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Invite bugs, insects and small world guests to your very own Bug Hotel! This structure can be packed with suitable materials to entice creepy crawlies into your playground, providing children with inhabitants to spectate and admire as they make themselves at home. This item is ideal for Natural Play areas, or areas of abundant vegetation in the playground - allowing you to bring the lesson outside where children can enjoy science up close. 
The bug hotel provides insects and minibeasts with a habitat to live in within the playground. A great item to incorporate into science lessons, encouraging children to develop an interest in conservation and the great outdoors.

Bug Hotel

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Category: Natural Play Tags: Bespoke, Bug, Hotel, Insect, Natural Play, Sticks
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Welcome to the Bug Hotel!

Invite bugs, insects and small world guests to your very own Bug Hotel! This structure can be packed with suitable materials to entice creepy crawlies into your playground, providing children with inhabitants to spectate and admire as they make themselves at home. This item is ideal for Natural Play areas, or areas of abundant vegetation in the playground – allowing you to bring the lesson outside where children can enjoy science up close.

The Brilliance of a Bug Hotel

Not only do Bug Hotels provide children with an eco-friendly science lesson in the playground, they also entice bugs and minibeasts into a safe space for them to shelter, multiply and seek refuge from predators.

Bug Hotels can be packed full of upcycled garden materials and natural items such as leaves, sticks, cotton and timber.

Grow confidence in children as they identify new species, log their findings during science lessons and learn all about conservation.

Features:

  • Timber construction
  • Multiple rooms available

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Age group

All

Dimensions

1.2m x 0.2m

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