Bee Life Cycle Activities

What’s included in this Bee Life Cycle Activities Pack?

• 18 Photo Cards: Real life pictures of the stages of a bee’s life, its home and more.
• 17 Fact Posters with Photos: Including honey bee eggs, larvae, pupas, worker bees, drone bees, queen bees, hives, food, predators, beeswax, beekeeping, bees, pollination, compound eyes, endangered, bee highway, what bees give us.
• Parts of a Bee: Two one-page labeled posters (one simple and one more complex) with accompanying cut and paste labeling worksheets. 
• Bee Life Cycle: Five bee life cycle diagrams of varying complexity and styles plus eight cut and paste life cycle activities.
• Making comparisons: Three worksheets for students to compare bees with ants including Venn diagrams.
• All About Bees: Two recording charts: 1. What bees can do, have, and are, and 2. What I Know, What I Think About and What I Learned. 
• Sorting Activity: Students sort the pictures by deciding if it is a bee or is not a bee.
• Bee Fact Mini Book: Students create a mini book, All About Bees, where they record what bees look like, what they eat, where they live, and two more facts.
• Bee Life Cycle Mini Book: Students create this mini book by describing each stage of a bee’s life cycle on the lines provided.
• Vocabulary: Including a vocabulary tracing worksheet with pictures, 3-part vocabulary cards, 3-part vocab, picture and fact cards, 
• Math Activities: Bee-themed skip counting puzzles, size sequencing cards featuring bees, a cut and paste missing number counting activity, addition and subtraction worksheets with bee-themed pictures, count and clip cards, number cards 1 to 10 with bee-related pictures, and a count the objects worksheet.
• Picture Puzzles: Cute three-piece picture puzzles showing a bee at different stages of its life cycle.
• Alphabet Activities: Uppercase and lowercase alphabet cards featuring bees and larvae and Do-A-Dot letter hunt worksheets.
• Fine Motor Skills Activities: A playdough mat with steps to make a bee, step-by-step visual instructions to draw a bee, and coloring pages with vocabulary words to trace.

This Bee Life Cycle Activities Pack are perfect for the following learning settings:

⭐ As part of your morning work during a unit on bees or insects

⭐ As math or literacy center activities during spring or a bee unit

⭐ During science lessons when studying bees or insects

How to prepare this Bee Life Cycle Activities Pack?

✂️ Simply print and laminate each component, if desired. 

✂️ Both color and black and white formats are included where possible to suit your individual printing needs. 

Suggested materials:

✏️ Coloring materials

✏️ Scissors

✏️ Glue

✏️ Playdough

✏️ Stapler

✏️ Pegs

✏️ Bingo markers

✏️ Dry erase markers, if laminating activity sheets or placing in dry erase pockets