Build a bug hotel
Tutor: Rachel Moore, print artist
Encourage children to get out in the garden by making a bug hotel with them. In this session, Rachel uses items that you might find in the shed and around the garden to make sure your insects are, as the saying goes, ‘as snug as a bug in a rug'!
Preparation:
Prepare your materials.
Video time:
15 minutes.
- A structure to act as the basis of your hotel, such as a wooden box and air bricks, terracotta / plastic plant pot(s) etc
- A variety of twigs, sticks, small blocks of wood, fir cones and similar items
- A drill (optional)