Insect hotel

The class builds a house for wild bees and insects and hangs it in the school garden.

Steps

1. Conversation: why bees and other pollinators are important for plants and food.
2. Children fill a wooden box or cans with: reeds, pinecones, bark, drilled blocks.
3. You hang the hotel on a sunny wall sheltered from the rain, at a height of 1-2 m.
4. Over the following weeks, children record what insects moved into the hotel.

Tip: A ready-to-assemble kit saves time; the children still do the filling themselves.

Materials needed

• Insect house kit to assemble (1 set)
• Reed mat (reed for filling) (1 roll)
• Magnifying glasses for children (1 per 2 children)