Craigmillar library held a wonderful eco-fair on Earth Day and invited local families to come along and learn about nature and celebrate it through craft and stories. The children enjoyed decorating oysters shells, collected from Cramond beach, as they learned about this amazing species. Daphne was especially keen to colour pictures as she learned. Her […]
Craigmillar library held a wonderful eco-fair on Earth Day and invited local families to come along and learn about nature and celebrate it through craft and stories. The children enjoyed decorating oysters shells, collected from Cramond beach, as they learned about this amazing species.
I often see oyster shells on Edinburgh beaches & know they used to be often eaten around the Forth, but now they’re rare here because of what humans have done. I wanted to explore their beauty & how we share some of our history with the common oyster. I learned so much that was interesting […]
I coloured this at Craigmillar Library Earth Day event. Craigmillar library held a wonderful eco-fair on Earth Day and invited local families to come along and learn about nature and celebrate it through craft and stories. The children enjoyed decorating oysters shells, collected from Cramond beach, as they learned about this amazing species.
I have seen this marine foam spread out along the beaches in East Neuk, and wanted to know what it was. I learned that sea foam is a type of microscopic marine algae, that can live as individual cells, or they can form large colonies consisting of many individuals. I have used an A4 sheet […]
Please meet ‘Gary’ the Short-spined scorpion fish! We were asked to take part in a project with Restoration Forth to create a portable sculpture based on a fish that lives nearby us here in Limekilns. The fish we were allocated was the short-spined scorpion fish which has amazing eyes and patterns. It gains the nickname […]
