Honey Bee Fine Motor Activity for Preschool
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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As the weather warms up, now is the perfect time to try some of these Spring activities for kids. I don’t know about you, but there’s something about the change in seasons that gets my kids excited about learning. Or you can invest in the Spring Activity Pack, which is filled with educational ideas for young kids.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Activity
- Spring Bugs Fine Motor Activity
- Vegetable Garden Fine Motor Activity
- Spring Flowers Fine Motor Activity Tray
- Button Flowers
For more ideas, visit 24 Spring Fine Motor Activities.
Spring Activity Pack
Over 90+ pages of Spring themed play based learning activities and craft templates. Perfect for preschool and kindergarten.
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