The world has woken up to the importance of bees in our ecosystem – and we’re glad! Let’s spread more awareness with an Origami bee craft!

As humans, we tend to think about how something can benefit us before we think about what we can do. This applies to Nature too; we’re thinking of ways to extract medicines from herbs, or leather from hide.

Now if someone were to think about what bees give us, the first answer would be honey. While that’s true, there’s something else that bees give us, something much more important.

They fight climate change!

So how can something so tiny tackle such a huge problem? We realize that many people aren’t aware of this.

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How do bees fight climate change?

Without bees, flowering plants in grasslands wouldn’t be able to reproduce, and they’d eventually die. This would drastically affect the grassland ecosystem, which is responsible for holding carbon below the ground within their deep roots. It’s this carbon that acts as a second line of defense against changing weather patterns, so when that carbon disappears, we become more vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

Ergo, bees fight climate change!

It’s no wonder that bees are spoken of quite highly in many holy books; they’re that amazing! Since they’re so cool, we think they deserve celebrating, and we’ve got an Origami Bee Craft for Kids!

Origami Bee Craft for Kids

Supplies required:

Colored craft paper
Googly eyes
Scissors
Craft glue
Sharpies

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How to make the Origami Bee Craft:

1. Select lightweight craft paper to make the Origami bee craft. We need two colors: one in yellow or light orange and one in white. Cut the paper into squares of size 12 cm.

2. Take the yellow square paper and fold it in half diagonally, along both sides. Unfold both folds.

3. Take the bottom right corner and fold it inward to the point of intersection of both diagonals.

4. Repeat the previous step with the adjacent corner.

5. Repeat the same step with the remaining corners so that all four corners now join in the center and you have a new square.

6. Take the top left corner of this new square and fold it inward to reach the center of the square. Repeat this step with the bottom right corner.

7. Take the bottom left corner and fold it in by one centimetre.

8. Turn the pattern to the other side so the folds aren’t visible. This is the base of your Origami bee craft, where the flat edge is the front of the bee and the pointy end is the back. Keep it aside.

9. Let’s move on to the white square paper. Fold it in half diagonally, along both sides. Unfold both folds.

10. Take the top left corner of the square and fold it inward to reach the center of the square. Repeat this step with the bottom right corner.

11. Take the flat edge created by the previous fold and fold it upward so you now get half the original pattern. This is now a trapezoid shape.

12. Hold the left corner of the current pattern and fold it up from the midpoint of the long edge of the trapezoid by 45 degrees.

13. Fold this new flap inward once more.

14. Unfold both folds.

15. Carefully open the left side (like a pocket) along the last 2 creases.

16. Flatten this open part along the rest of the pattern.

17. Repeat steps 12-16 on the other side.

18. Turn the pattern to the other side. Your Origami bee craft now looks like a boat with two sails.

19. Fold in the inner corner of the left ‘sail’ by half a centimetre.

20. Take the leftmost corner of the ‘boat’ shape and fold it in by half a centimetre.

21. Fold in the top corner of the left ‘sail’ by half a centimetre.

22. Repeat steps 19-21 on the right ‘sail’.

23. Push the left sail slightly to the right so that it overlaps the right sail a little. The bee’s wings are ready.

24. Bring back the yellow base of your Origami bee craft. Use a pencil to draw stripes on bee’s body and stick the wings near the top edge of the bee.

25. Use a black sharpie to fill in the pencil line. Stick a googly eye towards the flat edge of the bee and draw a smile with a black Sharpie.

That’s it – you’ve finished making your Origami bee craft! Go ahead and make as many bees as you like!

Aren’t these little busy bees adorable? This can encourage kids to learn about the parts of a bee, and how each part has a very important, very specific function. It’ll help us appreciate these little creatures a lot more, and maybe we can take steps to ensure that their populations don’t die.

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