Make a booklet with paints or colored pencil drawings of these different butterflies. What does each species need for their young to grow from larva to butterflies? Plant those plants also. How long does this take? What happens to these butterflies over the winter?

What role do earthworms play in the garden? Can you start a worm farm? How could your club profit from earthworms?

How can bees help your garden? Find out how a bee colony is set up. What type of nests do different types of bees make? Keep bees for a honey project with good adult supervision.

Clean up an area in your community. Let others know via the local newspaper that you are working on this.

Involve your group in a ¡°Beach Sweep¡± clean up¡­.look at www.dnr.sc.gov for more information in your area.

Work together with another group to clean up a park, a picnic area, a certain place downtown or the local ballfield.

Have a speaker from a wild bird shop to tell about feeding or housing birds.

Make dried gourd bird houses. Use large gourds with curved top. Make round hole to inside of gourd (for bird entrance). Clean out inside flesh with long handled spoons and dry in the sun. Drill small hole, insert wire for hanging. Outside can be painted, brushed/sprayed with clear protective finish, dried , then hung.

Checkout these websites: www.wildbirds.com and www.birdwatchers.com for some other great ideas.

Make a pinecone feeder for wintertime feeding. Take large pinecone, loop bright colored ribbon around top for hanging. Using butter knife, spread peanut butter into all areas of pinecone. Roll into bird seed, hang and watch which birds come to visit!

How many different types of birds can you spot in your garden? Make a booklet and draw/paint them.

What are their habits? What do they like to eat?

Learn about colors and heights in a design. What are opposites on a color wheel?

Make different types of designs. What is a water design? How does it differ from traditional design?

Can you make a Holiday design using pine or boxwood?

Have a speaker come to your meeting from a favorite nursery or floral shop.

What do different herbs do? (ie. Lavender relaxes)

Read books from the library about herbal bath additives.

Make clear soaps with herbal additivies.

Grow and dry your own herbs.

Make lavender pillow sachets for a Sr. Center or nursing home. Explain the benefits.

Make bar soaps for sale at a club Holiday sale or as gifts for a Sr. Center or nursing home.

Can you find recipes for lotions, creams & even lipgloss from herbs and natural ingredients?

Make a chart for display at a Sr. Center about different aromatherapy ideas.

Find out where lanolin & beeswax come from. They are common ingredients in most cosmetic items.

What does conservation mean? How can we use conservation in our daily lives?

Ask someone from the Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) to speak at your meeting.

Make posters to inform the public how they can practice/help with conservation.

Display posters at the library, school or retail stores.

These are just a few ideas that can help prompt an idea for a community or club project. Your local library, local DNR, Garden Club members and the SC Wildlife Federation as well as lots of subjects you can ¡°google¡± on the internet¡­..they can all be of invaluable service to you.

If you need further assistance, information or ideas, Please contact me ¨C I will be happy to help!

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