Bee Unit Craftivity The Classroom Creative
Bee Unit Craftivity The Classroom Creative
Bee Unit Craftivity The Classroom Creative
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Directions for the Bees
1.) Prepare the stryofoam eggs by cutting them in half lengthwise for the students.
2.) Using Elmer's X-treme School Glue (it's a must for tough projects like this!),
have students glue the styrofoam halves to heavy cardstock.
3.) Print, cut, and paint the templates provided for all three of the bees' abdomens.
4.) Glue the abdomens to the cardstock below the thoraces.
5.) Use two small egg halves for the worker bee's head and thorax. Use a small egg
half and a medium
med egg half for the queen and drone's heads and thoraces.
6.) Once the Elmer's X-treme School Glue has dried, apply a coat of dark brown
craft paint to the heads and thoraces.
7.) Glue black pom-poms with X-treme School glue on each bee's head for the eyes.
8.) Cut the black pipe cleaners, bend, and insert them into the top of the bees' heads
for their antennae.
9.) Cut six pipe cleaners for legs and insert into the sides of the bees' thoraces.
10.) Trace the templates of the bees' wings onto upcycled milk jugs or vellum.
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11.) Cut and insert the wings into the bees' thoraces at the bottom.
12.) Paint two toothpicks with black Elmer's painters' markers. Glue the stingers
on the back of each bee's abdomen with Elmer's X-treme School Glue.
13.) Print and cut labels from our printable bee craftivity pack below.
Use
these templates
to create the abdomens
of your bees. worker bee
abdomen
drone bee
abdomen
Use these wings as templates.
Place under cut milk jugs or vellum.
queen bee
worker
bee
drone wings template
Bee Nomenclature Craft
Directions: Cut these labels. Use them to identify
your different types of bees on your board.
Types of Bees
Queen Drone
Worker
Bee Nomenclature Craft
Directions: Cut these labels. Write the labels on
your own. Use them to identify the different types
of bees on your board.
The Parts of Bees Labels
Directions: Cut these labels. Use them to identify the parts of
the bees on your board.
abdomen abdomen
antennae antennae
eyes eyes
head head
leg leg
*
stinger stinger
thorax thorax
wing wing
* Remember drones do NOT have stingers!
The Parts of Bees Labels
Directions: Cut these labels. Write the body parts of the
different types of bees. Use them to identify the parts of
the bees on your board.
Font credit:
League of Movable Type, Astigmatic
Art:
Nicolette Lennert
Thanks again,
Nicolette & Karen