Bat Boxes and Butterflies
On Sunday we went to Wicken Fen because we were trying to think of a good place to go just for the afternoon (after church) that would be OKish in the heat and interesting. They had activities on this weekend so there was a bit extra to do - oh, and making the most of our National Trust membership before it expires at the end of Aug.
It was sweltering and very heavy and we were all finding the thunderbugs hard going - L’s hair was completely crawling with them, yuck!
M wanted to make a bat box so we did that first. All the pieces were precut and he just had to hammer it all together. Now we need to find a tall suitable tree to put it up on somewhere.
We started off to walk around the fen but it came over stormy and began raining, so we back tracked and went to do some T shirt screen printing instead. M and A did T shirts and I helped and watched what L was getting up to. The outside of the T shirt design was already on the screen but they had to design a creature to go into the middle section, so M made a butterfly and A did a dragonfly and cut them out. This is M’s first attempt at printing - the ink had bled through the writing at the top and he was disappointed with it so the lady let him do it again!
Then we went to get drinks, waited for the rain to finish and went for a walk around the fen. We spent ages spotting butterflies and trying to get photos of them.
