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Thinking sheet · Imagine and invent
Design a Bug Hotel
Plan a hotel for bees, beetles and ladybugs. Draw the rooms, the guests and what each room is made of.
- Grades
- K–4
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Imagine and invent
- Kids practice
- habitats, design, caring for nature
What kids do
“Bugs need a place to stay too! Design a hotel just for them.”
- Fill your bug hotel with rooms and guests
- Materials I’d use:
- My favorite guest and why:
How to run it
- Real bug hotels are stacks of natural things in a frame; show a photo.
- Different bugs like different rooms: bees like hollow stems.
- Build a mini one in a can if you can.
Talk about it
- Why do gardens need bugs?
- Where should the hotel go?
- Which guest would be the noisiest?
Take it further
Write the bug hotel’s welcome sign.
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