Last week, we talked about different types of animals that hibernate; how they prepare for it and where they eventually go to do it. Bats in caves, tree hollows and old houses. Toads in damp places, under leaves and rotting wood. Wood mice in nests made from long grasses and moss, and queen bees buried ten centimetres underground, all sleeping until spring.
I thought, as part of our hibernation theme, it would be nice to paint hedgehogs in the woods. Unfortunately, I was really quite disorganised last week and kept ‘forgetting’ to take the paint and brushes up to the woods with me!
Luckily this didn’t stop the children from painting hedgehogs, resourceful as ever, they gathered things from the woodland floor and promptly made their own paintbrushes by tying these things to sticks. Dirt and water made mud, which they used as paint to decorate their hedgehog pictures.
It was quite windy in the afternoons, so we ran around trying to catch falling leaves and keep warm!
Mrs Wilson