Category: Craft

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.

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Bumble Bee Wrist Band

10/31/2013

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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.

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Toilet Paper Roll Bee

10/31/2013

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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.

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Writing a Bee Story and Puppet

10/30/2013

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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.

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My Bee Book

10/30/2013

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Bees, Bees, Bees!

Looking for a great writing activity on the topic of bees?

Make a book all about bees!

The Bee book will be a big hit.

My Bee Book (Science, literacy, art)

Read: Are You a Bee? By Judy Allen
Read this book every day until the children complete their books.

Finger play: I Can Buzz Like a Bee, by Debbie Hasbrook M.Ed.

Materials Needed: Bee cover, 5 sheets of blank paper, back cover, cotton balls, paint: black & yellow, wax paper for wings, wiggly eyes, stapler to attach pages.

Have the children decorate the bee by painting (dabbing) the cover with cotton balls and black and yellow paint. Attach wiggly eyes, and make wings out of wax paper.

Write the title for each page at the top. Each page will be a picture drawn by the children about a bee fact. (One picture each day)
Record comments made by the children at the bottom of their picture. If the children can write, let them do the writing themselves.

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Paper Plate Bumble Bee

Bumble Bee Wrist Band

Toilet Paper Roll Bee

Writing a Bee Story and Puppet

My Bee Book

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