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EDUCATION | OUTREACH | COMMUNITY EVENTSBEE-ING A PART OF THE COMMUNITY
We offer Honey Bee Presentations, educational hands-on activities, games, crafts for all ages.
BUSY BEES: GAMES | ACTIVITIES | CRAFTS
Any of these can be included in any event or presentation
AUTHOR/ ILLUSTRATOR VISIT
Book a guest author or guest illustrator visit and hear us read “My UnBEElievable Life”. Pre-order copies available signed by author and/or illustrator.- All ages
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
- Good for community events
HONEYCOMB GAME
Can you guess what bees store in their honeycomb? Look at the pictures and think about stages of the lifecycle and food storage as you guess what is in each picture. After you guess flip the picture over and see if you were correct. After you guess all the pictures, break through the tissue paper cover of the ‘honeycomb’ and get your sweet reward, a honey candy!
POLLINATION ACTIVITY
Want to try the bee simulator? What is it like to pollinate? Grab a bee hand puppet and try your ‘hand’ at pollinating. Visit the flowers and bring the pollen back to the hive. Bees eat pollen and honey. Pollination is a very important job of the worker bee.
- All ages
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
- Good for community events
SEED PACKETS, MAKE AND TAKE
What kind of flowers do bees like? Do you want to help the bees and other pollinators by planting flowers? Make and Take seed packets are a great spring/ early summer activity. Take a few pre-seeded paper confetti flowers or hearts, place them in the biodegradable/compostable newspaper envelope and close the flab. Plant in a sunny area and water. You are growing bee food!
POLLINATOR TIC TAC TOE
Bees vs. Lady Bugs! Grab your bugs and challenge a friend to a friendly game of Tic Tac Toe on a log board.
- All ages
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
- Good for community events
PIN THE POLLEN ON THE WORKER BEE
Put on your blindfold and try your hand at placing the pollen on the correct part of the worker bee! No Donkeys here, just a bee that needs her pollen baskets!
- Great for kids
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
BEE ANTENNA
Become a bee! Grab a headband and twist up some pipe cleaners. We will help with the glue and adding a fuzzy ball. Welcome to the colony!
- All ages
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
- Good for community events
MAKE A BEE
This paper plate craft is lots of fun! Yellow plate with white wings and electric tape stripes. After you build it put it on a stick and make it fly!
- Great for Kids
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
HANG-BEE
Our version of Hangman. Don’t build the bee by the flowers sprayed with pesticides! Participants work on guessing the bee related words (Pollination, Queen Bee, etc.) and as wrong letters are guessed you add a bee body part. Lesson has body part list, felt bee and bee vocabulary & spelling!- Medium groups
- Elementary age
- Good for classrooms
BEESWAX ROLLED CANDLES
Feeling Crafty? Let’s make some beeswax rolled candles! Choose colors and styles and roll up your own beeswax candle. Do you want a taper or a skep? Get some wick and have some fun!- 12-Adult
- Small groups or stations
ANATO-BEE GAME
Roll the die and grab your number and add it to the bee body. Did you know bees have 4 wings? Use up all your numbers before your opponent.- 2-player game
- good for small groups or stations
- good for community events
BEE BUTTON BOOKMARKS
This little craft lets you turn buttons into bees! Take a bookmark with buttons and use the colored markers to design your take home bookmark. Bee’s, flowers, anything you like!
- All ages
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
- Good for community events
BEE INGO
Who wants to play Bee INGO? The classic game takes a twist using bee vocabulary and education to make a bingo. Great for after a presentation.
- All Ages
- Medium groups
- Good for classrooms
3-D PRINTED BEE CELLS ACTIVITY
Take the magnetized bee hexagons and stack them up to see nectar, pollen, life cycle, queen cells and more!- All Ages
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
HONEYCOMB CEREAL GUESSING GAME
How many honeycomb cereal pieces are in the big container? Can you make a good guess? All guess within 100 get a little bee eraser.
- Great for kids
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
- Good for community events
OBSERVATION HIVE
Let us bring the bees to you! This portable observation hive keeps the bees safely behind glass for you to see and enjoy. Can you find the queen bee? Great tool that people can’t get enough of! Seasonal availability.
- Great for classrooms
- All ages
- Favorite at community events
BEES MAKE OUR FOOD! MATCHING ACTIVITY
Take the quiz! Can you identify some of the flowers that turn into our favorite foods? These flowers are some of the bee’s favorite flowers to visit and their work helps us with the development of our harvest. Take the bee wand and match the flower to the fruit or veggie it produces and see if you get a match. Thanks Bees!
- All ages
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
- Good for community events
HONEY TASTING
Use your senses to look, smell and taste different international honeys. Can you tell where the bees who produced each honey were visiting? Honey can have very different characteristics depending on the nectar source the bees find. Dark to light, thin to thick, sweet and even hints of bitterness. Take your taste buds on a sweet journey!
- All ages
- Small groups or stations
- Good for classrooms
- Good for community events
DCA GAME
Drone Congregation Area Game. Fly your male drone bee down to the queen. Grab a rope to raise and waggle your bee down to the center where the queen bee is.- All ages
- Small groups or stations
- Outdoors only
- Good for community events