| ๐ ๐จ ๐ CRAFTY KIDS A Gorgeously Realistic Craft Project Such a realistic cute little hedgehog made from mostly cardboard #fridaycraftmorning #craftykids |
Hello everyone, how are you all? Well, I hope. This week is dedicated to hedgehogs, they are just starting to emerge from their Winter hibernation and need all the help they can get. Take a look at the following video on ways you can help them. |
Next week is Hedgehog Awareness Week 2021. The initiative was set up by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) as an annual event, and is a whole week dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness of hedgehogs, so keep an eye on BHPS social media pages for competitions, tips, pictures and videos. You can get also get involved by sharing photos and stories with #HedgehogWeek. You can find out more about Hedgehog Street and become a champion for hedgehogs at www.hedgehogstreet.org
Here are some tips to help keep other wildlife and domesticated animals away from food you put out for hedgehogs https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/cat-proof-hedgehog-food/
If you have a handyman or woman in the house, a video showing you how to build a hedgehog house will be out on Wednesday this week and you can check them out on our website at https://www.pricklyhedge.com/right-sidebar/ or on our Facebook page /pricklyhedge.
On Friday, we have a gorgeous craft item for #fridaycraftmorning to make a gorgeous hedgehog, itโs the most realistically looking one Iโve seen in a long time.
Again, you can check that out on the Facebook page on Friday.
In the UK, we may be a step nearer to being out of lockdown on May 17th, so thatโs something to look forward to. In the meantime, I hope youโll be able to get out and about and see if you see any of the gorgeous woods that will be chock full of bluebells this month.
Don’t forget that on our website, youโll also find a round-up of environmental news on our How Toโs page, https://www.pricklyhedge.com/right-sidebar/
๏ปฟ As ever, if you make anything, drop a picture on the Facebook page, we’d love to see them.
I hope you have a great week and until next time, stay safe, stay well and donโt forget to let us know if you make any of our craft items.
Lots of love from Yvonne, Bubble and #TEAMPricklyHedge
| ๐๐ฆ๐ NATURE KIDS 5 Fun Facts About Hedgehogs |
๐๐๐ NEWS – HOW Many Spines Do Hedgehogs Have???
I canโt believe itโs the third month already. Itโs starting to feel like Spring, March 1st is always a sort of watershed for me, I feel energised and upbeat, the dark months of Winter are drawing to an end and with it a lot of our animals will be coming out of hibernation, especially bats, dormice and hedgehogs. More on hedgehogs later, but I love to try and promote how we can all recycle more and this week, we have a great video giving you ideas for 20 projects you can get your teeth into for recycling.
Thereโs some really great ideas in the video, I especially like some of the gift bags and clever use of newspapers and those tea light holders are something else. I bet they smell gorgeous. Have a watch and you try anything snap a picture and share it with us on our Facebook page
Now back to those hedgehogs, hopefully, if theyโve survived the Winter, they should be making an appearance around now. They are in such small numbers in this country now, we need to look after as much as we can. Here are 5 super cool facts about hedgehogs. So HOW many spines do hedgehogs have??
Of course, the humble daffodil will be starting to make its presence known in our gardens and waysides this month. They are one of my favourite flowers, I absolutely adore all Spring flowers, especially hyacinths, but daffodils never fail to cheer me up. Just a small bunch of them in the house lifts my spirits immensely.
So, on our recycling theme, our craft video this week is all about making daffodils from egg cartons. Motherโs Day Card??? Perhaps?
You can catch that video on Friday this week on the website and also on our Facebook page. We should have quite a few here at Prickly Hedge, theyโve already started to push up from the ground giving us that much-needed promise of Spring. #fridaycraftmorning
Don’t forget that on our website, youโll also find a round up of environmental news on our How Toโs page, https://www.pricklyhedge.com/right-sidebar/
I hope you have a great week and until next time, stay safe, stay well and keep recycling and helping to keep our planet healthy.
Lots of love from Yvonne, Bubble and #TEAMPricklyHedge
๐๐๐ NEWS – BREAKING NEWS – Slugs have GREEN blood!
Hello there everyone from a sunny, but cold Prickly Hedge! Remember last week, when I said there were signs of Spring? Hmm, well I was wrong. Iโve felt like I was living in a deep freeze this week and Iโve most definitely frequented by fleecy pjโs this week. Iโve spent most of the week in my polar fleece ones. I donโt sleep in them, just wear them during the day to keep warm! So inside itโs been toasty and warm and I havenโt ventured out at all.
Nature still has a habit of making its presence known though and along with the lovely robins, we should start seeing more of the blackbirds and blue tits. The blue tits are the cutest little birds, they feed on the cotoneaster berries under our lounge window โ conversely โ the blackbirds gorge themselves on the berries, but they have been noticeable by their absence this year, sadly.
One for the boys now, or maybe the tomboy girls; they were something Iโve never really taken to but, hey, each to their own. Snails! The bane of gardenerโs lives. Want to know more about them? Slugs and snails are from two different families, even though they belong to the same Phylum (Mollusca) and Class (Gastropoda).
โSlugs and snails are very important. They provide food for all sorts of mammals, birds, slow worms, earthworms, insects and they are part of the natural balance. Upset that balance by removing them and we can do a lot of harm. Thrushes in particular thrive on them!
Here are some of the weird and wonderful reasons we love slugs and snails.โ
Check out the article here https://www.bbcwildlife.org.uk/gardeners-guide-slugs-snails – Iโll let you into a little secret โ slug blood is green! It is! Wow, I didnโt know that. I think you might change your mind about slugs and snails after reading this, I know I did. We NEED slugs and snails, they provide food for our endangered hedgehogs. We start killing one thing in the chain and others suffer. Like the beautiful mistle thrushes from last week, they thrive on them too. This is why we have to be sooo careful with what we use for pest control in our gardens.
Thereโll also be a video later in the week all about slugs and snails, hereโs your advance link for that
And a little Snail song for a bit of light relief. Those eyes, they’re just TOOO cute!
And on Friday 19th, thereโll be a craft video on how to make your very own paper snail โ all youโll need is a piece of green paper and a piece of coloured paper, orange, blue, red, whatever colour you decide you want your snail to be. So get those ready for Friday Craft Morning along with some scissors and glue and get crafting with your little ones. You’ll need:
- 1 pc Green A4 Paper
- 1 pc Coloured A4 Paper
- Coloured pencils
- Scissors
- Glue/Pritt Stick
#fridaycraftmorning
What to look out for this week?
Keep an eye out for house sparrows โ if you see them congregate, perhaps you have a bird table or you put some birdseed out for them, write down the number of sparrows you see this week. Let us know in the comments. They have been in decline in the UK recently, but weโve seen a few more around this last year (and no, not because weโve had more time in lockdown โ lol).
Anyway, have a great week. Stay safe, stay well, stay home if you can and weโll see you next week.