First we had to use spades to dig in the garden to find the worms for our worm farm. We learned that their are special kinds of worms that we needed to use, called tiger worms.
Next, we made our worms farms out of a bottle and old newspaper. We covered the bottle with newspaper. We had to tear strips of newspaper and make them wet to put into our worm farms. Worms like dark, moist places.
After that, we had to find worms to put into our worm farms! There was an old bathtub filled with soil. We had to dig into with our hands to get the worms out. We had to hold the worms by ourselves. That is okay, because worms don't have teeth so they can't bite us. We added five worms to our worm farm, and put the lid on so they couldn't crawl out!
These are our completed worm farms. We put soil and grass seed in the lid. We need to feed our worms regularly. In the school holidays we can take them home and add them to our compost or garden. We wonder how many worms we will have in our worm farm by then?
We had a great time on our trip, and we learned so much about worms. A big thank you to our wonderful educator Katie from the Christchurch City Council, who made the topic come alive for us.
