Teachers can cover their bulletin board with sky blue paper. They make white clouds in the "sky," using cotton balls, white paper or paint. Create a beehive to cover a majority of the board. Cut Styrofoam balls in half and spray paint them yellow for the bees' bodies. Use masking tape to mark off stripes on the bodies, paint the Styrofoam black, remove the tape and you have yellow and black stripes. Using a glue gun, add googly eyes, black pipe cleaner for antennae and legs, and yellow construction paper for wings. Mount the bees randomly on the board, adding students' names under each one. On the beehive, cut out letters to say, "Mrs. _____'s Busy Bees!" The board can remain on the wall all year.
Cover the bulletin board with sky blue butcher paper. Teachers can make stems out of green construction paper. Then create flowers from your students' handprints in different spring paint colors. Help students create thumbprint bumblebee bodies in yellow paint, circling the flowerbed. Use black markers to create stripes and antennae on the bumblebees. Teachers can cut out paper letters to read, "Buzzin' Around in Room ___."
Teachers often extend their bulletin boards onto their classroom doors. Cover the door with black butcher paper. Cut out letters to say, "Buzz On In To Room ____." Make one bumblebee for each child in the class. Yellow construction paper bodies with black stripes are created with black pipe cleaner antennae and stingers. Attach the bees to the door to greet students as they come in.
Help make preschool students feel happy and accepted in your classroom with a "Bee Happy in Room ___" bulletin board. Take pictures of all the students on the first day of school. Make sure you are the same distance from all students when you take the photos. You want the pictures of their faces to be the same size. Make bee bodies out of yellow construction paper. Have students create black stripes on the bodies. After you develop the pictures of students, cut out their heads and attach them to each bumblebee body. Arrange the bees on your board to leave up all year.