Bug Activities

Gardening for bugs sheets

There are small steps we can all take to help conserve bugs at home - whether that be through making a 'hotel' for solitary bees or planting wildflowers in a container.

Make the bees happy! Another way to make homes for solitary bees - holes drilled into logs

Our downloadable advice sheets will guide you step by step through activities to make your garden an oasis for bugs. Why not involve your children or grandchildren - have fun and learn about bugs at the same time. Or these could be classroom activities - everyone could make a bee hotel to take home.

Create a bee hotel

Create a bug-friendly garden

Create a bug hotel

Colouring sheets

Bugs are amazing! Let your youngsters explore the huge variety of shapes and colours that bugs come in by colouring in their own bug pictures. Theses would make a great display on a

Colourful bugs - the beautiful Scarlet malachite beetle (Malachius aeneus) © Chris Gibson

Butterfly

Beetle

Spider

Bumblebee

Grasshopper

Ladybird

Bug puzzles

This Bug Hunt wordsearch will get youngsters searching for bug words, rather than actual bugs! Follow it up with a hunt outside to find the real things!