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Decorate and Create your own Bug Hotel

The best bug hotels have lots of small spaces in different shapes and sizes and made from different materials. Ideally, some should be nice and dry inside, and others a bit dampish. Bug hotels are generally made from reclaimed materials, or natural objects, which reduces cost, helps them blend in with their surroundings and is probably more attractive to the mini-beast guests.

This workshop will last approximately 1 hour (depending on your child's age and speed). All materials will be provided. We recommend this will be suitable for children 3 + however adult discretion is advised.

You will be given free rein to use paints and pens to create and decorate your unique home for all things creepy & crawly in your garden.

What might check in to your bug hotel?

A surprisingly wide variety of invertebrates including nesting mason bees and leaf cutter bees, woodlice hiding from the sun – and woodlice spiders hunting woodlice, earwigs hiding their babies from predators, ladybirds and lacewings hibernating over winter, beetle larvae feeding on the dead wood, funnel web spiders and centipedes storing their prey.

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    Children's Craft Workshop
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    Children's Craft Workshop

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    Children's Craft Workshop

Decorate and Create your own Bug Hotel

The best bug hotels have lots of small spaces in different shapes and sizes and made from different materials. Ideally, some should be nice and dry inside, and others a bit dampish. Bug hotels are generally made from reclaimed materials, or natural objects, which reduces cost, helps them blend in with their surroundings and is probably more attractive to the mini-beast guests.

This workshop will last approximately 1 hour (depending on your child's age and speed). All materials will be provided. We recommend this will be suitable for children 3 + however adult discretion is advised.

You will be given free rein to use paints and pens to create and decorate your unique home for all things creepy & crawly in your garden.

What might check in to your bug hotel?

A surprisingly wide variety of invertebrates including nesting mason bees and leaf cutter bees, woodlice hiding from the sun – and woodlice spiders hunting woodlice, earwigs hiding their babies from predators, ladybirds and lacewings hibernating over winter, beetle larvae feeding on the dead wood, funnel web spiders and centipedes storing their prey.

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