Week #6: Amphibians & Insects

Games/Activities:

Ideas on how to incorporate the theme:

Your flock can choose to center your week around amphibians, insects or both! 

Animal forms
This is a great activity for Opening Circle. Role model moving your body like a certain animal and ask your campers to copy you. Invite campers to pick an animal and share its movement

• Use field guides and/or magnifying glasses 
• Creek play 
  • Have your campers make an aquarium and a terrarium and talk about why animals that live in different environments need different things 
• Keep track of all of the different animals you find using a phenology chart. Your flock can add to it every day. You could also come together with another flock and share what you all found 
• Make a bug hotel 
• Compete in the frog olympics! 
• Build houses for toads 
• Frog Game
  • Have your flock sit in a circle
  • The first person says “one frog.” The next person says “2 eyes,” the third person says “4 legs,” the fourth says “in the puddle,” and the fifth says “ker-plop.” 
  • The next person starts over with “2 frogs” and the game continues as follows: 4 eyes, 8 legs, in the puddle, in the puddle, ker-plop, ker-plop. See how many frogs you can get up to. This may be done to a beat of claps and snaps.
• Song suggestions: 
  • Frogs In Yonder Pond
  • The Critter Song (linked)
  • Create your own insect song!

Some questions you could ask: 

• • • How many insects do you think are in the world? More or less than humans?