Stay Home Biodiversity – Sample Week A
Monday Activity – Up-cycled Plant Pots
Age Group: Primary Junior and Senior, Secondary
Green-Schools Officer Robert Nelson has made a step-by-step guide on how to make your own seedling plant pots. All you need is a scissors, loo roll tubes and a marker. It’s very easy and can be completed by young children. Give loo roll tubes a second use and save money on buying new plant pots to sow your seeds in.
Tuesday Activity- Bug Hotel
Age Group: Primary Junior and Senior
Green-Schools Officer Rebecca takes you through a step-by-step guide on how to make your very own miniature DIY Bug Hotel. All you need is a scissors, string and three plastic bottles and to go foraging for dried autumn debris. It’s very easy and can be completed by young children with the help of an adult or older child.
Earth Day Activity – Nature Diary
Age Group: Primary Junior and Senior
To celebrate Earth Day we were saving this special nature idea activity to share with students. Have a look at our nature storytelling diary extract for inspiration. Download the diary template, or design your own, and enter the observations you make into the calendar day. Based on what you see or find, maybe there is an activity on the Biodiversity Stay Home project page which you can do to complete the diary activity.
Thursday Activity – Framed Bug Hotel
Age Group: Secondary
Green-Schools Officer Rebecca takes you through a step-by-step guide on how to make your very own framed Bug Hotel. All you need is a scissors, string, three plastic bottles, scrap wood, a tack hammer and tacks and to go foraging for dried autumn debris. It’s fairly easy, and can be completed by students of secondary level or primary-aged students with the help of an adult.
Friday Share – Make a Bird Feeder Necklace with LEAF
Age Group: All
Activities this week have been focused on attracting wildlife into the garden or to the balcony/windowsill. Below are six species found in Ireland, but can you guess which of these are native Irish species? Answers are behind the flip-box!
Native to Ireland 🏆
The most common finch in Ireland – found in woodland, parks and gardens.
Native to Ireland 🏆
A very common butterfly found in gardens, woodlands and hedgerows.
Native to Ireland 🏆
Originally a woodland bird, but is commonly seen in parks and gardens
Native to Ireland 🏆
The pine marten is a rare mammal in Ireland and is a protected species
Native to Ireland 🏆
The only hedgehog found in Ireland is the Western European hedgehog
Non-Native
The grey squirrel is in fact, native to eastern North America