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Quest 4: Rainforest Insect Mobiles
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Rainforest Insect Mobiles |
| Task: |
To produce a mobile featuring insects found in the rainforest to decorate the Rainforest Role Play area |
| Time: |
40 minutes |
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Materials:
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All the resources below should be displayed in such a way as to encourage free and independent selection by the children:
- Scissors, glue, felt-tips, sticky tape, thread
- Card and paper of various types
- Decorative materials (recycled if possible) such as sequins, buttons, sweet wrappers, corks, bottle tops etc
- A selection of materials to make legs and feelers, such as pipe cleaners, matchsticks and lolly sticks
- Coat hangers or hoops for hanging the mobiles
- Templates of the insects (see below) but encourage independent work where at all possible
- Soft toys, models or coloured pictures of a variety of insects found in the rainforest
- Postman Butterfly - b & w
Postman Butterfly - colour: Central and South America
- Blue Morpho Butterfly - b & w
Blue Morpho Butterfly - colour: Mexico and Central & South
America
- Zebra Butterfly - b & w
Zebra Butterfly - colour: Central & South America
- Owl Butterfly - b & w
Owl Butterfly - colour: Mexico and Central & South America
- Birdwing Butterfly - b & w
Birdwing Butterfly - colour: New Guinea
- Tarantula Spider - b & w
Tarantula Spider - colour: Africa and South America
- Brazilian Huntsman Spider - b & w
Brazilian Huntsman Spider - colour: South America
- Goliath Beetle - b & w
Goliath Beetle - colour: Africa
- Blue Orchid Bee - b & w
Blue Orchid Bee - colour: Mexico and South America
- Tiger Centipede - b & w
Tiger Centipede - colour: Mexico
- Hercules Beetle - b & w
Hercules Beetle - colour: Central & South America |
Group Size: 4
Process:
The teacher shows the children models or pictures of some of the insects found in the rainforest and talks about their individual characteristics. The teacher encourages the children to look carefully at colour and pattern. They are also shown a completed example of a mobile.
Children are working together in groups of four to produce a mobile. Each must contribute 1 or more insects for the mobile and these must be accurately coloured and patterned. The children should discuss together which insects they have chosen to make. They then select their own resources and where possible work independently to assemble their mobile.
Product:
The children will have worked as a group to produce an accurately coloured and patterned Rainforest Insect Mobile which can then be displayed in the Rainforest Role Play area.
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