Physical Development
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Personal, Social and Emotional
Explore how different minibeasts move
Hide plastic minibeasts in the garden and the
children will go on a minibeast hunt using
tweezers and tongs to collect them.
Make caterpillar bread. Each child to make a
green bread roll to make a giant ‘Hungry
Caterpillar’
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Real Pe
Literacy
Books to Read:
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• What the Lady Bird Heard
• The Very Busy Spider
• The Bad-Tempered Lady Bird
• Mad About Minibeasts
• Walter’s Wonderful Web
• Superworm
• Insect Non Fiction Books
Activities:
• Using book characters
(puppets) retell stories
• Label pictures and photos of
mini beasts
o Create our own nonfiction book about
minibeasts
• Minibeast observation form
Maths
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Share stories, knowledge and experiences that
we have with minibeasts
What is our favourite minibeasts and why?
Talk about how we handle the minibeasts and
that we must be gentle, and why.
Read ‘The Bad-Tempered Lady Bird’ and talk
about why he was feeling like that. What makes
us feel cross or mad and our friends and parents
Minibeasts
Counting using ladybird spots
Simple addition using lady bird
spots
Exploring symmetry using
butterflies
Abacus Maths
Communication and Language
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Clap out the syllables of minibeasts
Share stories, knowledge and experiences that
we have with minibeasts
What is our favourite minibeasts and why?
Group lots of minibeasts describing their
properties (legs, wings, long short, fast, slow)
Play the ‘What am I?’ minibeast description
game
New Language
• Insect
• Minibeast
• Symmetry
• Life cycle (and the different stages)
• The body parts of different minibeasts
Expressive
Art & Design
Make butterfly symmetry
paintings
Make a spiders web (golf ball and
paint)
Paint a large pebble to look like a
minibeast
Bug rhymes and songs
Make a bug hotel/ minibeast
garden in secret garden.
Make minibeasts using playdough
Understanding the World
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Discuss different minibeasts
(similarities and differences)
Grow a butterfly garden
Explore life cycles of different
minibeasts
Using magnifying glasses in garden
and secret garden look for
minibeasts
Using the non-fiction books
research and explore different
habitats and what different
minibeasts like to eat.