Flight Of The Bumblebees

I love art that can be played with. We created some paper plate bumblebees yesterday!  To prepare, cut out some black stripes, stingers, and some wax paper wings.

 

In place of paint you can use crayons or chalk.  Don't have wiggly eyes? Draw some eyes on! 

 

The kids painted the underside of the plates yellow. 

 

Add the stripes, stinger, wings and wiggly eyes.   When the paint dries, draw some angry eyebrows. 

 

For fun, draw some angry teeth.  I noticed that the kids ran faster and played harder with their bees when they thought the bees were angry!

 

Here's what I like to do; add a glove!  Any glove will do, these are the non latex kind.  I just stapled at the wrist and on the fingers.

See?  Now the bumblebees can be worn for easy play time.

Bzzzzzz.. Bzzzzzzz...

It's so much more fun when everyone has the same toy. :)

We have noticed a lot of bumblebees in the gardens lately, so this was a great project to invite conversations about bumblebees and what they do. 

♥♥♥Happy Wednesday!♥♥♥