Let’s Get Buzzing About World Bee Day

I did a post all about bee learning activities last year, not realizing that May 20 is World Bee Day. So let’s gather some more fun activities to do with bees or with a bee theme, for World Bee Day or any day.

First, learn some fun bee facts from American Bee Journal. Here’s one I didn’t know: a bee would have to travel about 90,000 miles, or three times around the globe, to produce a pound of honey, but that bee would only need an ounce of honey to fuel a trip around the world.

Rock Your Homeschool has some fun bee-themed worksheets, including a word search, bee life cycle, anatomy and information on how bees make honey.

Living Life and Learning also has some great printable cards for the life cycle of a bee.

Feed the bee and learn the beginning sounds of words with this cute printable alphabet game from Miniature Masterminds.

How Wee Learn has a printable set of bee-themed alphabet cards (free with email address) and a great collection of other crafts and activities to check out.

Stay at Home Educator has a nice set of printable bee counting cards you can use for working on one to one correspondence. Use little bee shaped erasers, pompoms or the bees from a Honeybee Tree game (which is also fun to play when you’re doing a bee unit) as counters.

Or you can combine math and art with this dice rolling drawing game from Friends Art Lab. It’s shown just with drawing stripes on the bees but you could also do dots or other shapes or let the kids pick how to decorate them.

There’s a pollination activity in that other post, too, but I wanted to share this one from Cultivating Brilliant Minds, too. This one is a craft, a STEM activity and a snack break all in one!

Make an easy bee craft with this cut and paste printable from Crafts on Sea.

Right Click, Save to download this coloring sheet.

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Learning about Bees for Kids

Most kids go through a phase where they want to learn more about animals, and it’s fun for them to learn about the diversity of the natural world and what humans can do to protect other creatures we share the planet with. Camilla de la Bedoyere has written a couple of books, illustrated by Philip Giordano, to help kids learn more about birds and bees.

Wild Your World: Birds looks at many different kinds of birds that live around the world and covers things like parts of a bird, different habitats that birds live in, migration, camouflage, what and how birds eat and more.

With lovely illustrations showing a diverse array of birds found around the world, the book talks about different birds that live in the woodlands, rainforest, fields and farms, coastland, grasslands and deserts, urban areas and the polar regions.

It talks about some of the biggest, smallest and fastest birds, and fun facts about different birds. For example you’ll learn about birds that next in cacti, the birds with weird shaped eggs so they won’t roll off cliffs, and meet the birds that migrate from New Zealand to Alaska.

Wild Your World: Bees follows a similar format, talking about different kinds of bees (and how the vast majority of bee species are solitary bees), parts of a bee and why bees look the way they do, how bees collect nectar and pollen, how bees sense the world around them, how their wings work and what life in a colony is like.

It covers the bee life cycle, how bees make honey, what causes a swarm and more. It covers digger bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, cuckoo bees (who lay their eggs in the nests of teddy bear bees so they don’t have to take care of their young), mining bees, plasterer bees, leaf-cutter, wool carder and mason bees (so named because they collect materials to make their nests), bumblebees and swaet bees.

Readers will also learn about keeping bees. Both books talk about the dangers to birds and bees and what humans can do to help them.

These books are aimed at readers ages 4-9 who will enjoy looking at the pictures and learning about these animals and how people can help protect them.

About the books: Both books are 46 pages and hardcover. Published 2025 by Design Eye (see: birds|bees). Both books retail for $16.99.

Let’s Get Buzzing About World Bee Day

Bee Craft – Learning about Pollination

Learning about Bees for Kids

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