Ellie Howell, Cley Marketing Intern
On Monday 1st August Community
Education Officer Rachael and I went to Wells Carnival for an afternoon of
marine inspired creativity and learning.
While the stalls were not due to open when
we finished setting up, there were lots of children eager to explore and to
create.
With ties to the Wildlife Trusts’ Living
Seas vision, we wanted to discover what in particular makes the seas valuable
to the families that came along. We also wanted to get them thinking about what
helps and what harms our marine environment.
We spent the afternoon creating wildlife
pictures with natural materials found on the beach. We decorated crabs, fish
and starfish with sea lettuce, crab claws, horn-wrack and other things that
wash up on the shore. The children also enjoyed making jellyfish from the plastic
materials we’d scavenged on the beach.
Grandmother Angie Richards who travelled
from Romford to spend time with her grandchildren said the activities were ‘fab
for teaching and educating children on sea life and the environment.’ Her
grandchild Ruby said she’d like to make fifty more for her bedroom!
There was also a display of marine objects
for inquisitive minds to discover with items such as belemnites over 900
million years old. It was also a chance for the families reacquaint themselves
with objects of childhood memory – mermaid’s purses (or egg cases as they are
more scientifically known), razor shells, whelk eggs, cuttlebones and horse
mussels.
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