Minibeasts 🐞

Use to tools 'Paint, Animate and Mix' found in JIT Infant Toolkit' to create a simple fact book about minibeasts by creating a series of digital drawings or even animations.

Within your school environment or within a local green space, ask your students to go on a minibeasts hunt. Ask your students to collect the data by using a simple tally sheet. Once the students are back in class ask your students to curate the data into JIT Infant Toolkit “Pictogram”. Students could use the clip art provided or even draw their own bugs.

Explore coding with this simple tool called 'Turtle' found within the  JIT Infant Toolkit , select the butterfly/flowers template; ask your students to give the least amount of instructions/directions to get the butterfly to each flower.

Explore the properties of minibeasts with this digital activity within 'Busy Things'. Draw a picture of a minibeast. Experiment with different colours and textures and add wings, legs, antennae and eyes! 

Questions you can ask: What does your minibeast like to eat? Where does it live? Does it have any special features? Can it fly?

Explore the properties of minibeasts with this digital activity within 'Busy Things'. Demonstrate knowledge of minibeasts with this labelling activity. 

You can also save this activity as a PDF and use it as a table top activity.

Explore the life cycle of a butterfly with this interactive digital life cycle tool within ‘Busy Things’. Simply choose a template and draw in or add photos of the the stages of a butterfly’s life cycle. 

Questions you could ask - Have you seen a butterfly? What colour was it? Have you ever seen a caterpillar?

Explore symmetry and pattern with this butterfly within ‘Busy Things’. Try out all the different colours, textures and stamps. Notice how all your marks are symmetrical!