🌸 Clay Cups for Bees – Polly Pollinator’s Summer Project 🐝🌸

Polly Pollinator has a simple but powerful mission for schools, families and communities this summer:
make clay cups for bees 💛

As warmer weather arrives, bees can struggle to find safe places to drink and rest. By creating small clay flower cups on a stalk, children and families can help provide shallow water or nectar cups for bees in gardens, school grounds, allotments and community spaces.

This hands-on project helps children to:

learn about pollinators and biodiversity

care for living things

take real Earth Stewardship action

combine creativity with sustainability 🌍🎨

🌼 Your Challenge

• Make a clay flower cup (air-dry or fired clay)Place it safely in your garden or school grounds

• Add fresh water (with stones for safe landing)

• Observe, care… and if you’re lucky, spot a bee 🐝

📸 Send us your photos!
We’d love to see your Clay Cups for Bees in situ – and with a bee visiting, even better!

📧 Email photos to: info@thesustainablesacademy.com
📅 Deadline: 1st September 2026

🏆 Prizes

• 🌟 Individual Winner – a special Polly Pollinator prize bundle celebrating creativity and Earth Stewardship

• 🏫 Winning School or Group – a sustainability learning prize to support your school garden, Eco or Green Team activities

Winning entries will be shared to celebrate how young people across the UK are protecting pollinators and caring for nature – one small clay cup at a time 💛

Let’s make our schools, homes and communities bee-friendly places to grow 🌸🐝