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Celebrate St Patrick’s day this year by going on a clover hunt! Your class will love folding and assembling this teeny-tiny-one-cut booklet that’s filled with facts about shamrocks and clover…. (e.g. you probably know that 4 leaf clovers are quite rare, but did you know that the world record for the most leaflets on a clover is 56?!!) After assembling and illustrating your pages, head outside to find a clover
There’s nothing more summery than the deafening chorus of cicadas…. and this has inspired me to whip up another ‘top 5’ printable! You can download your free printable (in both colour and black and white here) Many of the tree trunks near our house are covered in crunchy ‘cicada shirts’ (this was my 2 years olds description of what an empty cicada shell was after I attempted to explain!) They
My brother tells a really good story about hearing a repeated tapping/banging on the door late one night. He opened the door, only to be unexpectedly smacked in the face! After flailing about trying to work out what was going on he realised he’d encountered a giant flying Puriri Moth… These beautiful large green native moths have a fascinating life cycle. They spend 7 years as a caterpillar (mokoroa) living
I’m not sure if it’s just my family that does the whole ‘tree-planting-on-special-occasions-thing” or not, but either way I thought I’d share some good tips for the hows and whys of planting memory trees. Our family plants trees for births, deaths and marriages…. there’s nothing like watching a tree through the seasons to be reminded of the fact that life is an ever changing and beautiful thing! Some of my
This week in nature……… STOP-Hammer time! (I don’t think I’ve ever had such a valid reason to quote MC Hammer ha ha) My wee toddler and I made a fascinating discovery on our local beach a few weeks back—a dead baby hammerhead shark! It had washed in on the incoming tide and was already being eyed up by hungry seagulls. I don’t know much about sharks, so this obviously required
