Bumble Bee Craft for Kids

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This bumble bee craft for kids is a fun way to celebrate spring or summer! With just a few materials you can create your own hive of bees that are perfect for decorating, labeling bins,  holding pictures and more. The possibilities are endless. Using wooden clothespins, googly eyes and felt, this cute bee craft works great as an elementary or preschool craft, depending upon the materials used.

Bee crafts are a fun rainy day activity! I love working with clothespins for crafts, like this clothespin butterfly craft we shared a couple years ago. This clothespin bee from Katie Femia is a fun way to brighten up any space and is great for preschool through elementary school.  This craft can be easily changed to work for kids of all ages and lots of variations can be made depending upon on the materials you have available.

Bumble Bee Craft Supplies

To make this adorable bee clothespin craft, you’ll need the following materials:

• wooden clothespins
• yellow acrylic craft paint
• googly eyes
• black marker or pen
• craft glue or hot glue with glue gun
• black felt or black construction paper
• scissors
• paint brush

You could skip the painting step altogether and buy yellow wooden clothespins instead!

How to Make A Bumble Bee from a Clothespin:

You’ll want to start this simple craft by painting the top of your clothespin with the yellow paint. Be sure to apply two coats and allow it to dry in between coasts. 

While the paint dries, you can create the wings of your bees. Simply cut out ovals (connected like we did or separate) to apply to the back of the clip.

Use your craft glue or hot glue to adhere the wings to the back of the clip.

Add a drop of glue to each eye and press into place on the front of the clip. Once the paint is dry, take the black marker and create lines on the clip so your bumbles have stripes.

 Your bumble bee clothespins can now be displayed or used as a fun clip!

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Bumble Bee Craft Clothespin

Bee crafts are fun for kids of all ages! Celebrate spring or summer with this cute bumble bee clothespin. Lots of variations included to make this kids craft work for all ages!

Instructions

1. Begin by applying two coats of yellow paint to the clothespins. Allow to dry.
2. While the paint dries, you can create the wings of your bees. Simply cut out ovals (connected like we did or separate) to apply to the back of the clip.
3. Use your craft glue or hot glue to adhere the wings to the back of the clip.
4. Add a drop of glue to each eye and press into place on the front of the clip.
5. Once the paint is dry, take the black marker and create lines on the clip so your bumbles have stripes.

Recipe Notes

You can easily customize this bee clothespin craft including:

• tissue paper, coffee filters, construction paper or cupcake wrappers for the wings instead of felt.
• yellow permanent markers instead of paint or use yellow clothespins.
• add pipe cleaners to the top for antennae

Clothespin Bumble Bee Variations:

You can really customize this clothespin bee craft based on your personal preferences or to better fit the age group of the maker.

• tissue paper, coffee filters, construction paper or even cupcake wrappers for the wings instead of felt.
• yellow permanent markers instead of paint or use yellow clothespins.
• add pipe cleaners to the top for antennae.

These other options will help for younger ages who may struggle with cutting felt or to keep the mess at a minimum.

More Bee Crafts:

If you just can’t get enough of bumble bee craft ideas, check these out:

• paper plate bee
• spring toilet paper roll crafts
• bee corner bookmark
• bumble bee planter
• hand print bee puppet