Beehive Art
After our bubble wrap prints dried, we turned this into a collaborative art activity. Everyone helped to draw bees in the hives.
Hexagon Building
The shape of the cells inside beehives resembles a hexagon, so we explored different ways to build that shape.
Pollen Transfer and Beehive Play
Like ladybugs, bees are helpful insects that aid in the growth of plants. I set up some flower cups around the room with pom-pom "pollen" inside. The kids used tweezers to pick up pollen from the flowers and eventually brought the pollen back to the egg-carton "beehive" in the sensory bin.
Their play evolved, of course, and other additions were made to their beehive like drawing in honey with markers, using my bee figurines to act out worker bees and the queen bee, and using the yellow slime that we made earlier as honey as well. It was fun to watch their creativity!
Bee Books
I set out the leftover bubble wrap along with our books just in case anyone wanted some extra fine motor practice. :)
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