DIY Cork Bee Craft
Let’s welcome spring with this adorable DIY Cork Bee Craft! This recyclable craft is so simple and is a great way to repurpose those wine corks! You can even turn these cork bees into an adorable mobile!
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Note: If you love crafting with recyclable materials, check out our wine cork broccoli figurines, plastic cup ladybugs, tin can pencil holder and recycled tin candy dishes!
Why We Love this Bee Craft
- Trash to treasure. We love transforming our recyclables into new, creative projects.
- Fine motor skills. Our cork bee craft allows kids to put developing painting, coloring, cutting and gluing skills to good use.
- Simple supplies. You will likely have many of the supplies for this bee craft at home already!
✂️ Supplies
Notets on Supplies:
- 4-6 wine corks
- Construction paper– ideally black
- Acrylic paint– yellow
- Foam paint brushes
- Black sharpie
- String
- Scissors- We love these kid-friendly scissors
- Hot glue gun
- Popsicle sticks- optional, if you turn your bee craft into a mobile!
🧶 A Honeybee Mobile!
We decided to fasten our cork honeybees to a popsicle stick with string to make a hanging mobile. We thought this was a fun way to make our honeybees actually “fly.” This step is totally optional but worthwhile if you are looking for some adorable spring or summer decorations! My daughter also loved to make the bees dangle and dance.
📝 Instructions
Step 1: Make the Honeybee’s body: Paint wine corks with yellow acrylic paint. Let corks dry completely. Use a black Sharpie to draw 3-6 black lines around the body of the cork.
Step 2: Add bee’s face and antennae: Use the same black Sharpie to draw eyes, a nose and mouth on the flat base of the cork. Cut out two thin strips of black paper for the honeybees antennae. Glue strips above the honeybee’s face. Note: I folded down the bottoms of the antenna and glued the folded part of the strips to the cork to best secure the strips to the cork.
Step 3: Add bee’s wings: Cut out two small pieces of white string (about 5-6 inches long). Fold each piece of string in half and glue the ends together and to each side of the honeybee’s body.
If you’d like to turn you cork bee craft into a honeybee mobile, simply glue your honeybees to long pieces of string and fasten them to a popsicle stick.
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🐝 Cork Honey Bee Craft
Supplies
- 4-6 wine corks
- construction paper (black )
- acrylic paint (yellow)
- Foam paint brushes
- Sharpie (black )
- String
- Scissors
- hot glue gun
Instructions
- Honeybee's body: Paint wine corks with yellow acrylic paint. Let corks dry completely. Use a black Sharpie to draw 3-6 black lines around the body of the cork.
- Honeybee's face and antennae: Use the same black Sharpie to draw eyes, a nose and mouth on the flat base of the cork. Cut out two thin strips of black paper for the honeybees antennae. Glue strips above the honeybee's face. Note: I folded down the bottoms of the antenna and glued the folded part of the strips to the cork to best secure the strips to the cork.
- Honeybee's wings: Cut out two small pieces of white string (about 5-6 inches long). Fold each piece of string in half and glue the ends together and to each side of the honeybee's body.
- Optional: If you'd like to turn you cork honeybee craft into a honeybee mobile, simply glue your honeybees to long pieces of string and fasten them to a popsicle stick.
