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Meet Windmill’s Wild Residents with Steph

Join us over 4 Wednesdays in November for an Introduction to Windmills most exciting residents! Insects 101!

These sessions are aimed at all ages: children and their grown ups - everyone will learn something!

Loads of fun facts, exploring, identifying, and related crafts and games to consolidate your new found knowledge! Bring your enthusiasm, a grown up and appropriate clothes come rain or shine!

We will focus on a insect family at a time going in depth to discover more about creepers and crawlers, ticklers and sticklers and slimers and fliers! Topics will include; body parts, habitats, predation, prey and the food chain, how they help us, making babies, where to spot them and how to help them. Go home with your brains busy about beasts and bugs and a creation you've crafted.

Sessions will run all month, they will interconnect and can be used to enhance one another and build learning.

Heres what to expect (each session is sold seperately):

Wednesday 6th November 1 - 3pm: Creepers – beetles
What makes it a beetle not a true bug. Body segments. Life cycle. Including cockchafer and stag. How do they help us. Eg: Ladybirds Aphids!! Create a ladybird pine cone and wood structure to take home. Biggest vs smallest. How many in the world

Wednesday 13th Nov 1 - 3pm: Crawlers – ant families
See inside an ant house....hopefully! Leaf cutters/fire ants. Acids....bluebells....experiment with acids and alkalines. Jobs for each ant...split the children into groups and each do their jobs for the colony.

Wednesday 20th Nov 1 - 3pm: Fliers – pollinators
How do they help us. Life cycles. What they eat. Create a beautiful willow and tissue paper dragonfly to take home. Some lay in ponds. How to help a found bee. Stings and acids and alkaline.

Wednesday 27th Nov 1 - 3pm: SLIMERS - worms, slugs and snails
Why we like them in the garden. Where to put them, how to handle. Who eats them and what they do. Muscle foot. Look in the compost and wormery. Create a wormery in a bottle to take home?

Recommended Age

These workshops are aimed at all ages, Children must be accompanied by an adult.

How much does this workshop cost?

We have 3 ticket price options:
(each workshop sold seperately, price per family)

Supported ticket for £0 (for people on low income, in or out of work)

Standard ticket for £5 (for people in employment or with a steady income)

Supporter ticket for £10 (for middle to high earners with disposable income beyond cost of living)