I loved making a bug hotel
Chipper here, calling all Chipsters!
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Greetings Chipsters everywhere! I hope you have been staying safe this week. With all that has been going on recently, I have a new-found appreciation for nature. Well, I have always loved it, from going on long walks in the New Forest to splashing around in the sea at Southsea. For my whole life, our natural spaces have been my playground.
A couple of weeks ago, mum, dad and I watched
David Attenborough’s new documentary called Extinction:
The Facts. The statistics he quoted terrified me.
And that’s why I have decided to create a big hotel to help the local wildlife. It’s only a small thing I can do, but, as they say, every little helps.
Dad helped me find some old wood and bricks to slot together to make the base of the hotel. Then my best feline friend Brindley Milligan and Ronnie the Rottweiler helped me find twigs, pine cones, bark and straw to pad out the hotel.
Finally, we added moss and green leaves to the top of the hotel. We kept filling it up until we were convinced that bugs would think this would be a nice place to live.
And it wasn’t too bad, if I do say so myself!
Maybe some Chipsters would like to make a bug hotel?
As David Attenborough said: ‘Young people are a great source of hope’. So that’s why we have to work together to save the planet.
Stay safe, Chipsters. Chip,