{"id":1242,"date":"2024-05-15T19:07:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2024-05-15T19:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:07:41","slug":"build-a-bug-hotel-activity-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/build-a-bug-hotel-activity-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Build a Bug Hotel Activity for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We love the book Bug Hotel<\/a><\/em> by Libby Walden and Clover Robin. My kids like the idea of bugs living together in a cozy hotel so much that we thought we\u2019d try building our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the “hotel”, I used a cardboard box with 2 bamboo utsenil box inserts from Dollarama. Then I placed a number of materials in the tray that the kids could put in the hotel for different insect habitats. The Bug Hotel<\/em><\/a> book provides the perfect guidance for this activity. Our habitat materials were mostly gathered from around the house and outside. We used mini stumps, pine needles, sticks, pinecones, scrunched paper filler, seed heads, moss, egg carton, bamboo pieces, toilet paper rolls. I also cut some slits in pieces of cardboard to use for butterfly habitats. Everything was easy to collect, with the exception of the bamboo pieces. I bought the bamboo pole from Dollarama and had to use some muscle to cut it into 2-3 inch pieces with a saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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