Learning about being bee friendly

Students at St Joseph’s RC Primary School, Malvern, UK have created a bee-friendly garden.
The School is officially a BEE-FRIENDLY ZONE thanks to the hard work of all the pupils who:

• chose the bee theme after learning about threats to the bee population and the importance of bees in pollinating vital foods
• raised money to get experts to come and teach them what kinds of plants to grow
• created imaginative new habitats in the school grounds

Garden Study of the Vickers Children
Oil painting by John Singer Sargent 1884

 

New Bee template

This bee template is quite sophisticated compared to many others on the Bee Templates page. I hope it is just what you are looking for. It comes from Imaginesque.

Great bee book for kids

Grow with Me peers into a beehive, a cocoon, garden soil, and elsewhere to explore the lives and growth of an assortment of creatures and plants. 
These books, for ages six and up, offer elementary but fascinating studies of the life stages that bugs, animals, and vegetation experience as they mature. Magnified photos, easy-to- follow text explaining life stages, and a life cycle recap all contribute to an educational experience focused on an up-close look at how the featured creature or plant changes and grows throughout its life span.

Grow with Me: Bee can be purchased at Amazon for only $6.59.

Editorial Reviews on grow with me: BEE

Attractive layout, clean design, and intriguing close-up photos will lure browsers to these explorations of plant and animal life cycles. - School Library Journal

the text provides an elementary but fascinating look at the life cycle... The magnified photos are sure to attract the young reader as they gain an up-close look at the life stages... These full-page photos with captions support a large text so the books can be accessible to younger readers as well.. The books in this series would be excellent for supporting National Science Standard C: Life Science-Life Cycles of Organisms. - National Science Teachers Association

Bee stickers

Only $2.24 and free shipping for these "Bees" - Shape Stickers (72 stickers) which are acid-free and lignin-free. 

Stickers are great for cards and scrapbooking but also for children's  fine motor skills and can be managed from around 3 to 4  years of age.

Bumble bee crafts

Paper plate bees for you to make. I think you will get a good idea how to make them just from looking at these images but if you would like more details click on the link under the photo you like.

www.freekidscrafts.com 

www.dltk-kids.com 

Don't forget to sing some songs about bees with your beautiful bumble bee creations buzzing about.
More bee crafts 

Bee rhymes

Cute bee sayings

Bees for kids

Here is a lovely short poem for children. Short is good as it is easy to remember and it teaches children where bees get honey from and also makes them think: what is the sweet thing that children want to eat? Maybe after you learn the poem you could try some yummy honey on bread.

Busy bee, busy bee, where are you going?
Down where the flowers are budding and growing,
There I shall find something hidden and sweet
That all the children are wanting to eat.

MORE BEE RHYMES AND SONGS
Here is the Beehive
They took some honey: The Owl and the Pussy Cat
The Honeybee song
Collection of Bee Rhymes, Songs and Poems
Bears and honey rhymes

Winnie the Pooh
Can you hear the bees?

Bee colouring in and more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Want more colouring in sheets to choose from? Go here.

Looking for heaps of bee craft ideas?

Bee crafts can be incorporated into a Spring theme or a Summer theme or into Earth Day which is coming up soon. Please visit our CRAFTY BEE STUFF page for lots of inspiration and templates and printables on bee crafts for young and old.

Easter Bees to make and bake and buy

Some ideas for all you bee lovers that incorporate bees and Easter - especially if you ascribe to the view that Easter is about new life and spring I think bees should be in there with the bunnies, eggs and chicks, don't you?

Isn't this a beautiful decorated egg from Idora Designs where she explains how she painted it.

Photo thanks to DyeDye

 

 

Don't forget my old favourite for taking along to schooleaster egg parades...with instructions on how to make it.

 

 

Little Bee Box with Easter Egg & Chococlates

 

 

 

I know this is a wedding cake topper but thought I could modify it for an Easter cake.

 

 What better and healthier Easter gift could there bee than a jar of honey with a label made like the above card from zazzle.

 

 

Hap

Easter to you!

 

 

Wordless Wednesday: Bee drawing

Linking up with Angry Julie Monday, Better in Bulk,