A Lovely Bee Craft

Today’s post is by a lovely friend of mine, Helen; we have been friends since before we both started blogging; in fact, I first met Helen online before I was pregnant with Emmy, meeting via an online chat forum.

Although Helen and I have yet to actually meet in person, the power of online friendships is often stronger than those you have known in real life for years. I love Helen’s blog, and I do urge you to go and take a look as you will find wonderful kiddie-friendly arts and crafts which are fun for children and educational too – you can find Helen and Peakles (her daughter’s nickname) blogging over at Witty Hoots.

Hello! I’m Helen, and this is Peakles, my three-year-old daughter. Peakles and I have been crafting, learning, playing and writing about it on our blog called Witty Hoots.

We love to make things. We love to play with things and best of all we love to make things to play with!

Over the past year we have made lots of colourful pictures, grown things in our garden and been out and about on so many different adventures. Peakles is very proud of what we do and will tell everybody she can that she is Peakle Pie (My blog was formerly named Peakle Pie after my daughter, just to make this reference clear)

I try to maintain that ‘hands on’ feel with our site and Peakles is involved with every craft and activity featured. We have been
following Emmy’s Mummy for many years now (before Harry!) and I love the mix of reviews, crafts and things to do with babies and toddlers!

We are thrilled to be featured here and look forward to sharing some of our bee crafts with you today!

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How to make a lovely Bee Craft:

We have been busy making our garden bee-friendly in anticipation of our bee colony returning this year. Peakle Pie has been involved recently in promoting why bees are important for the garden and how much they are involved in creating the foodstuffs that we all eat!

Peakles wanted to decorate the garden with some bee pictures to try and encourage them back!

Here is a lovely simple bee craft that can also help develop fine motor skills, and basic counting and, above all, is fun and easy for the under 5’s to make!

For this wonderful bee craft we used:

Pink and brown ribbon
A glue stick
Some sticky-backed gems or stick on/wobbly eyes
Black card and yellow card
Some thread for hanging up
Scissors

Peakles used some children’s scissors to cut the ribbon and the card –i deal for those fine motor skills – but if you have a younger child or no appropriate scissors then feel free to cut the card and ribbons or them.

How to make:

Peakles cut out a large circle from a sheet of yellow card. She then cut out some lengths of brown ribbon after measuring them against the yellow circle so that
she could cut them to the right length. Peakles glued the brown ribbons onto the circle to make a lovely stripy body for the bee.

We had talked about how their eyes were different to our eyes, so Peakles did not want to use wobbly eyes for this craft. She decided to use some sparkly gems instead, which I think is a great idea!

Bees have six legs, and Peakles enjoyed cutting out and counting out six legs, which she stuck onto the bee’s body. Finally, she added the wings, which were two loops of pink ribbon, to the top of the bee!

I sewed a thread onto the wings and we hung the bee up outside in the sunshine! We now wait to see if the young queen bee from last year will return to our roof for another year!

If you enjoyed this bee activity and you want to find out more about how to look after your garden bees or for more bee activities, then please visit The Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

We have written about our bees and some other bee-focused activities which can be found here: