How It Works

MAKE A BEE HOTEL

1 FIND YOUR MATERIALS

To create a spacious home, make sure your cylindrical container is at least ten centimetres deep. If you don’t have paper straws, find some paper and you can make your own.

2 MAKE THE ROOMS

If you don’t have straws, take a piece of paper and a pencil and roll the paper into tubes the same width as the

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