Are you ready for some colouring fun? Can you draw some dinner for a venus fly trap, give a little cactus some prickles and make the Botanic Garden fountains go whoosh like never before? Remember, we’d love to see what you create, please tag us on Twitter with photos of your work @CUBGLearning #CUBGFamily.
To help conserve plants it’s important we learn about them – especially those that grow in our gardens and near to where we live. In this activity you can make a mini flower press which you can use to start your own pressed plant collection.
Making your own pots and watching seeds germinate is great fun. Download this activity for ideas about what you can grow and how you can make your pots extra fancy.
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Flowers are nature’s artists. Blues, purples, yellows and reds - they come in an amazing rainbow of colours and shades. Download this activity to find out the science behind petal colour, make your own petal paint and create a beautiful bouquet of paper flowers.
Leaves do a very important job for plants - they capture energy from the sun and use it to make food. They're also very beautiful and come in all sorts of wonderful shapes and sizes. In this activity find out how to create a shimmering leaf artwork.
Remember we’d love to see your creations and you can share them with us on Facebook and Twitter @CUBGlearning #CUBGfamily
The narwhal is a relative of the beluga whale. Both types of whale are medium sized and live in Arctic waters all year round. They are sometimes called unicorns of the sea because of their long spiralled tusk.
This pack includes a pattern to download and step by step instructions for making your own narwhal.
In this activity we’re making giant flowers complete with all the special parts they use to make seeds. Download the document to find out more about how flowers work and to make your own fantastic flower.
Remember we’d love to see your creations and you can share them with us on Facebook and Twitter @CUBGlearning #CUBGfamily
Nobody knows exactly what the world looks like to a bee but one thing’s for sure, everything looks very different to how we see them.
Download this activity to find out about bee vision and make a special rainbow using only the colours bees can see. Display in your window to spread a bit of joy and say thank you to all the wonderful NHS staff and key workers.
A series of activities inspired by some of the diaries in our collection at the Scott Polar Research Institute. Enjoy recording your observations during your own expeditions.
This is a nature walk with a difference – spot the amazing flowers that normally go unnoticed and then put tiny signs next to them so that other people might enjoy them too.
What will you find? It could be an an enormous dandelion sprouting out of somebody’s guttering or a tiny wildflower growing in a crack in the paving.
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