Hibernation
“Hibernation is an extended period of deep sleep, or torpor, that allows animals to survive winter extremes. Reducing metabolic rate and lowering body temperature enables survival through cold periods when food is scarce or has little energy value. Hibernating species usually work hard to build up large fat reserves before they bed down, and subsist on this during their torpor. They might wake up at intervals to defecate or top up on food.”
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Sounds like a good idea to me. Computers can hibernate too. Wish humans did lol.
When my son came home from playgroup telling me he was going to wear his pyjamas in order to learn more about hibernation it got me thinking about a blog post I had seen on Little Sheep Learning with cooking and craft ideas for hedgehogs.
That’s when I decided that for tea we should have HEDGEHOGS!
Needless to say my 8 year old was not happy.
“I do not want to eat a hedgehog!” he cried.
But he soon changed his mind when the first one was brought to the table.
Body – Jacket potato
Eyes – tomatoes on sticks
Prickles – cheese and pineapple
Grass – salad leaves, cucumber pieces
Sticks – fish fingers sliced.
4 year old decided that the hedgehog wanted to camouflage under the grass.
This was amazing as my children often refuse to eat salad but did eat some (if not all) of it.
Craft
Next we made some hedgehogs by drawing around our feet for the bodies, and our hands for the spikes – colouring them in and sticking them together.
A grown up helper may be required to help with cutting and sticking.
We then stuck them to some mince pie cases to make the hedgehogs stand up.
Looks like you had lots of hedgehog fun – thanks for the link 🙂
Thank you yes we did. Planning on doing some of your hedgehog cakes soon too 🙂
Love this! Such cute ideas haha. 🙂 Thanks for the comment on my blog, sent my email to follow you!
Wow that hedgehog looks amazing!! I would love a dinner like that!
Aww such a lovely idea, your hedgehogs look fab too 🙂 Xxx
Thank you 🙂
Those Hedgehogs are CUTE! I’ll have to remember that one. We tried gluing leaves on cutout hedgehogs- but they really didn’t work so well…
Which glue did you use? The very sticky pva glue seems to work better than the sticks for things like that. We collected and painted different types of leaves last year.
Thanks for stopping by to comment.
That’s lovely. It’s really great when you can take 1 thing and really capture their imagination with it.
Might have to invest in some cocktail sticks.
Its awesome. Good way to get kids to eat salad! New follower from the hop.
Have a great day!
This looks great,My kids would love this, Thanks for linking up 🙂
That hedgehog “salad” looks awesome! I bet you had a lot of fun making it, almost a much fun as they had eating it 🙂 Thanks for linking up!