On a large white piece of paper (about 150 cm. long, you can also use brown paper) all together we draw the landscape of the meadow, bush or field: we prepare the background with the children, using the spot or the sponge technique. Then we stick plants and flowers to this background using the samples we collected in the field. On this big picture we can insert the bees that we have prepared. Every child can draw and cut out the silhouette of a bee using gold-coloured cardboard. Then he or she can glue black strips to the body and attach the wings cut out in transparent plastic. The bees can be fastened to the plants on which we saw them settle with drawing tacks or pins.

Educational Activity: poetry school

We can stimulate the children's imagination and have them write short poems about bees and their work in the field.

We can start from a poem by Emily Dickinson:

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.

The starting point could be: A BEE IS…
Or even: IN THE FIELD I SAW…

Educational Activity: nectar and pollen

Bees collect nectar from flowers and use it to produce honey.