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Discover a world of variety in the world around you. Create smelly cocktails with natural objects. Will season and location affect the natural objects you discover and the scents you create?

Explore a variety of media and materials that allow you to create leaf rubbings. Provide tools for children to demonstrate the variety in shape, size and texture of natural items such as leaves.

Let’s Talk Nature. A Welsh bilingual series of three A4 activity sheets each showing different scenes that provoke thought for conversation, language and vocabulary development. Use these to develop early language and confidence as well as observation skills. Perfect for Early Years and KS1. Use wonderful words to describe what you see in a woodland scene. Use positional language to say where the wildlife you can see is in a garden scene. Use super sentences to talk about the wildlife in the urban school scene. Are any of the animals the same or different to the wildlife found where you live?

How many homes for nature has your school got? Could you do better? Use our scorecard to give your grounds 'score' then see what you can do to improve it

A top trumps style game but with common birds that you are likely to see in your school grounds. Compare wingspan, weight, number of eggs laid and where the bird featured in Big Garden Birdwatch! Loads of fun and perfect if you're taking part in Big Schools' Birdwatch

Meet Bouncy Blackbird as he flies around his garden and discovers the different types of food his bird friends like. Great for introducing similarities and differences and birds to young children. Perfect if you're doing Big Schools' Birdwatch

A lovely story about Cheeky Sparrow who flies round his garden meeting bird friends who look and sound differently to him. A great way to introduce young children to the similarities and differences in common birds and those that you are likely to see in school grounds. Perfect for bird spotting or if you're taking part in Big Schools' Birdwatch. Presented as a power point for whole class teaching but can also be printed.

Just like us, birds need a drink. Here’s a clever way to give birds water – and your tray will keep topping itself up! Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make food to attract wildlife to your garden or grounds, including; an apple bird feeder, salad garden and a self filling water tray. Look on our web-site

Do you mind sharing your food? Grow salad plants that you can eat, then when you’ve had your fill, let butterfly caterpillars have the rest. Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make food to attract wildlife to your garden or grounds, including; an apple bird feeder, salad garden and a self filling water tray. Look on our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

Sticky fun for you and a real treat in winter for the birds. Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make food to attract wildlife to your garden or grounds, including; an apple bird feeder, salad garden and a self filling water tray. Look on our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

How can you charm a butterfly? Butterflies suck up sweet nectar from flowers or ripe fruit. Here’s a drink that might tempt them down for you to see. Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make food to attract wildlife to your garden or grounds, including; an apple bird feeder, salad garden and a self filling water tray. Look on our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

Here’s a neat thing for you to make…and the birds will like it too. Provide pencil perches for the perfect hanging feeder. Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make food to attract wildlife to your garden or grounds, including; an apple bird feeder, butterfly bar and a self filling water tray. Look on our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

Create one of these and the birds will feed very “h-apple-y”. Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make food to attract wildlife to your garden or grounds, including; a bird kebab, butterfly bar and a self filling water tray. Look on our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

Find out what has been out at night while you’ve been fast asleep! Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make things for investigating nature; including pond dipping nets, a pooter and a sweep net look at our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

It’s the perfect bug-catcher in long grass. What will you catch today? Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make things for investigating nature; including pond dipping nets, an animal trap and a sweep net look at our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

Who’s been eating my spud? Put out baked potatoes and then find out what’s been eating into them. Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make things for investigating nature; including pond dipping nets, an animal trap and a sweep net look at our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

Are there monsters in the pond? Find out by making your own net to catch them. Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make things for investigating nature; including pooters, an animal trap and a sweep net look at our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

Do you know what’s running around here at night? This is how you can find out. It could be your catch of the day! Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make things for investigating nature; including pond dipping nets, a pooter and a sweep net look at our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

How do you get a bug’s-eye view without them running away? An old drinks bottle makes a brilliant two-in-one bug catcher. Simple, fun and easy to follow instructions. For more instructions on how to make things for investigating nature; including pond dipping nets, a pooter and a sweep net look at our web-site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx

Fancy living somewhere that’s dark, damp and cool? Maybe you don’t , but it’s just what a sleepy toad wants. Make your very own toad abode. For more instructions on how to build homes for nature; including bat boxes, hog house and bee house look at our web site https://www.rspb.org.uk/forprofessionals/teachers/resources/school-grounds/index.aspx