A FESTIVE workshop for kids to make nest packing containers for birds and bug inns for bugs noticed a packed home on Saturday (December 9).
The occasion, within the Friends Meeting House, in Wellington city centre, was led by Milverton Conservation Volunteer Group in partnership with native Transition Town members.
A accomplished chook field in a youngsters’s workshop led by Milverton conservation volunteers and Transition Town Wellington. ( )
More than 20 nest packing containers and bug inns had been made by the youngsters and their dad and mom.
The corridor was full of the sounds of well-supervised hammering, sticking, and stapling, and on the finish of the session, a number of youngsters had produced future houses for birds and mini beasts.
Putting the ending touches to a chook field throughout a youngsters’s workshop in Wellington. ( )
The kids had been additionally supplied with recommendation on the most effective location for his or her nest packing containers and knowledge on the kind of birds seemingly to make use of them.
A spokesperson stated: “The children’s concentration while working on the boxes and hotels was a joy to see, and the wonderful sense of achievement as they proudly presented the finished results was clear to us all.
Trevor Phelps (right) and some of his elves who led a children’s workshop making bird nest boxes and bug hotels. ( )
“It was a fabulous event and resulted in some lovely home-made Christmas gifts to put under the tree this year.
“Let us hope the nesting birds in the spring will enjoy their new homes.”
Leading the exercise was a ‘cheery, six-foot-six elf in stripey tights’, Trevor Phelps, who with different volunteers supervised the workshop.
