World Bee Day, which is celebrated on May 20th is the perfect opportunity to teach little ones about the importance of bees and inspire a love for nature through creativity and play. Bees are not only fascinating creatures, they play a vital role in our ecosystems and food supply.
To help you celebrate, we’ve rounded up 7 bee-autiful activities for kids that are fun, educational, and hands-on.
Explore the fascinating journey from egg to adult bee with our Kids Bee Lifecycles Digital Learning Pack, a fun and educational resource perfect for curious little learners! Designed to support early science and literacy skills, this printable pack includes activities such as:
- Learning about the Life Cycle of a Honey Bee (fun creative printable teaching children the lifecycle of a bee with colouring, cutting and forming a fun pull out bee hive)
- Parts of a Bee (Children can colour in the bee and cut and paste the labels of the bee anatomy into the correct sections)
- Bee Lifecycle Booklet (Children will create a mini book, cutting and colouring in that will help them learn bee vocabulary)
- Count the Bee Graph (problem solving, concentration, using maths skills to look at differences and similarities)
- Bee Puzzle (use problem solving and coding to make up the missing message in the hexagon puzzle)
Check it out
HERE
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Recycle those cardboard rolls into cute bees! After a fun and easy DIY which your little on can create with left over My Creative Box Goodies or supplies you may have at home?
A toilet roll bee is a super simple, yet fun activity which is easy to customise. All you need is:
- A toilet paper roll
- Yellow and black paint or paper strips
- Googly eyes
- Pipe cleaner, craft sticks or paper antennae
- Wings cut from paper or cupcake liners
- a Marker
image via: Easy Peasy and Fun
Unleash your child’s imagination and celebrate the magic of bees with a My Creative Box Collage Box! This hands-on craft experience encourages kids to explore texture, colour, and creativity as they build their very own bee masterpiece using a mix of sensory materials like foam, paper shapes, stickers and more. It’s the perfect open-ended activity for little learners to develop fine motor skills and self-expression while learning about these amazing pollinators.
There are so many cute ideas to 'bee' made with the collage boxes.
Check out the cute Bee @little.outback.learners made Here with Paper Materials & Stickers
And check out the Cupcake Case Bees made Here by @our.tiny.moments
4. Pollination Play Tray or Pollination Game
Create your very own Bee Hive by using an egg carton. Simply cut the sections out, and then hot glue them together in a 2, 3, 4 & 3 formation to create your hive!
You can make this a Sensory Play Tray like the wonderful @my.two.sonshines has made HERE using a sensory base from The Sensory Way
OR
You can also make this into a Pollination Game seen HERE by Nicole @ Modern Preschool
5. Fine Motor DIY Bee
Pegs are fun tools for helping develop fine motor skills in children. Activities like pegging items on a clothesline, clipping the pegs onto different items, or using pegs to answer questions can all help strengthen finger and hand muscles. These activities also benefit hand-eye coordination and can be adapted for different age groups and abilities.
@our_little_farmer
has made these activities even more fun by making DIY Peg Bees. See her instructions
HERE.
Great Fun to make and even more fun to use. The pair wonderfully with a Bee inspired story.
Have a Buzzzzzing World Bee Day
With love from My Creative Box
