The gardens, adventure playground and bird garden are an exciting environment for the early years.

Early Years Activities: Bird Garden and Grounds
Talks
Close Creatures: An opportunity to come face to face with some of the less cuddly members of the animal kingdom! A look but don’t touch session.
Allow 30 to 45 minutes

Focus on Birds: Enjoy an introduction to the amazing life of birds. Feathers and eggs are handled during this talk.
Allow 30 to 45 minutes

Pretending to be penguins: Learn all about penguins. Take a close look at their eggs and feathers, listening to a penguin story and then be amazed by the real thing. After watching them we can all pretend to be penguins. Allow 45 minutes

Craft Activities Allow 45 minutes

Focus on one of the following, and then enjoy making your own bird:
Practical Penguins
Painted Parrots
Fabulous Flamingo
Awesome Owls
Fantastic Pheasants

Follow up activities
Information and colouring sheets to supplement the above talks are available on request; to be used back in the nursery.

Numeracy Resources: House and Grounds

Numbers are beautiful! Maths is everywhere you look! From the symmetry of patterned ceilings, to clocks and weighing scales, and counting the birds in the Bird Garden as data; numbers can be found in allsorts of places.

We have recently developed cross-site Numeracy trails to support work from Reception class to Year 6. The trails give real life situations in which Maths can be used creatively to solve problems. Beginning on the State Floor looking at repeating patterns and shapes, continuing in the Below Stairs exhibition looking at Roman Numerals and weighing, and ending in the Bird Garden; the trails provide an interesting new way to look at Harewood.

The trails are teacher-led and come with comprehensive teaching notes.

The following trail is for Reception children: