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The Buzz on Bees

BEE ARTS AND CRAFTS

First School’s Bee Craft page has a list of bee-themed activities for preschoolers, including online coloring pages, an introduction to the letter B, and a make-your-own-flying-bee pattern.
DLTK’s Bumblebee Craft Projects has instructions for several bee projects, among them a bee bookmark, fingerprint bees, and paper-plate bees.
Make a Bumblebee Mobile with fuzzy chenille stems and Styrofoam balls.
BZZZ Says the Bumble Bee has instructions for making particularly cute bees from cardboard tubes.

MUSIC OF AND BY BEES

From NPR, The Bee’s Knees: Music With a Definite Buzz is an assortment of bee-ish music, including three versions of “The Flight of the Bumblebee” (one on the tuba); Franz Schubert’s “The Bee,” and Emily Dickinson’s “Bee, I’m Expecting You” set to music.
Try this art-and-music project in which kids create abstract artworks while listening to “Flight of the Bumblebee.”
This online rendition of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Croatian pianist Maksim Mrvica will knock your socks off.
From Tonehammer, listen to Music Made With Bees. Just bees.
Diego Stocco’s Music from Nature, made to commemorate Earth Day 2012, incorporates bees, tree branches, rice, and coconuts.