minibeasts were waking up. They want to help keep them safe and so explained to us that they needed to know where they could be found in the woodland.

To get us thinking about where minibeast habitats might be, we started with a game of hungry birds and woolly worms. We each had two woolly worms- one brightly coloured and one darker. We chose a place in the woodland area that would make our ‘worm’ camouflaged. We then swapped areas with the other team and hunted for their woolly worms. Which do you think we found first? Yes, the brightly coloured ones!

We then talked about why some minibeasts are camouflaged within their habitat and why others are not and are more brightly coloured. We talked about safe and kind minibeast hunting and then off we set! Look at what we discovered. We made sure that we returned our minibeasts to where we found them.

Mrs Johnson was feeling sad because she didn’t get to come to the museum with us. She told us that she had tried to create a tree museum in our woodland but she just did not know enough about the trees to do this and the fairies hadn’t even brought her anything to help (or so we thought!) So…today we helped her! We looked closely at a collection of leaves and tried to locate the tree that each leaf belonged to. We used the leaf identification sheet, left by the fairies, to find out the names of the trees and then we created our own individual museums in a bag. We each made our own leaf rubbing on our bag and wrote the name of the tree. We managed to make Mrs Johnson smile again!