Let kids make their own bumblebee with this simple craft idea. Give each child an empty and clean toilet paper roll. Help the children paint black and yellow stripes on the roll. Be sure the last stripe on one of the ends is yellow, so you can draw the face with a black marker. Allow the paint to dry and draw two eyes and a mouth with a black marker on the end yellow stripe. Cut several triangles out of black construction paper and give one to each child. Tell them to glue the "stinger" on the end opposite the bee's face. Cut two "wings" out of wax paper and give two to each child. Fold the wings in half to keep them from flopping down when you glue them to the toilet paper roll. Tell the children to glue the wings to the top of the toilet paper roll.
Play this game with a group of preschoolers. Purchase a plush bumblebee toy and have all the children sit in a circle. Hand one child the toy bumblebee and play music while the children pass it around the circle. When the music stops, the child holding the bumblebee is out of the game. The last player in the circle wins the plush bumblebee as a prize.
Help your preschoolers make a bumblebee bookmark using wood craft sticks, black and yellow markers, glue, black pipe cleaners, yellow pompoms, googly eyes and scissors. Tell the children to paint yellow and black stripes on the wood craft stick. They can glue the yellow pompom to one end of the stick and glue the googly eyes to the pompom. Cut several small pieces of black pipe cleaners and tell the students to make antennas for the bumblebee. Tell them to glue the antennas to the bee's head. For added decoration, cut a small triangle from black construction paper and give one to each child to glue under the bee's eyes to resemble the stinger.
Draw or print pictures of several flower heads and place them on the floor. Put out one less flower head than you have children. Tell the children to buzz around the flowers until you say "Stop." When you say stop, the children have to find a flower head and stand on it. The child not standing on a flower head is out of the game. Remove a flower head and keep playing. The last player standing on a flower head wins the game.