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Description

This easy bug hotel is probably as simple and as easy as it gets.
It's perfect to make during an online or in-person meeting.
Made using recycling and natural items from the garden or gathered on a nature walk you will be able to improvise and up-cycle any number of things to make something amazing for the bugs in the garden!

Resources

A large (2ltr) cola/drink plastic bottle
Scissors
Heavy string or garden twine (or similar)
Natural items such as: dry sticks, pine cones, dry leaves, dead wood, bark, bits of garden cane, broken ceramic pots, straw, paper drinking straws, ... anything else you can find. Think natural, hidey-holes, nooks and crannies and something that should last.

Instructions

Cut the bottle:
Using scissors (BE CAREFUL) remove the curved top and bottom of the bottle.
Cut the main body into two roughly equal length cylinders.

Attach the string:
Cut a generous length of twine / string and loop it through one of the cylinders.
Tie the string together. Double up the string if it's not particularly strong.

Fill the body of the hotel:
Using the natural items you have collected stuff the cylinder until it is nice and firm, so it doesn’t get blown about!

Open for business!:
Hang your bug hotel in a suitably sheltered spot in your garden and leave it for the first guests to arrive.


MIX IT UP...
Rather than a soft drink bottle, why not re-cycle a 4 or 6 pint milk bottle by cutting a hole in one side and hanging from the top?

Tags

• birds
• bug
• bug hotel
• garden
• hotel
• Natural activity
• Nature Activities
• online

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