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Description

Pet Care 5: Create an animal house. Build a simple bug house for the garden.
Arts and Crafts 5: Make something from recycled items.

Resources

Collect the following beforehand, maybe on a
ramble in the forest /park
• Moss
• Dried grass
• Pinecones
• Twigs
• Dried Leaves
• Stones
• Fallen Bark

From the house
• Toilet paper rolls
• Milk Carton or large two litre Soda bottle
• Acrylic paint
• Large straws or rolled up piece of paper
• Craft Knife
• Acrylic paint
• Optional: Sharpies, Black dot stickers, washi
tape.

Instructions

1. Cut a large opening on one side of the milk carton using a craft knife.
2. Paint the outside of the milk carton red. Set aside to dry. Or get the girls to decorate with red
Washi tape.
3. You can decorate with black dot stickers so that it looks like a ladybug.
4. Seal the paint with water proof sealer, especially if you want to keep your bug hotel outside in
an area where it can get wet.
5. If using soda bottles, you could again decorate with washi tape or sharpies.
6. Grab and insert 7-8 toilet paper rolls into the milk carton.
7. Start by adding some dried grass or moss around the sides of the rolls and in the back of the
milk carton.
8. Then start to fill each tube. Fill one with moss, another with sticks, another with rolled up pieces
of paper. another with more moss, another with pine cones and another with cut paper straws.
Fill another with twigs. Fill another with pebbles.
9. Fill in the sides of the milk carton with rocks, dried grass, sticks and pine cones or moss.
10. Make a sign out of cardboard reading BUG HOTEL!
11. Place it outside and watch ants, ladybirds, spiders and maybe bees move in!

Tags

• arts
• arts and crafts
• bug
• bug hotel
• care
• craft
• ladybird Arts and Craft
• ladybird pet care
• Pet
• pet care
• recycle
• Recycled Craft

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