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Paper Plate Bumble Bee

7/28/2014

Supplies Needed; Paper Plate, yellow and black paint, wiggly eyes, black and red construction paper, white paper, black pipe cleaner, scissors, and glue

Directions;
Paint your paper plate yellow and allow it to dry. Once dry, cut your plate in half. Paint black stripes on your bee's body. Using your black construction paper, cut out a circle shape. Use your red paper to cut out a crescent shape for your mouth and white paper will be your wings. Twist your pipe cleaner into two arches, this will be your antennae. Glue on all pieces, and allow to dry.

Bee Math

10/31/2013

This is a good project for teaching kids numbers and number order. Create your bee from construction paper and cut out numbers. Have the children identify what the number is and what order it goes in.

Bumble Bee Wrist Band

10/31/2013

Provide children with a strip of yellow construction paper that will fit around their wrists. Encourage them to draw black lines and a face on their strip of yellow paper. Then provide glue, googly eyes, and a piece of wax paper in the shape of wings for the children to complete their bumble bee. Help the children to tape the two ends of the piece of yellow paper together to create a band for them to put on their wrists.

Bee Snack

10/31/2013

Use pineapple, apple, blueberries, and chocolate chips to create a bee snack.

Toilet Paper Roll Bee

10/31/2013

What you need: Toilet paper roll, construction paper, and glue.

Assist older children in cutting out the shapes and help younger children assemble the shapes to make their bee's.

Recycled Bumble Bee

10/31/2013

This is a good recycled art project for kids. Use an old egg carton and pipe cleaners to create a bumble bee.

Bee Foot Sensory Play

10/31/2013

This is a fun sensory activity for kids. Paint the children's feet and have them step on a white piece of paper. When the paint is dry have them draw wings, antennae, and mouth. Add googly eyes to create their bee's.

Bee File Folder Game

10/31/2013

Children are busy buzzing around the room like busy bees. “Bb” is the letter of the day.

Here is a fun file folder game you can make for bees and the letter “Bb.”

The letter “b” file folder game. (Literacy)

Read the book: Buzzy the Bumblebee by Denise Brennan-Nelson &Michael Glenn Monroe

“b” is for Bee File Folder Game

Materials needed: file folder, pairs of different types of bees (5 – 7), pictures of other insects with different first letters to fill in such as caterpillar or ant. (You can use stickers but photos are better), contact paper or laminating sheets.)

Decorate the front cover and tab with bee stickers. Title it “b” is for Bee.
Open the file and glue the bees and insects on the left hand side of the file. Using contact paper or laminate cover the page. This will keep the children from pealing them off.
On the right hand side of the file attach a small zip log bag so the open side faces right. (By doing this the pieces won’t fall out when you store the file.) Make sure that the open end isn’t too tight, so it is easy for children to take out the pieces.

Take the bees you have cut out (or stickers) glue them to index cards and cut out. Apply contact paper or laminate on the top and bottom of each bee to make them sturdy.

How you play the game: Children can work alone, in pairs, or teacher directed. Remove the bee pieces from the bag. Sound out bee, “b” and have the children find the bees saying the first sound as they place a bee on the bee.
Matching game. This can also be used as a matching game if you make pieces for all of the insects.

When children place incorrectly (because they just might like ants) do not correct them. Help them to sound out the first sound of the incorrect answer and compare it to the correct answer “b” bee.

If you are going to use this at a learning center put up pictures of bees or maybe a placemat with pictures of bees, a hive, or honey.

Writing a Bee Story and Puppet

10/30/2013

Little bees are busy gathering honey and at the end of the day they have a story to tell. Here is an activity that allows children to use their imaginations to write a Bee story.

Read: The Life and Times of the Honeybee by Charles Micucci

Finger play: Sitting on a Flower with Bee puppets by Debbie Hasbrook M.Ed.

Writing a Bee story (Literacy)

Materials Needed: blank paper any color, crayons, markers or paint, cut-out bees to start the story, cut out bees on tongue depressors or pipe cleaners to make puppets.

While you are reading the story give each child a bee puppet. Let them use them to sing the song. Save them for another day, or let the children take them home.

Tell the children that you have a bee just for them, and this bee will help them write a story. Ask them, “What will your bee do today?” “Let’s write a story.”

Let the children glue a bee anywhere on their paper. Have the children draw their bee story. If children can write let them write their own story. If not, write their story as they dictate it to you.

Display pictures of a bee, hive, and flower with a bee on it. Label each one in case the children would like to try and write the words.

Display the stories in a public space for everyone to enjoy.

Collecting Pollen

10/30/2013

Summer days are filled with laughing children and the buzzing of insects.

Children are fascinated by all insects, especially Bees!

Below are some examples of activities you can do if your topic is bees.

Collecting Pollen (Science, literacy, art)

Read: Seeds, Bees, and Pollen by Julie K. Lundgren and Kristi Lew

Finger play: One Little Bee Sitting on a Flower, by Debbie Hasbrook M.Ed.

You can use this song with felt board bees, little toy bees, puppets, or fingers to add bees to the flower.

This song can be played as a game during circle time. To play the game have the children sit in a circle. One child starts in the middle. That child picks the next bee to sit on the flower. Make sure all the children have a chance to play.

This is a great song for transitions, for instance lining up to go outside or washing hands.

Materials Needed:
Q-tips, small bowls, brown construction paper, and large flowers from an outside garden, 3X5 cards, pen, dry yellow poster paint, bees and flower stickers.

Place the flowers on a low table in a sturdy vase
In two small containers place several Q-tips. Show the children how to collect the pollen the way bees do. To see the pollen have the children wipe the Q-tip on the inside of flower and then on the blue construction paper. (If there is not enough pollen, dust the inside of the flowers dry yellow poster paint.)

Using 3 x 5 cards and write down what the children say about their experience. Post the comments and pictures for parents to see. Post pictures of children collecting the bee pollen for an added touch.

You can then use these to make a picture by adding bee and flower stickers.

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