Home Learning Activity: Make a bird feeder
Find out how to make a bird feeder using an old plastic bottle and a skewer.
YPTE’s Home Learning Packs were originally created to support parents and carers while their children are learning from home during the Covid-19 lockdowns. They contain suggestions for activities that parents can do alongside their children, as well as activities that they can do independently, whilst you are working from home.
We tried to suggest activities that require no special materials other than those you may find around the house. We also attempted to minimise the need to print out any materials.
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In each pack there are:
- Open ended project ideas and research topics
- Activities to explore independently or together
- Games to play
- Ideas for science experiments
- Art and craft ideas
- Links to other learning resources
- A use each week for toilet roll tubes…
Home Learning Activity: Make a bug hotel
Some instructions for making your very own bug hotel!
Home Learning Activity: Make your own bioplastic
Here's a quick and easy recipe for making your own biodegradable plastic from natural materials (bioplastic). Adult required to help!
Home Learning Activity: Making a vertical garden
A great way of maximising limited garden space or creating a garden using a blank patch of outdoor wall is to use recycled plastic bottles to creat...
Home Learning Activity: Making a wildflower meadow
Find out about how to create your own wildflower meadow, which will in time become a haven for all kinds of insects and other wildlife and loom bea...
Home Learning Activity: Milk bottle elephants
Instructions for making beautiful elephants from plastic milk bottles.
Home Learning Pack: Energy and Power
Here are some amazing ideas for learning and activities focused on how we can make and use energy. Try making your own circuit using a pencil and ...
Home Learning Pack: Food chains and food miles
This bumper Home Learning Pack is packed with ideas for fun learning about food! Find out about food chains, healthy eating, food miles and growin...
Home Learning Pack: All about weather
Find out about the weather with this Home Learning Pack! It is full of great activities to help you learn and there are instructions for making lo...
Home Learning Pack: Animals and Habitats
Here's the second of our Home Learning Packs, which this time has some fantastic learning activities about animals and their habitats.
Home Learning Pack: Dinosaurs
Loads of fantastic ideas for learning and investigation, activities, games, arts and crafts for learning about dinosaurs. All that and some Maths ...
Home Learning Pack: Dramatic Earth
With volcanoes and earthquakes, planet Earth gets up to some pretty dramatic stuff every year! This new Home Learning Pack gives you some fantasti...
Home Learning Pack: Garden Birds
Learn about the birds in your garden with this great home learning pack. Includes designs for making bird feeders from recycled materials, researc...
Home Learning Pack: Gardening for Nature
Find out about how you can make your garden a friendlier place for wildlife with this fantastic Home Learning Pack. As ever, it's full of great id...
Home Learning Pack: Maps and Directions
Even though we are all staying very close to home at the moment, map making can be a great way to think about your environment in a different way. ...
Home Learning Pack: Plants
Supporting parents and carers during the Covid-19 lockdown Our home learning packs have been compiled by the Young People’s Trust for the Enviro...
Home Learning Pack: Rainforests
Some fantastic ideas for games, arts and crafts, learning activities and lots more to help you and your children learn about our amazing rainforest...
Home Learning Pack: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
Packed with great ideas for reducing your impacts and activities to help you recycle and re-use things, including making recycled paper, a recycled...
Home Learning Pack: Rocks and Minerals
Find out more about rocks and minerals with this exciting Home Learning Pack. Learn about the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorp...
Home Learning Pack: Super Soil
More fantastic ideas for learning about soil - something that is vital for us all, but is often overlooked! Find out about different types of soil...
How to make bioplastic
Alaska (age 12) shows you how to make bioplastic in this video she made herself. Created in collaboration with Explorium, Lights On® Jam.
Humans and Nature
In his video, Essie explains how human actions can affect wildlife. Created in collaboration with Explorium, Lights On® Jam.
Making a hanging bottle garden
In this great 'How-To' guide, Georgina shows how to make a hanging garden using plastic bottles. Created in collaboration with Explorium, Lights O...
Making a milk bottle elephant
Join George as he shows you how to make a milk bottle elephant. Created in collaboration with Explorium, Lights On® Jam.
Making bioplastic with Noah
Noah had a go at making some bioplastic. Find out how he got on in this video that he produced for YPTE, created in collaboration with Explorium, L...
Mints and cola experiment video
Emily and Allison from 'Pig Productions' did the cola and mint eruption experiment for us. Look at what happened! Created in collaboration with ...
Rainforests by Theo and Grace
Theo (age seven and three quarters) and Grace (age five and three quarters) made this fantastic animation inspired by our Home Learning Pack on Rai...
Rory and Mack's edible rocks experiment
Rory and Mack show us how to make edible rocks in this great video, based on our Home Learning Pack on Rocks and Minerals. Created in collaboratio...
Roxy the dog's habitat
Caitlin tells us all about Roxy the dog's habitats in this great video, inspired by YPTE's Home Learning Pack on Animals and Habitats. Created in ...
Video on food chains
Arthur explains food chains and why removing keystone species like turtles can make a big difference to a marine ecosystem. Created in collaborati...
YPTE Green News Issue 2
Enjoy the Summer Term edition of YPTE's newsletter for schools.
Your Home Learning Creations
Here are some of the fantastic models and artwork done by young people and inspired by YPTE's Home Learning Packs and Home Learning Activities duri...
Zephan's Nature Garden
Zephan has been making his garden more nature-friendly. Find out how in his fantastic video that he produced for YPTE, created in collaboration wi...