This Bee Fine Motor Activity is packed with educational goodness. Not only will your preschoolers develop fine motor skills, but they’ll also have some sensory fun while learning a bit of science. This is definitely a play idea to save for your Spring themed curriculums.
This activity starts with bee tongs flying around a garden of cupcake liner flowers. The flowers are filled with yellow rainbow rice which acts as pollen while in the flowers. Transfer the pollen into the beehive and turn it into honey.
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More Spring Fine Motor Activities
Spring Fine Motor Activities are essential for every Spring themed curriculum. These are some of my favorite play ideas to help toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners to develop fine motor skills while they play.
Cut the Grass – This scissors activity gives the kids a wonderful surprise. As they cut the grass (green craft paper), they’ll discover different flowers and insects hiding underneath. The spring scene hiding under the grass comes as a free printable to make this activity easy to prep, even for a large class. Visit the Cut the Grass post to get your free copy.
Spring Bugs Sticker Activity – Turn dot stickers into cute garden bugs. Then stick the bugs onto a toilet roll garden scene. This can be used purely as a fine motor activity for toddlers, or a number matching activity for preschool and kindergarten.
Vegetable Garden Posting – This is another free printable for you to download. Glue the vegetables onto some craft sticks and plant them into a tissue box garden. This is a wonderful way to talk about healthy food and how plants grow
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Materials Needed
- Bubble tongs
- Sharpie
- Blue felt or paper (optional)
- Yellow rainbow rice
- cupcake liners
- carboard
- yellow craft paper
How to Make this Bee Fine Motor Activity
Step 1: Make your bees
To make these bees, you’ll need some bubble tongs. I was fortunate enough to have these yellow ones, but of course, they would look lovely in any color.
Next, take a black sharpie and draw a face and stripes onto the tongs. (You can clean the marker off later using a bit of rubbing alcohol)
Finally, cut out two small wings from some blue felt or paper and glue them onto the back of the bee. This is optional. So don’t fret if you don’t have any blue paper readily available. Remember to ensure that the tongs can still open when you’ve glued the wings on.
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Step 2: Make the flowers
To make the flowers, collect cupcake liners in different colors. I used yellow ones for the center and red and pink ones for the petals.
Spread out a cupcake liner until it’s a flat circle, these will be the petals
Next, glue a yellow cupcake liner into the center of the circle. Let it dry.
This is one of the easiest flowers you can create, and I decided to create the flowers this way because I had the cupcake liners already in the cupboard. However, I did find that they weren’t strong enough for this activity. I would recommend making egg carton flowers instead, as these are more sturdy and will keep their shape while being played with.
Finally, fill the center of the flowers with yellow rainbow rice (I use this taste-safe rainbow rice recipe to make it), to act as the flower’s pollen.
Related: Fine Motor Flowers Math Tray – No Time for Flashcards
Step 3: Make the beehive
To make the beehive base you’ll need to start by drawing the beehive shape onto a piece of thick yellow cardboard. Cut it out.
Next, cut some strips of paper, about 1 inch thick, and glue it along the edges of your hive base. I find that a hot glue gun is the fastest and easiest way to do this.
Finally, take a yellow sharpie and draw a beehive pattern (interlocking hexagons) on the base. Don’t worry if the pattern gets more chaotic as you keep drawing. The kids won’t care.
Related: Spring Lacing Cards – Living Life and Learning
Step 4: Putting it all together
Get the bees to transfer the pollen from the flowers into the beehive. This activity is a fantastic opportunity to talk to the class about all sorts of bee-related facts. Such as:
1. How bees help the flowers to grow.
2. How they make honey
3. How bees dance to communicate.
Read up on more Honey Bee Facts for Kids to get ready for all the questions you’re bound to get.
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Honey Bee Fine Motor Activity
This Bee Fine Motor Activity is packed with educational goodness. Not only will your preschoolers develop fine motor skills, but they’ll also have some sensory fun while learning a bit of science. This is definitely a play idea to save for your Spring themed curriculums.
Materials
- Bubble tongs
- Sharpie
- Blue felt or paper (optional)
- Yellow rainbow rice
- cupcake liners
- carboard
- yellow craft paper
Instructions
- Make your bees
To make these bees, you’ll need some bubble tongs. I was fortunate enough to have these yellow ones, but of course, they would look lovely in any color.Next, take a black sharpie and draw a face and stripes onto the tongs. (You can clean the marker off later using a bit of rubbing alcohol)Finally, cut out two small wings from some blue felt or paper and glue them onto the back of the bee. This is optional. So don’t fret if you don’t have any blue paper readily available. Remember to ensure that the tongs can still open when you’ve glued the wings on. - Make the flowers
To make the flowers, collect cupcake liners in different colors. I used yellow ones for the center and red and pink ones for the petals.Spread out a cupcake liner until it’s a flat circle, these will be the petalsNext, glue a yellow cupcake liner into the center of the circle. Let it dry.This is one of the easiest flowers you can create, and I decided to create the flowers this way because I had the cupcake liners already in the cupboard. However, I did find that they weren’t strong enough for this activity. I would recommend making egg carton flowers instead, as these are more sturdy and will keep their shape while being played with.Finally, fill the center of the flowers with yellow rainbow rice (I use this taste-safe rainbow rice recipe to make it), to act as the flower’s pollen. - Make the Beehive
To make the beehive base you’ll need to start by drawing the beehive shape onto a piece of thick yellow cardboard. Cut it out.Next, cut some strips of paper, about 1 inch thick, and glue it along the edges of your hive base. I find that a hot glue gun is the fastest and easiest way to do this.Finally, take a yellow sharpie and draw a beehive pattern (interlocking hexagons) on the base. Don’t worry if the pattern gets more chaotic as you keep drawing. The kids won’t care. - Put it all together.
Get the bees to transfer the pollen from the flowers into the beehive. This activity is a fantastic opportunity to talk to the class about all sorts of bee-related facts. Such as:
1. How bees help the flowers to grow.
2. How they make honey
3. How bees dance to communicate.