Activities, Crafts and Books About Bees

Bees are fascinating creatures. We enjoy their honey and we run as fast as we can when we see one coming towards us. Ha! We do appreciate, though, all that they do for our environment and how they keep this world beautiful. This post is a mini tribute to bees because they are just so smart and so cool. We have a great list of activities, crafts and books about bees.

Books About Bees

*We received an advance reading copy of A Season to Bee for review. My review is my own opinion and thoughts on the book read. This post also contains affiliate links. Please read our full disclosure here for more info on this. 

A Season to Bee by Carlos Aponte

Ages 3-5 

Fashion illustrator Carlos Aponte gives readers front row seats to the runway show of the season! Join Miss V. McQueen and her band of fashion bugs as they flit and flutter their brilliant colors down the catwalk. Ladybug reds, butterfly golds, and grasshopper greens provide young readers with a chic introduction to the colors found all around us. – Penguin Random House

This book is perfect for my little fashionista and the bee is too darn cute! The illustrations are just darling – filled with color and all things fashion, complete with paparazzi and bugs in high heels. It makes a fun way to incorporate learning colors and afterwards you can have your little one put on their own fashion show of colors!

More Books about Bees

I still remember when my then toddler son was learning how to identify letters. He was so proud of himself for connecting the letter B from our foam alphabet puzzle to the Bee movie playing on the tv. Bees seem to be popular in those younger years. Here are even more books featuring bumblebees and cover a variety of topics including having courage to do what you think you can’t, the importance of sharing with others, food chains, and how workers, drones, and the queen bees live together. There’s also a couple of cute suggestions for toddlers.

1. The Very Greedy Bee
2. Buzz
3. Amazing Bees
4. Time For Kids: Bees!
5. Bee & Me
6. National Geographic Readers: Bees
7. The Life and Times of the Honeybee
8. The Honey Makers
9. Calling All Honeybees! A Kids Book About Honeybees & How They Make Honey
10. Are You a Bee?

Books for kids filled with lots of great info about bees:

The following books will help teach kids about the importance of bees and the role they play, as well as how honeybees make honey and beeswax. Some also feature real photos.

Crafts, Printables and Activities about Bees

Educational Activities:

• Bee Life Cycle Pack
• Free Label the Parts of a Bee Printable
• Free Printable Counting Bees Math Worksheets

Crafts:

• Adorable Bee Footprint Craft
• Preschool Bumblebee Craft
• Recycled Egg Carton Beehive & Bumble Bee Craft
• Yarn Wrapped Bee
• Bee Finger Puppets

Recipes:

• Tutorial for Bumble Bee Cupcakes
• Bumblebee Cereal and Fruit Snack

Thank you for visiting our Activities, Crafts and Books About Bees post! See our post about butterfly books and activities for another fun bug theme.

Amanda

Artsy Momma

Amanda is an ‘artsy momma’ to 2 kids who love making crafts just as much as she does. Follow their creative journey over on the blog titled Artsy Momma. Besides crafts, they share fun food ideas, hands-on learning activities, mommy DIY, + lots more! If you love handprint art, head over to their Fun Handprint Art blog where you will find hundreds of their projects all made with little hands and feet.