Bee-Friendly Garden Action Pack: Survey, Planner & Bee Hotel

A fact-checked bee-friendly garden action pack for ages 6–12: find out what bees need, survey and map your patch, plan flowers for every season, make a bee hotel and a bee patch, then count bees before and after.

What’s inside:

- Welcome page, contents and how to use it (plus stings basics from the NHS)

- What do bees need? (labelled garden scene)

- Bee garden survey with before-and-after scores

- Map your patch (grid and map key)

- Flower shapes & bee tongues, with a tongue-length scale and a straw experiment

- Planting planner (month-by-month chart with examples)

- Make a bee hotel (drilled block diagram and 6 steps)

- Ground nests & log piles (most bees nest underground)

- Before-and-after bee count with bar chart (a fair-test investigation)

- Our bee action plan

- Make a poster: Help Our Bees!

- Bee garden quiz (10 questions)

- Answer key

- Bee Garden Champion certificate

- Credits & licence page

Pages: 16 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both included as PDF.

Who it’s for: Ages 6–12 · families, schools, eco clubs and garden groups · KS1–KS2 science (living things and habitats, plants).

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Drilling and digging steps are marked as adult jobs. The survey scores are a simple REALLYBYTE system, not an official standard.

Every fact is checked against named sources (the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, USGS, the Xerces Society, FAO, the NHS, the IUCN, Wikipedia and others) and listed on the credits page. Images are public domain or CC0 (USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Natural Earth map data) or REALLYBYTE’s own artwork.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind bees.animals.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com