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Tuesday 26th July 2022

School children get creative designing bird boxes and bug hotels

Year 2 Pupils at a Garrick Green Infant School, in Norwich, have been busy designing and painting bird boxes and bug hotels ready to welcome birds and insects to their new homes

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Making sustainability fun

As part of their aim to encourage sustainability in and around the community, Taylor Wimpey East Anglia made a donation of bird boxes and bug hotels to the school and challenged them to make them as colourful and welcoming as possible.

The children got to work using paints and colouring pencils to transform the plain wooden boxes into brightly coloured homes for birds and insects. The bird box designed by Raph and Matilda was picked as Taylor Wimpey’s favourite and both pupils received a bug hotel as a prize. 
Caroline Carter, Sales and Marketing Director at Taylor Wimpey East Anglia, said: “We would like to say a huge thank you to the pupils from Garrick Green Infant school for getting involved with our competition - they did a fantastic job. 

“Enhancing the natural environment that surrounds our community is really important to us and we hope it’s only a matter of time before the bird boxes and bug hotels are full with lots of wonderful species.”

For some top tips from Taylor Wimpey on how to make your garden bug friendly, please click here.