An Adorable and Easy Bee Craft to Make with Kids

Make the Bees' Heads and Bodies

Start making your bees by creating the bodies. Take your yellow paper and punch out large and medium-sized circles.

Attach the Heads to the Bodies

Make the head and body of the bees by gluing the medium-sized circles to the larger circles as shown using glue dots.

Cut Out Bees' Stripes & Antennae

Next, using a paper cutter or scissors, make thin strips with the black paper. If you don't have a paper cutter, just make straight lines with a ruler and cut along the lines to make the strips. Each strip should be thin, about 1/4-inch wide.

Attach Bees' Stripes

Glue stripes to the body of the bees using the black strips of paper, as shown. For each bee, use two or three strips of paper.

Cut off Excess Stripes

1. Cut off excess strips of black paper to make them fit the bee bodies
2. Then, take the black marker and draw on the eyes and mouth to make the faces for each bee.

Attach Antennae

1. Cut the black strips of paper into shorter pieces.
2. Glue them to the backs of the heads of each bee to make the antennae.

Cut Out Antennae Toppers

Add a pop of color and fun touch to the bee antennae with a small heart- or flower-shaped paper punch. You can leave your bees plain, but adding these little touches at the end of each antenna makes them much cuter—even more than they already are!

Attach Antennae Toppers

Glue on the antennae toppers to the front of each antenna, as shown.

Attach Stingers and Sticks

These stingers are cute and safe, unlike the real thing!

1. Using the black paper, cut out small triangles.
2. Then, glue them to the bodies of the bees.
3. If you want to put the bees into planters around the house or use them as puppets, glue craft sticks to the back of each bee.

Add Wings

While the bees are adorable just as they are without the wings, you may want to add them for extra detail.

1. Use a small circle punch, about 1-inch in diameter (or a small bottle that you can use to trace and cut your circles) make the wings using see-through vellum paper or tracing paper.
2. Glue the wings onto the bodies of the bees.
3. Overlap the wings by putting one wing on the front and one on the back.

Decorate With Your Bees

Once you have a batch of finished bees, put them all around the house–in your flower pots, on your fridge, on your walls, or anywhere they fit.