Shhhhhh! Our Hedgehogs are hibernating!

This week we have been looking very carefully around our school, we have noticed that many of the trees are bare and the ground is covered in beautiful Autumn leaves. We have talked about how the weather is becoming colder and the days are shorter.
We've been thinking about the animals that live in the Forest School area. We watched a video that showed us that a Hedgehog hibernates when the weather gets cold. This means they make a warm cosy leaf nest in the bottom of the hedgerows and they sleep through the Winter.
When we went out for Wellie Wednesday this week we made some hedgehogs of our own from mud, leaves and sticks.

What do you think?

 

We all found lovely hiding places to put our hedgehogs in so they could hibernate. Then we searched the forest school area to make sure there was enough food for the hedgehogs.
We searched for worms, slugs and insects - all of the foods which hedgehogs love!
We found lots!

Maybe you could make some muddy hedgehogs in your garden!