Kids activities
If you love everything that buzzes, flutters and flies, get an adult to help you make your very own bee hotel, butterfly cafe or bird feeder and help bring more lovely wildlife in your garden!
It's really important to create homes for wildlife, like birds, bees and butterflies. And to feed them too. But how much wildlife do you have visiting your garden? With our easy spotter you can count your BBBs... your birds, bees and butterflies.
And if you love to munch and crunch on something yummy, why not get an adult to help you make some of our fun recipes? Enjoy!
Help make homes for wildlife!
The birds, bees and butterflies of your garden need as many places to eat, sleep and rest as they can. Help by making these three fun things!
Make a bird apple feeder
Make a bee hotel
Make a butterfly cafe
What's your BBB count?
Is your back garden a busy buzzing home for wildlife? How many birds, bees and butterflies have you made homes for in your garden? It's easy and fun to find out!
Download and print these guides to the most common birds bees and butterflies, stick them on your fridge then mark on the picture every time you spot a bird!
Common garden birds
Common garden bees
Common garden butterflies
If you like colouring in, download and print these outline versions, ready and waiting for your paint, pen or crayon art!
Colour in birds
Colour in bees
Colour in butterflies
Cook!
Sticky marshmallow muesli treats
200g Natural Muesli
30g Butter
400g Marshmallows
- Warm the butter and marshmallows in a large bowl in the microwave until melted.
- Stir in the natural muesli. Make sure it's all covered with the yummy sticky stuff.
- Using two tablespoons (or your hands if you don't mind getting messy!) shape into little balls (around the size of a golf ball) and leave to set on a sheet of baking parchment.
- Chill in the fridge.
Country Crisp crunchies
160g Strawberry Country Crisp
250g white chocolate
30g desiccated coconut
- Melt the chocolate in a large bowl in the microwave.
- Stir the Country Crisp into the chocolate and mix in the coconut.
- Spoon the coated cereal into fairy cake cases.
- Pop in the fridge to set.
Banana oaty flapjacks
50g butter
50g brown sugar
1tbsp golden syrup
220g Jordans Quick and Creamy Porridge Oats
1 big banana
- In a large bowl, melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a bowl in the microwave.
- Chop or mash up the banana and mix into the butter and sugar.
- Add the oats and stir well.
- Spread onto a greased baking sheet or into a flapjack tin and press down with the back of a spoon.
- Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes or until brown (get an adult to help!)
- Cut into squares and leave to cool.