Want to see more birds, butterflies and wild creatures in your garden? If you love everything that nature has to offer including the wildlife, make some of these inviting feeders and habitats that are sure to help attract nature’s wildlife into your garden. This will be a great activity for kids to help with, too!





1. Homemade Butterfly Feeder

Butterflies help flowers grow by pollinating them. By creating this easy butterfly feeder you’ll be encouraging them to visit your garden more often. (Tutorial: eHow.com)

2. Bug Hotel

Build a bug hotel to encourage insect friends to come and stay for a while during the Winter season! (Tutorial: Garden Therapy)

3. Bee Box

Attract bees to the garden by making them a “bee box” out of bundles of bamboo, nesting blocks or cardboard or paper tubes. (More details: Jenkintown Homegrown)

4. Bug Box

Make a bug box to provide the perfect habitat for ladybirds, spiders, lacewings and solitary bees. (Tutorial: Gardeners’ World)

5. Worm Hotel

For most kids slimy worms are fascinating. So why not to make this simple “worm hotel” to see how they work? (Tutorial: Education.com)

6. Attract Hummingbirds

Encourage these beautiful birds to make your garden home, by creating a gorgeous Hummingbird feeder! (Tutorial: Birds and Blooms)

7. Bat House

Why should you build a house to attract bats to your garden? because small bat can swallow up to 1 000 mosquitoes in one hour! (Tutorial: Benscheele)

8. Attract Frogs To Your Garden

If you enjoy watching bouncing frogs and listen to their songs, make a pond to attract them to your garden. Frogs are great insect killers, too!

9. Hedgehog House

Build a cosy hedgehog home, and encourage these prickly yet adorable creatures to rest, hibernate and raise their hoglets in your garden. (Tutorial: Gardeners’ World)

10. Stylish Bug Hotel

Simply drill a few holes in a solid slice of wood and you have a house for solitary bees. (Via: Sunset)