Materials
2 birthday gift bags, 10" or larger
6 stuffed or beanbag toy insects
2 sheets colored tissue paper
insect stickers
Instructions
* If you don't have small toy bees, make tiny, fluffy bees by drawing a stripe on
small yellow pompoms with a permanent black marker.
* Set out the flowers in the block of foam.
What to Do
1. Use a selection of tweezers and tongs of different sizes, as appropriate to
each child.
2. Tell the children that bees gather pollen from flowers.
3. Challenge the children to pick up bees with tweezers or tongs and transport
them to the middle of each flower.
4. Younger children can use their fingers instead of tweezers. The distance between
the bees and the flowers should vary according to the age of the children.
Teacher - to - Teacher Tip
* You could combine this with a color exercise by asking the child to put a bee
only on, say, a red or yellow flower.
Poem
Here Is a Beehive Traditional
Here is the beehive, where are the bees? One, two, three, four, five.
Hidden away where nobody sees. Buzz, buzz, buzz.
Watch and you will see them come out of their hives;
Assessment
Consider the following:
* Ask the children where the bees go to collect their food.
* Can the children manage to use the tweezers or tongs to pick up the bees?
* Do the children choose the correct color if asked?
