St Martin's Cubs Naturalist Badge Work - Put the Out in Scout

St.Martins cubs  recent visited Humber Bridge country park known as little Switzerland. The cubs learned about nature and their local environment. While exploring the Humber Bridge country park they same lots of different trees and habitats for wildlife to live in and around. While walking around the cubs also helped by preforming a litter pick, this helped by removing plastics and rubbish from the ground so that animals and birds don't ingest it.

How to earn your badge:

1.Learn how to identify six different living things from two of these categories:

• trees
• garden birds
• water birds
• minibeasts and insects
• wild flowers
• pond dwellers
• fungi
• butterflies and moths

That means you should have 12 examples in total.

2.Over three months, visit the same natural area at least four times.

Take a note of the changes in the plants and wildlife that you see. You might visit a garden, hedgerow, canal, river lake or park. Make sure that you have an adult’s permission for the visits.

3.Learn the countryside code and how to follow it.

4.Choose one of these activities to do:

• Create a piece of art using natural material. You could do a bark or leaf rubbing, dried flower picture or maybe a collage.
• Use a dye that uses natural ingredients to colour a piece of material.
• Make a feeding station for birds. Get permission to hang it in a good position.
• Make a hedgehog, ladybird or bee house.
• With an adult pick wild edible berries, leaves or fruit. Use them in a recipe.