Here’s a craft that is fun for the kids. Its a cheap and easy and you can learn some phun facts while doing it with your friends and family.

Supplies Needed:

* Paper Plates (1 per person)

* Wax Paper

* Scissors

* Tape or glue (glue works best, but tape will work)

* Black construction paper

* Yellow paint

* Black paint

* White marker

* Paint brush

How to Make:

Start by coloring or painting the plate with black and yellow stripes like a bee. The kids can have as many or as few a stripes as they like. No two bees look the same. (The less paint you use the faster it will dry)

 While the paint is drying the kids can cut out wings from the wax paper.

Once the wings are done, you can have the kids cut out stingers from the construction paper.

Once the paint is dry the kids can glue/tape the wings  and stinger on their bee.

After the wings and stinger have been attached, use the white marker/colored pencil/white out and draw a face on your happy bee.

Phun Facts:

There are more than 25,000 species of bees identified in the world and 3,500 of those are in the United States.

8 of the 1o are hunny bees.

Honey bees are insects with 6 legs, 3 body segements and antennas.

Honey bees feed on pollen and nectar.

Most honey bees have pollen baskets on their legs to carry pollen when they fly

Honey bees are social insects, they do not like to live alone.

There are 4 stages for bees- egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

Bees live in groups called colonies. There is the queen, workers, and drones.

There is only 1 queen per hive.

99% of the population are worker bees.

Only male bees can be drones.

Each colony can have as many as 60,000 bees in it!!!

 

If you make this craft you all should post your pictures on the site so everyone can see your masterpieces.