Report on Louth Watch Meeting at Westgate Fields
Sunday 19th May 2019
Over a dozen
children attended this month’s session on ‘30 Days Wild’. We were fortunate to
have fine weather which meant that all the planned activities were available.
The children were
introduced to the concept of ‘30 Days Wild’ and were provided with a blank
calendar page to fill in with ideas that they may like to try during June.
They were then
given a large selection of activities from which to choose and were encouraged
to try several during the afternoon. There was also a bank of further ideas
from which they could extract those which may be of interest them. We also
hoped that this would spark their own imagination and they would think of more
activities which they could then share amongst the group.
The children were
able to select from the following activities in any order and could complete as
many or as few as they liked:
1)
I-spy in Westgate Fields sheet
2)
Litter pick (with equipment kindly
lent by the Co-op)
3)
Mini treasure hunt – find tiny items
to fill a pot
4)
Craft Butterflies
5)
Nature pictures using natural
resources
6)
Colour wheel – locating natural
objects for as many colours on the wheel
as possible
7)
Mask making – Owl, Fox or Mouse
8)
Leaf/Tree/Plant ID
9)
Measuring tree girth
10)
Flower
sketching and symmetry
11)
Use of
pooters/hand lenses for minibeast ID
The children (and
their parents) were very enthusiastic and were all given the chance to feedback
to the group as a whole. Hopefully many of them will sign up for ‘30 Days Wild’
and will attend at least one Watch activity during June.
