Native Bee Hotel Making for Children
Join Clancy, that Bee Guy for a hands-on Native Bee Hotel Making for Children, where you’ll learn how to create eco-friendly habitats and gardens for native bees!
Using both recycled and natural materials like PVC pipe and hollow stems, you’ll construct your own bee hotel while Learning about the best native plants for native bees and pollinators that play a critical role in supporting biodiversity.
Suitable for children aged 7-12years old, but they must be accompanied by a parent or adult carer. This event is proudly part of the Maribyrnong Sustainable Living Festival and My Smart Garden. Maribyrnong City Council is a child safe organisation committed to child safety and supporting the best interests of children in all its operations.
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Materials are supplied but if you have the following, please feel free to bring these materials, brown, dried, hollow stems of bamboo, or flower heads like kangaroo paw, agapanthus, and native reeds, Strips of paper bark is useful too.
Please note that this is an event for Naarm/Melbourne gardeners only. If you live outside this area, please contact your council to find out what free sustainable gardening events are available locally.
If you have any access or support questions or requirements in order to participate fully (eg. interpreter), please let us know at least two weeks prior to the event and we will be pleased to assist you. Photos will be taken at this event, but there is an option to opt out on the day.
This My Smart Garden event is proudly presented by Maribyrnong City Council on the land of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and the Bunurong peoples of the Kulin nation. My Smart Garden pays our respect to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledges that First Nations peoples have cared for Country sustainably for tens of thousands of years.
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