Bobo Gallery: Honeycomb Art & Fingerprint Bees

We have been all abuzz with our Bee related crafts and learning.

After learning about Bees I must say I feel a certain kinship to the female worker bees - they are a lot like us Mamas! :)

2 Great Books we read:

Are You a Bee? (Backyard Books) by Judy Allen - I have really been enjoying this entire series about insects. They have one for the butterfly, bee, ant, spider, grasshopper, ladybug and dragonfly. The book gives many facts in a fun kid friendly way. If you have not read them - I highly recommend them. A great way to introduce scientific facts via storytelling.

In the Trees, Honey Bees! by Lori Mortensen - full of wonderful facts and amazing illustrations this was probably my favorite book of the week! I learned so much from it and the girls were enthralled with the full page, colorful llustrations. A gem of a book.

After looking at some books with pictures of beehives and honeycomb I let the girls use our pattern blocks to make a beehive. This was a great way to introduce the concept of what I wanted them to do for our craft.

The Craft: Honeycomb Art & Fingerprint Bees

What You Need:
Honeycomb cereal
glue
blue construction paper
yellow and black paint
black permanent marker
markers or crayons in various colors

What To Do:

1. Glue honeycomb cereal onto paper to make a beehive. I started by telling the Lil Divas they would be desigining their own beehive using the honeycomb cereal.
They took a moment to think about their design and then the fun began.

The Oldest Diva went to work making a beehive shape

The Littlest Diva did a bit more snacking than gluing

but she eventually got into the project too

Here is the Oldest Diva's design:

and the Littlest Diva's design:

Now to add some honeybees!

2. Dip thumb into yellow paint and add to paper wherever they would like a bee. I started by having them pick the number of bees they wanted on their picture. They each chose their age for their number so we had 4 & 5 bees to make.