Bumble Bee Crafts With Easter Eggs
Easter is a time to let creative energy flow; from pastel dyes to silly stickers, there are no limits when it comes decorating eggs. But why reserve just one time of year to have fun making colorful eggs? Use Easter inspiration for crafts all year long and choose unexpected colors to decorate your eggs. In fact, a black and yellow combination will have others buzzing about the cool bumblebee crafts that can be made by children and adults. Does this Spark an idea?
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Yarn Bumblebees
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This is an easy craft youngsters and adults can do together. By using yarn to create a hive and several bees to fly around it, it's also a great opportunity to educate children about bees. All crafters need is black and yellow yarn or string, glue, wax paper, a toothpick and several eggs. Begin by gluing a strand of yellow yarn, or string, to the tip of an egg; coil the yarn around the egg while alternating between black and yellow to create stripes. Glue the yarn in place as needed by using a toothpick to keep strands in place. Use wax paper to create wings and glue them to the yarn-covered egg. Cover an entire egg with yellow yarn to create the hive. Display the bees and their hive on a table or display them in a flower pot surrounded by pretty flowers.
Glitzy Bees
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Take a hard-boiled or blown egg and use a glue stick to cover it with glue. Sprinkle black and gold glitter in a striped pattern all over the egg. After letting the glitter and glue dry, take white pipe cleaners and shape them into wings. Fasten them to the bee with a hot glue gun to make a glamorous, glitzy bee.
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Blowing Bumble Eggs
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Another way to create bumblebees is by blowing eggs, rather than hard-boiling them. Children can paint half of the egg with black and yellow stripes, then after letting that half dry, they can flip it over to finish the bee’s stripes. Add a smile and eyes to one end of the egg and glue some wings made from tissue paper to the top and the bee is almost complete. Lastly, use fishing line to fasten the egg to an egg tree or even the ceiling to complete the flying bumblebee scene.
Child-friendly Crafts
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It doesn’t get any easier than this. If working with small children, use the other suggested crafts as inspiration to make simple bumblebees in less than an hour. Hard-boil some eggs. After letting them cool, allow children to use black and yellow markers to color stripes on the eggs, then cut wings from tissue or wax paper and glue them into place. Children can also use their imaginations to create funky bumblebees by using any colors they choose from their marker collection. Who said there’s no such thing as a purple and pink bee? With a little imagination, anything is possible.
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