Nature/Science

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Our Insect Hotels are the perfect habitat to encourage wildlife to live and thrive in your garden/ educational setting.

Features include: a range of natural and made materials with hidy holes and nooks & crannies, arid plants, ivy and a turfed roof/chimney.

1.2 x 1.2m made with treated timbers to ensure longevity.

An insect hotel in your garden area will attract these beneficial insects, offering them a space where they can propagate and hunker down for the winter. Encouraging biodiversity in the garden area helps to increase ecosystem productivity.

Placing an insect hotel in the garden area increases the chances that beneficial insects will naturally visit your garden.

These Bug Globes look fabulous raised off the ground at various heights, easily movable and mimic the natural nesting habitats of solitary bees, lady birds, beetles, woodlice and more.

Beneficial insects support biodiversity, the foundation for the world’s ecological balance. An insect hotel in your outdoor space will attract these beneficial insects, offering them a space where they can propagate and hunker down for the winter. Encouraging biodiversity in the garden helps to increase ecosystem productivity.

Placing an insect hotel in the nature area increases the chances that beneficial insects will naturally visit. Also known as bug hotels, bug boxes, and bug houses, these human-made structures offer several benefits. In addition to their decorative qualities, they help supplement the increasing loss of natural habitats.

Octagonal bug hotel – perfect for inspecting little creatures!

Children are naturally curious about balancing and measuring, and this fantastic set of balance scales helps them to understand weights and measuring as key concepts before understanding them academically. Watch them put ‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’ into practice, as well as creating hours of imaginative play situations mimicking trips to the grocery or food shop, or measuring ingredients for baking cakes!

There is no better place to understand and fully experience weather with all the senses than the great outdoors, making our Weather Station the perfect addition to your natural playground! Preschool weather activities are important to propel early childhood learning, and this outdoor preschool playground equipment provides the perfect opportunity for exploration and discovery.

The Weather Station Learning Center includes the Weekly Weather Panel, Thermometer, Barometer, Weather Vane, and Rain Gauge.

The Weekly Weather Panel provides a documentation board for recording or drawing the daily weather. Since weather is never static, there are two slots for each day. The young scientists can use markers to document their findings. (Please note, use only markers that are designed to come off with water.)

Children will enjoy measuring the air temperature, whether they read the numbers or simply observe the change on the Thermometer gauge.

The Barometer predicts a change in weather by measuring variations in atmospheric pressure and the gauge indicates rain, change or fair. The Barometer normally indicates changes in weather 12 to 24 hours in advance. Young meteorologists will love predicting tomorrow’s forecast through these fun preschool weather activities.

The Weather Vane at the top of this outdoor weather station for preschoolers indicates wind direction and provides a basis for observing and discussing north, south, west, east, sunrise, sunset, etc.

The Rain Gauge collects and measures the amount of rain fall. Children who can’t read numbers can still understand the measurements of more and less.

An Optional Floor Add-On is available, it provides a play and work surface for examining tiny creatures with a magnifying glass, charting weather data or performing the daily weather report.

Mini Beasts! Wormery   & Ant Farm 

Look inside the fascinating world of worms with this fun and informative wormery.

Add coloured sand to watch your worms mix up the different coloured layers in their chamber, and feed them leaves.

This product provides a great opportunity for children to learn more about worms’ importance in our ecosystem.

Please note: Worms are not included in the kit. Instructions are given on how to find them in the wild; alternatively order worms online.

Children are encouraged to collect their own worms. 

Education: Experiments support National Curriculum Science KS1 and KS2.

https://www.interplayuk.com/files/worm_world-0.pdf