As part of our Messy Church session we built a pond (no major digging involved).
Helen had previously collected water and plants from a neighbour’s pond and established there were some tadpoles in amongst the pond weed. So it was all carefully transported back to the church.
To save on digging and to create a permanent feature we chose to use two old washing up bowls and lined them with offcuts from a pond liner. We followed guidelines from the Wildlife National Trust on how to build your own pond.
The children from Messy Church had great fun – putting sand as a base, filling the pond with stones, making it different depths, adding a slope and adding a stick, in case any bugs needed to get out. They also added stones at the sides to hide the washing up bowls. By doing all of this, a lovely reptile habitat was created. The pond weed and water were then carefully added.
We are looking forward to seeing what creatures will be attracted.