Ata mārie e te whānau, Ranger Glenn back here again.
I think it's really important for us to all get out there
and get a bit of "vitamin N", vitamin nature, vitamin D.
Just get out there and explore.
So today I've stepped it up a little bit.
We're going to make five star DIY bug hotels for our backyard.
So you going to need a few little things to source this afternoon.
We've all got scissors at home.
A few bits of cardboard and really handy
some colouring in pencils for a bit later on
for the pretty stuff and a shoebox.
You could make a big one,
but I'm going to start off small just to see how it goes.
So shoebox with my cardboard.
What I'm doing is I'm going to cut them
into the right size so they slot together.
So I've made some little cuts there
that's just going to slide in like the that.
Very cool.
This one's going to slide in like that,
and then I'm going to place them in my box.
What I've done is I have just created
a two storey, six bedroom bug hotel.
Now, that's the cool bit.
The really exciting bit is this morning I got out
and went on an adventure and I found lots of little things
to create some little bedrooms.
So some ponga that
I had some ponga fronds that had fallen off from my back garden,
so I cut these up to the right size.
Other things I found out there.
I found these little logs that can help, so they'll love those.
Some amazing leaves.
So these are off the pūriri leaves, the pūriri tree sorry.
I explained to you the other day with the amazing berries
also got little cardboard rings.
So lots of cool things out there.
Get out there
and really have a good look around and find some pretty cool stuff.
So this is what I'm going to do.
So I've got my little bug hotel.
I'm going to turn it up that way.
I'm going to choose some of these cool little things to pop in.
So I've got logs I'm going to place those in there,
then come down the bottom.
I'm going to do like a little this is a little log cabin so
some log cabins down the bottom just kind of place those in there.
When I was out looking,
I found this amazing feather as well.
It's a little bit big, but I'm just going to keep that
in my special little treasure case for later.
So here we go.
Bear with me.
In we go
so they like my little,
I've put the log cabins downstairs.
What next? Wow. What next?
I think we need like a a leaf litter.
I've got all my leaves and I'm gonna pour that in there, and
these leaves are quite wet.
So I think the bugs are gonna love that.
So I've got those in there.
This is my little bug hotel. What else have I got?
Oh, let's make another one.
I've got these ponga leaves, so I'm going to pop that there.
Wow. This is looking so cozy.
I might have to top some of them up a little bit later on.
And then in the middle, I've got some cardboard.
I'm wondering what sort of bugs might want to
hide out in that cardboard.
Some brown paper.
So I'm gonna pop those in there. Wow.
This hotel
is looking really really awesome.
So there we go.
Some little card and lucky, lucky last.
Different form of leaf.
So this one here
this has come off the rimu trees up the back there.
So there we go.
So, team, my little two story, six bedroom
bug hotel might need to just push them in a little bit there,
but what do you reckon?
Can you see those cool little environments?
Now, do you think the hotel needs a little bit of signage?
Well, I created this a little bit earlier.
So here we go.
This is my five star bug hotel.
Roof and signage.
How cool is that?
So there you go, team.
Today's little Wild Child Backyard Challenge.
Is to get out there and start creating your own bug hotel.
The fun that is now.
Now I've got to go and find location, location, location.
So I'm going to find somewhere nice and close to home
so I can come out when I'm doing my little barefoot adventures
and just check in on, see how the bugs are doing.
So keep safe out there.
Keep in touch with nature.
Keep tuned in to these cool, cool little videos.
And please share these cool videos or little photos that you've got
with all of our friends here at the Auckland Parks Facebook page.
Once again. Take care.
Kia ora!