As we all know childrens education is based on interactive play Drusillas offer activities…and we had fun finding out!
The Drusillas experience offer oodles of hands-on kids educational activities and interactive displays that aim to bring learning to life. At Drusillas, we learnt as having fun with our hands-on activities, which we followed around the Zoo Route we asked qusetions of HOW, WHY and WHAT as we were able to gain a sensory experience in close and personal contact with farm animals and saw recently hatched birds.
We travelled on Thomas the Tank Engine with Friends, Thomas, Annie and Clarabel provide a train service throughout the day, a fatastic attraction! We alighted the train at Tidmouth Halt. 'Thomas the Tank Engine' took us through the paddocks. seeing the Fat Controller at Dryaw Halt, James in the engine shed, we saw Diesel around the track, and spotted Cranky in the Sodor Dock yard. Alongside this we viewed the beautiful gardens in Alfriston.
A special event led to the introduction of Peppa Pig, George Pig and dino the dinosaur.
A song we like to sing is based on dinosaurs.
The song is ‘I’m a mean old Dinosaur’
I’m a mean old Dinosaur (make a mean face)
Big and tall (hand movements indicate size)
Here is my tail and here is my claw (hand behind their back and a claw shaped hand)
When i get hungry (rub your tummy)
I just growl
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!
Look out kids I’m on the prowl.
This song is sang to the tune of ‘I’m a little teapot ‘
We saw another interactive session hosted in Churchill Square The dinosaur exhibition. Huge animals, including the terrifying T-Rex, the ‘tyrant lizard’ and king of the dinosaurs!
Alongside the giant T-Rex is fellow Cretaceous-dweller and carnivore, the Baryonyx, a 28ft-long dinosaur with huge claws and finely serrated teeth!
Slightly more mild-mannered in comparison, what the Oviraptor lacked in ferocity it certainly made up for in speed! Just six foot long, the bird-like dinosaur from the Cretaceous period falls into the theropod category alongside the lithe-limbed Ornithomimus.
Dinosaur creative play is fun...planning sessions for the indoor and outdoor environments including scaly dinosaurs and finger painting.
Other creative sessions involving children in action movement and rhyme, this sesssion allows the children to show how to express mathematical skills through hand movement..
Dinosaurs lived when the earth began
Some were tall
Some were small
Some liked water
Some like land
Pteranadons had leathery wings
Brontosauras long necks
But the meanest of all was Tyrannosaurus Rex
Raahhh.....
