Pollinators

Today I participated in the Accessibility Fest in downtown SA, where we brought pollinator activities to share with the people downtown. The theme of our events is pollinators, so I created a game for the event.

For the game I purchased 4 serving platters shaped like flowers, 2 ladles that I added construction paper butterflies to, 2 large plastic serving spoons that I added construction paper bumblebees to, and a large bag of cotton balls.

There are 2 ways to play the game.:

1) A single child can play and race the clock. They get 30 seconds to try to get as much pollen as possible from one flower to the other in order to create new flowers.

2) two or more children can race against one another. Again they get only 30 seconds to try to move as much pollen as possible from one flower to the next flower. This can be played with 2-4 children.

This game is a good station to use with elementary students when teaching butterfly life cycles. Students could rotate and make the pasta life cycles,  color a life cycle, play this game, and do some reading and worsheets.