Adorable Bee Handprint Craft for Kids (Free Template)

If you’re looking for a cute and easy bee craft for kids, you’ve come to the right place! This handprint bee craft is absolutely adorable and it’s so fun for kids to make.

All you need to do is download of our free printable bee template, gather up a few materials that you likely already have on hand, and you’re ready to make your craft!

This is a great craft for toddlers, preschoolers and elementary aged kids with varying levels of assistance depending on how old the child is.

My kids loved making this craft and were so delighted with their cute little finished bee!

Read on for instructions for this fun and easy craft.

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Bee Handprint Craft

Materials for bee handprint craft

Materials

  • Bee printable (download for free below)
  • Yellow tissue paper or construction paper
  • Black paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Googly eyes (*optional- you can use the paper ones included in the printable)
  • Black pipe cleaner

Instructions

Download and print out the bee template (available for download at the bottom of this page). Cardstock will make the bee sturdier, but the craft works perfectly fine with regular printer paper as well.

Cut out small pieces of yellow tissue paper (about 1 x 1 inch squares).

Yellow tissue paper cut into small squares next to bee printable

Cover the bee’s head with a layer of glue and begin sticking pieces of crinkled tissue paper to it.

Gluing tissue paper squares to bee's face

Next, add glue to each strip on the bee’s body one by one and cover with crinkled tissue paper.

Gluing tissue paper onto bee's stripes

Once you’re finished with the tissue paper, cut out around the outline of the bee.

Cut out bee craft

Take your black paper and cut out the outline of your child’s hand.

Tracing a child's handprint on black paper

Cut out their handprint and glue it to the back of the bee’s body so that the fingers stick out like wings.

Glue handprint to back of bee craft to look like wings

Cut a small piece off the end of your pipe cleaner for the bee’s mouth. Glue the googly eyes and mouth onto the bee’s face. If you don’t have googly eyes, you can use the paper eyes included in the template.

Bee craft with googly eyes and pipe cleaner mouth added

Take the rest of your pipe cleaner and fold it into a V, making a circle at each end.

Bee antennae made out of pipe cleaner next to bee craft

Use tape to secure the base of the pipe cleaner antennae to the back of the bee’s head.

Now your craft is complete! And isn’t it the cutest little bee you ever did see?

Completed bee handprint craft for kids
Bee handprint craft

Bee Handprint Craft

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Active Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes

This adorable bee handprint craft is so fun and easy for kids to make!

Materials

  • Bee printable
  • Yellow tissue paper or construction paper
  • Black paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Googly eyes (*optional- you can use the paper ones included in the printable)
  • Black pipe cleaner

Instructions

  1. Download and print out the bee template.
  2. Cut out small pieces of yellow tissue paper (about 1 x 1 inch squares).
  3. Cover the bee's head with a layer of glue and begin sticking pieces of crinkled tissue paper to it.
  4. Add glue to each strip on the bee's body one by one and cover with crinkled tissue paper.
  5. Cut out around the outline of the bee.
  6. Take your black paper and cut out the outline of your child's hand.
  7. Cut out the handprint and glue the base of the handprint to the back of the bee's body so that the fingers stick out like wings.
  8. Cut out a small piece off the end of your pipe cleaner for the mouth. Glue the googly eyes and mouth onto the bee's face (or use the paper eyes included in the template).
  9. Take the rest of your pipe cleaner and fold it into a V, making a circle at each end. Use tape to secure the base of the pipe cleaner antennae to the back of the bee's head.
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