SAW - an activity idea!

[Edward Mayer]

Hello Nick, I have dreamt up a game and activities for children and
their teachers / minders to do for SAW; here they are:

Dress up as a Swift and enact migration down Europe and through Africa
out on the playground "flying" over country after country and ending up
over the Congo and then coming back again. Looking at all the countries
they fly over and finding out about them, their peoples, cultures and
their wildlife (briefly!)

Watching tiny flying insects with magnifying glasses and realising
that's what Swifts eat and ID'ing them.

Looking for Swifts over the school yard. Going to a nearby reservoir or
gravel pit or a big flat bit of the Thames and watching Swifts feed and
drink at teatime.

Drawing Swifts, Matins & Swallows, making Swift models from wool and
toilet roll middles and string and glue and paint  and papier mache!
Wonderfully messy!

What do you think?

All the best, Edward

[Nick Brown]

Great ideas Edward  thanks.

We certainly need to engage children as much as possible so more SAW events like Amandas aimed at kids would be great!

Nick

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