Spring is here, and  if you’re a honey-lover, this should make you excited! We’ve got a little DIY toy for your kiddos – a Tic Tac Toe with Bees Vs Flowers! This is an incredibly cute craft and makes for a lovely gift too!

Super Easy Clay Bee Tic Tac Toe craft  for kids

Materials:

• Cold Porcelain clay – See our Clay Penguin craft  post for the recipe.
• Yellow , Black, white, pink, green, Brown acrylic paint
• Brush
• Clay modeling tools
• A scale to measure
• Rolling pin
• Vaseline to grease your palms.

Making the Bees:

1. Add some yellow acrylic paint and knead the clay well.
2. Roll the yellow into a cylindrical shape.
3. Add black acrylic paint to a fresh batch of clay and roll it into a snake shape.
4. Roll 2 rounds of the black clay around the bee.
5. Place the eyes on the bees.
6. Add white acrylic to a fresh batch of clay. Make two balls and press to form wings. Press on top of the bee.

Making the Flowers:

1. Mix & knead some pink acrylic paint to a fresh batch of clay. For each flower, we will need 5 mini balls of clay.
2. Mix & knead yellow acrylic paint into a fresh clay. Roll a small ball equal sized to the pink ones.
3. Get them closer and press to form a flower.
4. Using a clay modeling tool, add a grove to the mid of the each petal and some dots on the yellow center.
5. Make at least 5 flowers and 5 bees to play the game.

Making the Tic Tac Toe Board:

1. Mix and knead green paint in a fresh cold porcelain clay mixture
2. Roll into a thick 1.5 cm circle
3. Measure and cut into a 9 x 9 cm thick square
4. Mix some brown paint and create the grid as shown in the image below.

Let the board, bees and flowers dry for at least 2 or 3 days. Your very own bees n’ flowers Tic Tac Toe game is ready! Pick a side – flowers or bees – who will win?