For this craft you will need a wooden craft stick, black pipe cleaners, a yellow pompom ball, googly eyes, and black and yellow acrylic paint. Instruct the child to paint the wooden craft stick in alternating black and yellow stripes. When the stick is dry, help the child use craft glue to attach the pompom to the top of the stick, forming the bee's body. Glue on the black pipe cleaners to the back of the pompom and curl them to create antenna. Finish by gluing on the googly eyes.
Fingerprint bees can be made by children of all ages, and the results look great on stationery or flowerpots. You need yellow, gray and black non-toxic finger paints. First, press your thumb in yellow paint and press it to the paper to form the bee's body. Dip the tip of your pinkie finger in black paint and use it to create the bee's head, dotting the excess along the bee's body to form the stripes. To make the wings, press your thumb into gray paint and press it on scrap paper a few times to remove most of the paint before stamping it twice along the top of the body. This will give you a side view of the bee, with its two wings at the top of its body in mid-flight.
Beehives are a fun craft for teaching children about animal habitats. You will need aluminum foil, brown tissue paper, black and yellow construction paper, and craft glue. To begin, scrunch the aluminum foil into a beehive shape and glue the brown tissue paper over the aluminum foil, covering it completely. Once the hive is dry, cut out bee shapes from the construction paper and glue them around the surface of the hive.
This craft creates a happy-looking bee that looks great hanging on the wall. You need black and yellow paper plates, black electrical tape, black pipe cleaners, scissors, glue and a permanent marker. Cut the black paper plate in half, and glue both halves to the back of the yellow paper plate to form the bee's wings. Angle the bottoms of these wings out from the body slightly. Use the electrical tape to create horizontal stripes on the yellow plate, leaving about the top 1/3 blank so you can draw the bee's face. Glue on black pipe cleaners to form the antennae on the top and a stinger at the bottom. Finish the bee by drawing on a happy face.