Wormery

We do a lot of gardening around here. We spend endless hours in the yard everyday. I try to teach the kids about all aspects of nature and I feel that one of the beat ways to do that is by learning how nature and it's beautiful creatures work and live together in harmony with the earth.

This craft is a great and easy way to demonstrate how worms work, live and breed. It is one thing to dig through the compost but this really gives an up close view of how it all works.

This is our Worm Farm or the Wormery.

What you need to get started:

A large plastic pop bottle

Construction Paper

Glue

Plastic Wrap

Scissors

Dirt

Dried leaves, Hay or Sawdust

Sand

Worms

Step 1: Wash out the pop bottle and cut off the top portion.

Step 2: Fill bottle with layers of soil, sand and dried leaves, hay and or sawdust.

Step 3: Top off layers with hay or leaves.

Step 4: Start digging. We put 6 worms in each bottle, but I am sure any amount would due fine.

Step 6: Add a bit of water to moisten the soil, but not too much, don't want to drown the poor worms.

Step 7: Cover the top of the bottle with plastic wrap and poke air holes into the top.


Step 8: Cut construction paper to the appropriate height and glue to the exterior of the bottle. We glued ours paper to paper so it made a sleeve that we can remove in order to look at the worms when needed.


Step 9: Place Wormery in a cool location and check daily to see if it needs water. Within a few days you will notice worms making trials and "nests" all around inside the bottle. Soon there will be many more worms and I am sure many more questions.

Of course no craft can go undecorated in our world, so the ladies drew names and pictures for the worms to look at while they were there. Ever so thoughtful.

Enjoy your little nature lesson and be certain to return to the earth when the lesson is over.