[Upbeat music plays]

Text reads, “TVOkids” and “Riverbank Pictures” “Original.”

[Child giggles]

Text reads, “TVO Presents.”

[Happy music plays]

Mandisa wears her long black hair pulled away from her face. She smiles as she holds up a cardboard monster and an upside down drinking cup rabbit. Text above her reads, “Curious Crafting.”

[Boing]

[Upbeat music plays]

Mandisa sits at a white round table. To her right sits a girl wearing brown overalls and a brown and white blouse. The girl wears her long brown hair pulled back from her face. To her left sits a boy with dark brown hair loose to just above his shoulders. He wears a long-sleeved blue sweater.

Mandisa asks, HAVE EITHER OF YOU
EVER STAYED IN A HOTEL OR MOTEL?

The children say, YES.

Mandisa asks, HAVE YOU EVER
STAYED AT A BUG HOTEL?

The boy says, NO.

The girl asks, WHAT'S THAT?

Mandisa says, IT'S A HOTEL
FOR YOUR BUG FRIENDS.

Mandisa puts a cardboard box with a sign that reads, “Bug Hotel” on the table. Cardboard and leaves fill the box. An animated red and black ladybug flies into the box.

[Buzzing]

Mandisa asks, DO YOU WANNA MAKE ONE?

The girl says, YES.

Mandisa says, OKAY, LET'S GET BUILDING.

[Energetic happy music plays]

The two crafters follow Mandisa. The children gather supplies. As Mandisa lists the supplies, they appear on a table.

Mandisa narrates, YOU'RE GOING TO NEED
A MILK CARTON AND PINE CONES,
CARDBOARD TUBES AND SCRAP PAPER,
MOSS AND DRIED GRASS, DRIED LEAVES,
TWIGS AND ROCKS, PAINT AND
PAINTBRUSHES AND DOT STICKERS.

An animated paintbrush moves. The two children sit at a rectangular table. Mandisa sits between them.

[Brush scratches]

Mandisa says, LET'S GET STARTED
IN THE PAINT ZONE.

The children cheer, YEAH.

Mandisa says, TO MAKE OUR BUG HOTELS,
WE'RE GONNA USE A MILK CARTON
AND I CUT OUT THE VERY FRONT
OF THE CARTON FOR YOU ALREADY,
SO YOU'RE GONNA PAINT
YOUR MILK CARTON RED
USING A FOAM BRUSH.

START PAINTING.

The children paint their milk cartons red.

[Happy music plays]

Mandisa says, EMERSON?

Emerson, the boy, says, YEAH?

Mandisa asks, WHAT DOES THE COLOR
RED REMIND YOU OF?

Emerson says, LADYBUGS.

Mandisa asks, SHOULD WE MAKE
OUR BUG HOTELS LOOK LIKE LADYBUGS?

Emerson and the girl say, YEAH.

Mandisa says, OKAY.

Emerson and the girl continue painting the cartons red.

[Happy music continues]

Animated scissors cut green paper.

[Scissors snip]

Mandisa says, OKAY, OUR MILK CARTONS
ARE DRY.

WHAT DO WE NEED TO TURN
THEM INTO LADYBUGS?

Mandisa points to black dots on her bug hotel.

The girl and Emerson say, BLACK DOT STICKERS.

Mandisa says, AND I HAVE
SOME HERE FOR YOU.

SO GRAB TWO STRIPS
AND STICK THE DOTS
ALL OVER YOUR BUG HOTEL.

(LIGHT MUSIC)

Mandisa says, OKAY, LET'S START
FILLING UP OUR HOTEL WITH ROOMS.

WE'RE GOING TO USE
CARDBOARD TUBES.

Emerson and the girl put the black dot stickers on the outside of the bug hotel.

[Happy music continues]

Mandisa says, I HAVE SOME THINGS
THAT I COLLECTED IN NATURE
THAT WE CAN ADD TO OUR
BUG HOTEL.

PINE CONES, STICKS,
ROCKS, SOME DRIED GRASS,
SOME COLORFUL MOSS
AND SOME LEAVES
AND NOW YOU CAN FILL
UP YOUR BUG HOTEL
WITH WHATEVER YOU THINK
YOUR INSECTS WOULD LIKE.

SO YOU CAN ADD THE
LEAVES INTO THE TUBES.

YOU CAN ADD SOME THINGS ALL
AROUND YOUR TUBES, AS WELL.

WHAT DOES THAT MOSS FEEL LIKE?

The girl replies, SQUISHY.

The girl stuffs leaves into a tube.

Mandisa says, YOU CAN ADD
A WHOLE BUNCH OF STICKS.
FILL IT UP WITH STICKS.

[Crunching]

The girl says, MORE PRETTY.

Mandisa softly says, ALRIGHT.

Mandisa says, I ALSO HAVE SOME
SCRAP PAPER HERE.

WE CAN TURN THEM INTO TUBES
AND MAYBE BEES WILL STAY IN
OUR BUG HOTELS.

Olivia, the girl, says, OH YEAH.

Mandisa says, HERE'S A PAPER TUBE.
OLIVIA, YOU CAN FILL ONE OF YOUR
CARDBOARD TUBES WITH THESE.

Olivia and Emerson stuff the tubes in their hotels.

[Happy music continues]

Olivia asks, CAN I SEE YOURS?

Emerson says, SURE.

He turns his hotel towards Olivia.

Olivia says, IT'S VERY, VERY PRETTY.

Mandisa says, THESE BUG HOTELS
ARE LOOKING AMAZING,
BUT THEY'RE MISSING ONE THING.

Olivia says, THE SIGN.

Mandisa says, THAT'S RIGHT.
I HAVE TWO SIGNS THAT I
MADE OUT OF CARDBOARD.

USE SOME TAPE AND STICK THEM
TO THE TOP OF OUR HOTELS.

Olivia and Emerson stick the sign to the top of their hotels.

Mandisa says, GOOD.
OKAY, I THINK WE NEED SOME
BUGS TO MOVE INTO OUR HOTEL.

Mandisa pours a bowl of plastic and fabric bugs onto the table. Emerson and Oliva add the bugs to their hotels.

Mandisa asks, WHAT'S LIVING
IN YOUR HOTEL, OLIVIA?

Olivia says, BUTTERFLIES,
DRAGONFLIES, FLIES AND CENTIPEDES.

Mandisa smiles. She watches Emerson and Olivia put the bugs into their hotels.

Mandisa asks, WHERE'S
THE FLY GONNA LIVE?

Emerson says, HE'S AT THE PARK
BESIDE THE PINE CONE.

[Upbeat music plays]

End credits roll.

“The host: Mandisa Watts.
The crafters: Emerson and Olivia.

Directed by: Chloe Gray.
Produced by: Francis Mitchell. David Mitchell.
Written by: Johnny Mitchell. Mandisa Watts.
Co-Producer: Mandisa Watts.

Produced in association with TVOkids.

Executive producers, TVO: Natasha Negrea, Kirsten Hurd.
Production executive, TVO: Caroline Voitovici.

Logo: Riverbank Pictures.”