Our growing collection of paper straw insect puppets would not be complete without some beautiful queen bees.
Preschoolers and kids of all ages will have a blast making their own bee puppets.
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Supplies needed for paper straw puppets
Instructions for making bee puppets
1.
Print out template and cut out all pieces
Download and print out thepuppet template.
Cut out each of the pieces of the template.
Start at the bottom of the body in the square with the circle in the middle of it.
Fold it backward along the dashed line.
Dont worry about the long end hanging off of the body right now.
This is to create the bee head in a later step.
Align them all together and punch a hole in the center of them.
Then glue them on the bee body with a glue stick, creating a yellow-black striped pattern.
The top of the body will hang off the straw quite a bit.
See the pictures above as a guide.
Glue bee body down in the center of bee wings
Turn your bee puppet face down.
Flatten the first and second accordion folds on the body and add glue to the middle of them.
Glue the bee body down in the center of the bee wings.
Create and attach antennae
Cut out a small black rectangle piece for antennae.
Cut down the center of the rectangle to make two separate antennae.
Add glue to the bottom of the rectangle antennae and glue it on the back of the bee head.
Add eyes, draw a smile
Add a googly eyes on the face of your bee craft.
Then use a black marker to draw a cute little smile on your bee.
Now its time for play!
Hold the bottom of the paper straw and have fun flying and fluttering your bee around.
