Make a BEE-utiful Craft!

Hi readers,

It’s summer time! This bee-utiful craft is super easy and fun to make. Make a bunch to decorate your flower pots, windows, or walls, and make sure to ask a grown-up for help!

What you’ll need:

• Yellow, black, and red paper
• Two circle-shaped paper punches. (You can also use the bottoms of drinking glasses or bottles for tracing circles.)
• Small flower or heart-shaped punch. (You can also cut these out by hand if you don’t have the punch tool.)
• Black marker
• Craft sticks
• Glue
• Scissors

What to do:

1. Make the bee’s head and body by cutting two circles (one large, one small) with the yellow paper.
2. Glue the small circle (head) onto the large circle (body).
3. Cut a few thin strips of black paper.
4. Glue two to three black strips onto the bee’s body. Cut off any excess (but don’t throw the pieces away!).
5. Using a black marker, draw on the bee’s eyes and mouth.
6. Using the black paper scraps, glue them as antennas onto the back of the bee’s head.
7. Cut out flowers or heart-shaped pieces of red paper for a pop of color! Glue them on top of the bee’s antennas.
8. Cut out a small triangle of black paper to make the bee’s stinger. Glue it onto the back of the bee’s body.
9. Bonus: glue a popsicle stick onto the back of the bee to make a puppet or houseplant decoration!

Let us know in the comments how your honey bees turned out!

Bye for now,

-Elora, chirpblog@owlkids.com