- Generate a little buzz in the fashion world with some bee-themed clothing and accessory items. Decorate a plain T-shirt or sweatshirt with black and yellow stripes, painting with acrylics or sewing pieces of fabric to create your pattern. For a groovy take on bees, tie-dye a shirt with black and yellow, then use a permanent marker or puffy paints to write "Hip-Bee" across the chest. Make a bee pin to wear, using black and yellow craft foam for the bee's body, white craft foam for the wings, and a black pom-pom and black pipe cleaners for the head and antennae. Assemble the pieces and glue them to a straight craft pin.
- Spruce up your home with some decorative, functional bee crafts. For instance, use bees as inspiration for some colorful refrigerator magnets. Simply take a clothespin and paint or color it with yellow and black stripes, and then insert a scrunched coffee filter into the clothespin for the wings, adding a black pipe cleaner for the antennae. Stick on a self-adhesive strip of magnet and your bee is ready to live on the fridge. For a more elegant way to bring the bee theme into your home, pick up some colored beeswax sheets and wick from your local crafting store to make some bee-inspired candles.
- Keep the kids entertained on a rainy day with some inexpensive bee toy crafts. For instance, make some cute bee finger puppets using a rolled-up tube of yellow craft foam to make the body, white craft foam for the wings, and a black pom-pom and black pipe cleaner for the head and antennae. Use a glue gun to attach the wings and head to the yellow foam body, draw some black stripes with marker, and you're ready to play.
- Make your garden a bee-friendly zone by creating some decorative bee-themed garden ornaments. For instance, turn a terra cotta pot into a cute bee garden ornament by turning the pot upside down and painting it with yellow and black stripes and a smiling face. For an even easier version of that craft idea, search for some smooth stones that are already in your garden and paint them to look like bees; after they've dried, return them to the garden for a charming decorative touch. You can also make plant pokes cutting and painting foam or cardboard to resemble a bee; simply attach a piece of sturdy wire or a wooden craft stick to insert the poke into the soil.
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