Butterfly Food
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Lucy gardens - kid gardening activities |
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~Encouraging butterflies into your backyard garden
~ Help Kids to create a backyard wildlife habitat teeming with butterflies
~ Make a Butterfly feeding Station
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| How to Make a Butterfly Feeding Station | | |
| what you will need: | | Attract Butterflies |
~ old soft fruit
~ a bowl for mixing
~ a masher (a tool for mashing potatoes etc)
~ a feeding plate ( an old plate from the kitchen will do, use a couple of you liek several feeding stations)
~ soft brown sugar | ~ it is easy to attract butterfly into your kid garden
~ feed butterfly from the food station
~ lots of butterflies come into their wings late in summer and then hibernate as adult butterflies
~ they need lots of sugar to build up their body fat reserves to help them survive the cold winter season
~ plant flowewrs and plants that attract butterflies |
| How to Make Butterflies Food |
~ take some old soft fruit like bananas, old apples and pears,grapes, plums, nectarines etc
~ when they are old they are overripe and soft enough to mash
~ add all your fruits into your mixing bowl , removing any hard stalks and fruit pips
~ take the masher and mash them all up
~ now add some brown sugar into the butterflies food mix and stir again
~ Once the butterfly feeding mixture is nice and soft add a little water to make it runny and easy for the butterflies to sip up
~ pour the butterfly feeding mixture onto your plate
~ find a suitable spot in your backyard wildlife garden and place the butterfly food there
~ Watch the hungry butterflies enjoy their tasty food |
| Gardening with Kids |
~ Creating a Wildlife Refuge for your local garden animals, insects, butterflies, birds and bees takes only a few easy steps and is very rewarding for any little kid gardener
~ Do you have a littke kid garden area in your home ?
~ What is your favourite vegetable you like to grow?
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