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Make your own insect 'hotel'

School holiday workshops for kids and families. An adult must accompany each booked group of kids. Cost $16.91 per child includes all materials supplied. (accompanying adult tickets are free).

Details - two sessions:

Monday 24th September both sessions for children 8+ yrs old.

Book 9:30am-11.30am

Book 1.00pm-3.00pm

About this school holiday workshop...

This hands on insect and native bee hotel school holiday workshop is aimed at 8 to 12 year olds. Each participant will make a 'hotel' out of up-cycled materials that they can take home along with information sheets and advice on how to attract pollinators and other beneficial insects to the garden. All materials supplied. Children must be accompanied by and adult - accompanying adult tickets are free.

This workshop will be facilitated by Yann Toussaint from the Rainbow Coast Community Garden. Yann is a gardener, poet and sustainability educator who lives in Albany, Western Australia. A former nursery manager at Men of the Trees, where he helped found the Children's Forest, he now runs the popular "Garden Grubs" children's gardening club through the Rainbow Coast Neighbourhood Centre's Community Garden, delivers a wide range of sustainability workshops and teaches at the University of Western Australia's Albany Campus.