This week has been our annual "Birds are Brilliant" week here at the lighthouse, and what a fantastic week it has been! Monday, Wednesday and Friday was birdbox building, Tuesday and Thursday was various bird crafts and finally Sunday is bird identification for beginners. This is the third year we've done our "Birds" week and it's proving to be one of our most popular weeks of the year, especially when it comes to building the birdboxes. What we do is over the winter period order a load of treated timber and cut the various pieces needed to make a birdbox and pre-drill them so that all the children have to do is screw the pieces together (with our help of course!). The kids absolutely love making the boxes, especially using the electric drills. Of course, we are the ones controlling the tools but we let them believe that they are doing it themselves. The first 2 years we averaged around 50 boxes per day, for 3 days, which meant we were making 150 boxes per week, a fantastic amount! This year we went even better, making around 180 in a week. It's incredibly good fun, and when the children are holding the finished boxes in their hands that they have made 'by themselves' the smiles on their faces are absolutely priceless. But not just that, it's fantastic news for birds, as there are now all those new boxes out there ready to be used. Almost 500 birdboxes in 3 years. Now that is something to be proud of!
Lots of timber cut ready to put together
Happy smiley faces!
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