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Plastic Free July 2021

For Plastic Free July this year I made an enormous display board to put outside my house to raise awareness of the impact of unnecessary plastic and tell people about some good alternatives. One on side of the board I put lots of unnecessary plastic items like a plastic toothbrush, a baby wipe, a plasticContinue reading “Plastic Free July 2021”

Visiting Skomer Island

On Sunday 13th June I visited Skomer Island. We went on a boat to get there. When we got on the boat there was a sign saying to check your luggage to make sure there weren’t any rats or mice hiding in there! That’s because they don’t live there at the moment and if theyContinue reading “Visiting Skomer Island”

National Children’s Gardening Week: Garden Wildlife Surveys

Here’s my third video for National Children’s Gardening Week, all about how you can help wildlife in your garden. This video is about wildlife surveys you can do in your garden. Getting involved in wildlife surveys is a chance to learn more about the wildlife in your garden and it helps wildlife because it helpsContinue reading “National Children’s Gardening Week: Garden Wildlife Surveys”

National Children’s Gardening Week: Upcycling in the Garden

This week is National Children’s Gardening Week and I’ve been making some videos about helping wildlife in your garden. My first video was about plants for wildlife. My second video is about some ideas for upcycling in your garden. Here it is! I hope you enjoyed watching it and I hope it’s given you someContinue reading “National Children’s Gardening Week: Upcycling in the Garden”

National Children’s Gardening Week: Plants for Wildlife

This week is National Children’s Gardening Week. It’s about how fun gardens are for children. I like gardening and I especially like wildlife gardening and trying to make my garden as good for wildlife as possible. For National Children’s Gardening Week I’m making some videos about my garden. I have done one so far. It’sContinue reading “National Children’s Gardening Week: Plants for Wildlife”

World Bee Day

Today is World Bee Day! Bees are really important because we need them to pollinate plants including a lot of the food we eat. But bee numbers are going down and they need help! Here are some things that we have done and you can do to help bees. Flowers for beesFlowers are really importantContinue reading “World Bee Day”

Hedgehog Awareness Week 2021

This week (2nd-8th May) is Hedgehog Awareness Week! Hedgehog Awareness Week is a time to focus on helping hedgehogs. My brothers and I have been using this week to help hedgehogs in our garden and tell other people all about helping hedgehogs too. At the start of the week, we made two new hedgehog houses.Continue reading “Hedgehog Awareness Week 2021”

Putting Out Nesting Materials For The Birds

At this time of year, birds are making nests. Putting out nesting materials for the birds to use is a way to help them. We’ve been putting out sheep’s wool which comes as insulation with our orders from Riverford Dairy. We made a holder by weaving willow and put the sheep’s wool inside it, thenContinue reading “Putting Out Nesting Materials For The Birds”

Hedgehog House

We made a hedgehog house. We made it using these instructions from the RSPB, but we changed it a bit to give it little legs to raise it up from the ground so the bottom wouldn’t get wet and soggy. We started off with a big bit of plywood. We made sure we chose plywoodContinue reading “Hedgehog House”

BTO Garden Birdwatch

This year we are doing a survey called the BTO Garden BirdWatch. The BTO Garden Birdwatch is a survey run by the British Trust for Ornitholgy (BTO). It’s to find out how birds are getting on in gardens. You have to do it every week if possible. You have to count the birds which comeContinue reading “BTO Garden Birdwatch”