This bee life cycle craft is a great way to get your kids excited about learning science, while also familiarizing themselves with these hardworking workers of nature – bees!

With a few simple supplies at home, you can help your kids create an interactive and tactile illustration of the life cycle of the bee. Read on to find out how!

If you need more bee ideas, see this list of Bee Activities for Kids.

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Fun Facts About Bees

You’ll love learning these fun facts about these amazing tiny creatures who we should appreciate more for all that they do.

Bees are nature’s hardworking pollinators! They help transfer pollen for flowers, fruits, and vegetables so that it helps the plants around us grow faster.
They make delicious honey from the nectar they collect. They store honey for their bee hive and colony to consume during winter.
Don’t be fooled by these little insects’ cute appearances! These bees can fly at a speed of around 17 m per hour or 25km per hour with wings fluttering at around 200 times per second.
Their average life span is just five to six weeks for worker bees, and queen bees can live up to two years!
These little hardworking flyers also are brilliant dancers! They pass around the best food locations to other bee workers in their hive by performing a cool wiggling dance. Ain’t that super adorable?

Recommended Books About Bees

Introducing bees, their life cycle, and their vital importance to our environment to our kids can be a great part of their science learning. Check out these recommended books that can help you introduce these fascinating creatures to your little ones.

All Things Bees For Kids: Filled With Plenty of Facts, Photos, and Fun to Learn all About Bees Save the Bees (Save the Earth Book 3)DK Readers L2: Amazing Bees: Buzzing with Bee Facts! (DK Readers Level 2)Explore My World: Honey Bees The Life and Times of the Honeybee EXTRAOR-BEE-NARY Extraordinary Facts About Bees: An Educational Book About Honey Bees With Illustrations for Children

Recommended Bee Life Cycle Activity Kits

Little Learners Print & Go Activity Kit: Honey Bee Life Cycle

Turn your kids into fully pledged honey bee lovers and enjoy the fun-filled experience of working with them through these 34 pages of fun color illustrations, tracing pages, and information cards about bees!

Life Cycle Figurines: 4 Life Stages of Bee

Take your little homeschooler’s science learning to the next level and have a fun demonstration of the bee’s life cycle with them using this more realistic representation of the 4 stages of the bee’s life.

Finished bee life cycle paper plate craft with labels

Recommended Honey Bee Toys

Your kids be able to get enough of these little pollinators. Here are more fun toys that are not just about bees, but also great for your child’s motor skills, creativity, and critical thinking.

Gamie Save The Bee Game for Kids – Interactive Stacking and Tumbling Game MONT PLEASANT Sorting Stacking Wooden Bee Toys KOOKAROO Wooden Bee Hive Sorting & Stacking Toys for Toddlers Crazy Aaron’s Honey Hive® Thinking Putty®Pidoko Kids Garden Bug Memory Game Avenor Toddler Fine Motor Skills Toy for 3 4 5 Year Old – Clamp Bee to Hive Matching Game

Bee Life Cycle Craft Supplies

These are the list of simple supplies you need to complete the bee life cycle craft. Most of these materials can be found in your kid’s art supplies (or even your own!).

Construction papers (brown and yellow)
Coupon/White bond paper
Scissors
Glue stick
Marker
Pom poms (yellow and white)
Paper plate

How to Make a Bee Life Cycle Craft

What’s a better way for your kids to learn about the bee’s life cycle than through an educational craft activity?

Cutting and drawing shapes (hexagons) on the yellow construction paper for the bee’s make-believe hive starts this activity. It makes the presentation of the bee’s life cycle more eye-catching to your kids.

an image of yellow paper cut out with pentagon shapes

You can re-create the first life stage of a bee by creating a bee’s egg using some cotton balls.

Use three cotton balls to make a larva. Have your kids label each stage of the life cycle, if they’re younger, you can write it for them.

The pupa is another stage in a bee’s life, you can use a brown paper bag to recreate the pupa’s real-life appearance!

Don’t forget about the star of the show— the bee in its adult form! Create your own adorable bee to complete its life stage as an adult by using cotton balls, glue sticks, and markers. Don’t forget to attach your bee’s little wings made of paper!

Hooray! You are done creating your own bee life cycle craft!

Bee Life Cycle Craft

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Active Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Learn the life cycle of bees with your homeschooler as they get to enjoy doing this fun bee life cycle craft using the simplest art supplies you can find.

Materials

Construction papers (brown and yellow)
White coupon/bond paper
Scissors
Glue stick
Marker
Pom poms (yellow and white)
Paper plate

Instructions

Create a round shape a bit smaller than your paper plate using yellow construction paper and a pair of scissors.
Draw connecting hexaagon shapes resembling a bee hive on the yellow construction paper using a black marker.
You can now attach your yellow "bee hive" onto the paper plate.
To make the bees' eggs, make small rounded pompoms (white pom poms) and place them in one of the drawn pentagon shapes on the yellow paper. Make sure to label them as eggs.
For the larva, use three white pom poms and wrap them on a piece of white bond paper shaped in a semi-cylindrical form mimicking the looks of a larva. Place it in one of the drawn pentagon shapes on the yellow paper. Make sure to label it as larva.
For the pupa, use another three white pom poms and wrap them this time on brown construction paper, and form it into a semi-cylindrical shape similar to a larva. Place it in one of the drawn pentagon shapes on the yellow paper. Make sure to label it as pupa.
Create your adult bee by connecting three yellow pom poms using a glue stick as its body. Then use a marker to design the body with eyes and stripes that will make it look more similar to a real-life bee.
You can create a pair of wings by cutting out two pieces of paper shaped like bee wings. You can use a pen to draw veins to its wings then attach them to the back part of your adult bee.
To finish your craft, put the adult bee in one of the drawn pentagon shapes on the yellow construction paper. Make sure to label it as adult bee.
Hooray! Your bee life cycle craft is now done!

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Learning about the life cycle of bees is not just fascinating and educational but most importantly, it can provide lots of fun for your little learners at home! You can help your kids learn all about this essential part of nature while getting creative with these awesome bee-themed crafts!

So grab some construction paper and markers (and other supplies on the list!) and get started with your life cycle of a bee craft today!

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