Seaside Scavenger Hunt

 

Sea of love.

This Scavenger Hunt was written especially for

Greystones South Beach.

 

We will choose only the things that we can collect

and return safely and without damage.

 

1. A small black pebble

2. A feather

3. A pebble with a hole in it

4. A mermaid’s purse

(dog fish egg case or whelk egg case)

5. A limpet (or part of)

6. A mussel (or part of)

7. A whelk (or part of)

8. Something beautiful

9. Some sea lettuce

10. A sea belt

11. Some bladder wrack

12. Something that makes a noise

13. A small white pebble

14. A pink flower

15. Something soft

16. A yellow flower

17. Something important in nature

(Everything in nature is important!)

18. A small grey pebble

19. Any part of a crab

20. Something that reminds you of yourself

21. A white flower

22. A sun trap (This is anything that captures the sun’s heat)

23. More than 100 of something!

24. Something that the sea has changed

25. A creature’s home (make sure it is empty).

26. Something round

27. A big smile

 

At the end we will leave what we have found on the beach.

We will:

‘Leave only footprints.

Take only memories’.

Seaside Scavenger Hunt

We are going on a Seaside Scavenger hunt.

We will be on the look out for seals,

or porpoise

or dolphins.

We will walk down towards

the Three Trout River and

on the way back we will look for;

 

1. A small black pebble

2. A feather

3. A pebble with a hole in it

4. A mermaid’s purse

(dog fish egg case

MERMAID'S PURSE
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or whelk egg case)

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5. A limpet (or part of)

Gizeh-sur-Mer
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6. A mussel (or part of)

mussles
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7. A whelk (or part of)

Neptunea sp.
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8. Something beautiful

9. Some sea lettuce

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10. A sea belt

Sea belt kelp on Traigh na Doirlinn
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11. Some bladder wrack

Bladderwrack in water
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12. Something that makes a noise

13. A small white pebble

14. A pink flower

15. Something soft

16. A yellow flower

17. Something important in nature

(Everything in nature is important!)

18. A small grey pebble

19. Any part of a crab

20. Something that reminds you of yourself

21. A white flower

22. A sun trap (This is anything that captures the sun’s heat)

23. More than 100 of something!

24. Something that the sea has changed

25. A creature’s home (make sure it is empty).

26. Something round

27. A big smile

 

At the end we will leave what we have found on the beach.

We will:

‘Leave only footprints. Take only memories’.

 

We also have plans for games with the parachute.

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We’ll have a sing song.

We will play circle games like

‘Ship’s cat and mouse’

‘Captain Black’s Magic Handshake’

Aye, aye Captain

Ship, sea, shore

and Sticky Toffee.

We have a message in bottle that we will throw into the sea.

Monochrome message in a bottle
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Seaside Scavenger Hunt

Today we went on a Seaside Scavenger Hunt.

 

This is what we collected:
New And Improved Seaside Scavenger Hunt

Choose only things that you can collect

and return safely and without damage

1. A small black pebble

2. A feather

3. A pebble with a hole in it

4. A mermaid’s purse

(dog fish egg case or whelk egg case)

5. A limpet (or part of)

6. A mussel (or part of)

7. A whelk (or part of)

8. Something beautiful

9. Some sea lettuce

10. A sea belt

11. Some bladder wrack

12. Something that makes a noise

13. A small white pebble

14. A pink flower

15. Something soft

16. A yellow flower

17. Something important in nature

(Everything in nature is important!)

18. A small grey pebble

19. Any part of a crab

20. Something that reminds you of yourself

21. A white flower

22. A sun trap (This is anything that captures the sun’s heat)

23. More than 100 of something!

24. Something that the sea has changed

25. A creature’s home

26. Something round

27. A big smile

At the very end, after we have showed each other what we found ,

we left what we found on the beach.

Leave only footprints.

Take away only memories!

Taya found a cowrie 🙂

which is a very unusual find on our local beach.

Well done Taya.

We sent away a ‘message in a bottle’. Maks threw it into the sea and we waved it goodbye.

 

 “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) 
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea”  

ee cummings