Materials
Pictures of bees and hives
For each child:
Blue
Brown or deep gold tissue paper strips, 1 1/2" x 6" (3.5 cm x 15cm)
One small plastic bathroom cup
Paintbrush
One chenille bee on a wire
Small black construction paper half circle, 1/2"wide (13 mm) What to do
- Visit a bee keeper, if possible, or invite one to come visit your class. After discussing bees, help the children to make a bee.
- Ask each child to place her cup upside down on the table and hold it down by putting her fingers on top.
- Let her use a brush to paint glue all over the sides of the cup. After she twists strips of tissue into ropes, she may wrap them around the cup to completely cover the sides.
- Now ask her to paint glue on top of the cup and cover it with more twisted tissue paper.
- Insert the bee's wire between the tissue strips.
- Glue the black half circle at the bottom edge of the cup to represent a door.
More to do
Art: Make a bee with a pantyhose container or large Easter egg. Color stripes on the pointed half of the egg. Glue paper wings on the rounded half. Add a face. You can insert a length of yarn before attaching the halves to hang or fly the bee. Use the bee with the poem.(below)
Cooking: Taste honey from a comb. Iat popcorn dipped in honey. Make peanut butter balls by combining 1 1/3 cups (325 ml) peanut butter, 2/3 cup (150 ml) hoeny and 1 cup (250 ml) milk powder. Roll into 1" (2.5 cm) balls, then eat! Original poem
I like bumblebee, bumblebee buzzing.
I like bumblebee, bumblebee bu-uz-zing.
BUZZZZ Deborah A. Chaplin, Hot Springs, VA | 
