{"id":5617,"date":"2012-07-04T12:42:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinkoddy.wordpress.com\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2013-03-03T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T09:18:58","slug":"love-l-lice-lego-and-ladybirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/love-l-lice-lego-and-ladybirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Love L – lice, lego and ladybirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after seeing Choice chambers<\/strong> on Science Sparks (here<\/a>) I was really keen to do them with my son – so decided that L could be for Lice. It actually turns out that if you Google lice (as I did to be sure of how many legs to give them) that it turns out lice as in headlice and that they are insects – where as Woodlice<\/strong> are crustaceans . It did lead to an interesting conversation which lead me to discover that my preschool 4 year old knows that spiders have 8 legs, and are not insects who have 6 legs! (I was suitably impressed).<\/p>\n

\"dark\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We didn’t have the right materials at all but I thought it was still worth a try.<\/p>\n

First we coloured in some card black.<\/p>\n

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We used an old scone tray and split it into 4 – 2 dark and 2 light, then we put in a bit of tissue paper and added a drop of water (using a milk bottle lid) – one in white and one in black. Meaning that the choices were dark and wet, dark and dry, light and wet, and light and dry.<\/p>\n

We then discussed where we thought the woodlice would be most likely to go<\/p>\n

– He said the dry and light section<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"woodlice\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We went out into the garden and talked about where we might find the woodlice.<\/p>\n

I showed him the dark damp parts of the garden and we collected some out of our compost bin.<\/p>\n

\"tub\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We collected them in a dark, wet container.<\/p>\n

Note he still thought that they’d prefer the light and dry section.<\/p>\n

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I noticed a flaw in my plan that they couldn’t climb over the ledge (or not likely to) but there was dark and dry Vs light and wet; then dark and wet Vs dry and light. Very discouragingly the first place they went was indeed the dry and light – eek!!<\/p>\n

But they soon got moving and both sides preferred the dark sides.<\/p>\n

\"darkandwet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After moving all the woodlice across we made the dark side darker, and did light and dry Vs dark and wet – and indeed they all went to the dark and wet. So now my son will tell you that woodlice prefer the shade and the rain :O)<\/p>\n

\"returning\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We made sure the woodlice weren’t away from their habitat for too long and returned them where we found them.<\/p>\n

\"mixingbrown\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We had great fun mixing together different colour paint in order to get brown to make our woodlice.<\/p>\n

\"paintinglice\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My 8 year old has been trying to teach his younger brother that his left hand is the one you can make an L shape with. Unfortunately he was unable to paint this with his broken arm so here you can see my hand. We then glued on antennae, legs and eyes to make a woodlouse.<\/p>\n

\"lforlice\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now my son thought that LOVE<\/strong> was a much nicer L word<\/p>\n

\"love\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course we talk about L things whilst we are out and about<\/p>\n

\"loaves\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Loaves<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"lolly\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lolly<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"lego\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Not forgetting LEGO<\/strong><\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Ladybirds<\/strong><\/p>\n

We started simply by drawing black on red paper.<\/p>\n

\"drawingladybirds\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There are many ladybird ideas I want to try and adapt but\u00a0this<\/a>\u00a0is the main one that inspired me.<\/p>\n

We painted the black paper (as before) and drew around different sized coins for circles and cut them out.<\/p>\n

\"makingcircles\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"blackcircles\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then out of red paper we cut out a body and some wings (I later realised that actually the body would have been better off black or even white).<\/p>\n

\"addingladybirddots\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We glued the black spots onto the wings.<\/p>\n

\"ladybirdwings\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And then stuck the wings to the body.<\/p>\n

\"ladybirds\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We also did the ladybirds using plates. We cut a plate in half and used that as a template to draw around for the wings.<\/p>\n

\"cuttingplates\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"paperplateladybird\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This time we added some googly eyes.<\/p>\n

\"ladybirdplatewitheyes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s so much more to do. Like painting ladybirds on toilet rolls, and bee plates. Another idea I like is using hand and foot prints as the main body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So after seeing Choice chambers on Science Sparks (here) I was really keen to do them with my son – so decided that L could be for Lice. It actually turns out that if you Google lice (as I did to be sure of how many legs to give them) that it turns out lice … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895,6,7],"tags":[109,198,365,939,2153,962,974,975,988,1021,1091,1325,1474,1839,1869],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/lforlice.jpg?fit=264%2C337","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/lforlice.jpg?fit=264%2C337",264,337,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/lforlice.jpg?resize=150%2C150",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/lforlice.jpg?fit=235%2C300",235,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/lforlice.jpg?fit=264%2C337",264,337,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/lforlice.jpg?fit=264%2C337",264,337,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/lforlice.jpg?fit=264%2C337",264,337,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/lforlice.jpg?fit=264%2C337",264,337,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pinkoddy","author_link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/author\/pinkoddy\/"},"uagb_comment_info":15,"uagb_excerpt":"So after seeing Choice chambers on Science Sparks (here) I was really keen to do them with my son – so decided that L could be for Lice. It actually turns out that if you Google lice (as I did to be sure of how many legs to give them) that it turns out lice…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pepM9j-1sB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}