This pack is bursting full with activities to keep children busy, get them outdoors, and learn all about minibeasts, lifecycles, habitats, nature and the environment!

With ideas to cover all of the development areas, you will never be short of things to do to support learning and encourage next steps!

This pack includes all of the following:

Minibeasts Activity Ideas Sheet

Links activity ideas to each of the development areas. Gather loads of inspiration for your Minibeasts theme!

Activity Plans & Evaluation Sheets

Great for showing inspectors how you plan activities, observe children and plan next steps to support learning!

3 completed activity plans with example evaluations are included in this pack:

• Grow A Butterfly
• Minibeast Hotel
• Minibeast Hunt

Completed plans cover resources required, activity description, appropriate ages for activity, useful links, areas of learning covered and learning and development focus ideas.

Evaluation sheets include name and date of activity, children taking part, evaluation description, best bits and worst bits about the activity and further / future ideas.

Blank activity plan and evaluations sheets also included to create and evaluate your own activity plans.

Minibeast Fact Sheets

Learn all about the amazing creatures that we can find in our gardens!

Reports & Checklist Sheets

Children can pretend to be a Bug Detective or use the Minibeast Hunt sheet to note down what they find. An excellent resource to encourage children to look closely at nature and the environment, and describe what they can see. Children will learn how they can record and share information.

Minibeast Worksheets

Use these fun worksheets to help children practice their counting, reading, writing, pencil control skills and to learn more about minibeasts!

Picture Cards

Picture cards can be used in a variety of ways:

• To help children learn about and identify minibeasts.
• For word recognition and literacy skills
• Use two sets of cards to play snap or memory games (turning over one card at a time and remembering where it is in order to match it with it’s pair).
• To learn about colours and patterns (Find me a stripy minibeast, a spotty minibeast, etc.)
• To test children’s knowledge (Show me a minibeast that makes honey, etc.)

Ladybird Dominoes

Laminate and cut out these ladybird dominoes to have a fun minibeast game. Dominoes are great to help with counting and pairing skills. You could also have the children colour the dominoes and use them for a colour matching game.

Busy Bugs Board Game

This fun game will encourage children to learn about and communicate their knowledge of minibeasts and nature, use their counting and number skills to move around the board, recognise colours, learn about letters and their sounds and express themselves through movement and sound.

Game rules and cards also included! 

Bonkers About Bugs Certificate

After all of these exciting activities, the children will have had lots of fun and at the same time learned about minibeasts, lifecycles, habitats, nature and the environment. Reward them with a special certificate to take home!

Further Details 

The blank Activity Plan and Evaluation Sheets are provided as PDF Forms. Simply click in each area to add information or to tick the learning areas covered, or if you prefer, print out and complete by hand.

All other resources in this pack are provided as standard PDF files and are not editable.

For best results MindingKids recommends that you laminate the picture cards, fact sheets, dominoes and Busy Bugs Board Game and cards so as they can be used again and again. Laminating materials are not included.

The download version of this pack is supplied as a ZIP FILE. Please see the FAQ page for further information.  

This item has been carefully designed to assist childcarers in meeting both English Ofsted and Scottish Care Inspectorate requirements!

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