Clothespin & Pipe Cleaner Bees – Quick & Easy Craft For Kids
How cute is this bee craft? This bee craft is cute, easy, and great for kids of all ages: toddlers, preschoolers, even elementary or kindergarten aged kids. This bee craft is great at home or in the classroom. Look how cute they are! Plus, this bee craft is budget-friendly.
Bee Craft
Let’s do a bee craft today with kids!
If you are looking for a quick & easy craft for kids of almost any age, you will love these simple clothespeg and pipe cleaner buzzy bees that kids can make in a matter of minutes.
All you need are some wooden clothespegs, pipe cleaners, googly eyes and some craft foam cut into wing shapes.
Video: Simple and Fun Clothespin Bee Craft
This 5 minute craft is also a no glue craft! This easy craft is an ideal bee craft for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners and a quick grade school idea.
No mess, minimum prep and clean-up.
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Supplies Needed To Make This Bee-Utiful Buzzy Bee Craft
- Wooden clothes pegs
- Pipe cleaners
- Googly Eyes
- Scissors
- Craft Glue
- Crafting Foam
How To Make This Buzzing Good Bee Craft
Step 1
Start by inserting the craft foam wings into the peg slot.
Step 2
Then just wind the pipe cleaners around the peg, above and below the wings to keep it in position.
Step 3
Add on the googly eyes – large eyes make the bugs look goofy!!! and we like goofy in this house!!
Step 4
And finally just wind a small pipe cleaner around the neck and up at the back of the head for the antennae – curl the ends of the antennae around a pencil or knitting needle so there are no ‘hurty’ sharp ends on the pipe cleaner.
Our Experience With This Bee Craft
I love nothing more than when my 8yo daughter says ‘cool’ when she see’s what I am up to and is inspired to roll up a chair and start making alongside me… taking the craft further to her own little world. In her own gorgeous girly way she decided to make the queen bee, with wool fuzz hair (she brushed craft glue onto the head and dipped it in some wool clippings I hoarded after making pop poms some time back), pipe cleaner handies and a pink bead pot of honey. Love it xx
Clothespin & Pipe Cleaner Bees – Quick & Easy Craft For Kids
This bee craft is not only fun, but easy and great for kids of all ages. It's budget-friendly and a buzzing good time!
Materials
- Wooden clothes pegs
- Pipe cleaners
- Googly Eyes
- Scissors
- Craft Glue
- Crafting Foam
Instructions
- Start by inserting the craft foam wings into the peg slot.
- Then just wind the pipe cleaners around the peg, above and below the wings to keep it in position.
- Add on the googly eyes – large eyes make the bugs look goofy!!! and we like goofy in this house!!
- And finally just wind a small pipe cleaner around the neck and up at the back of the head for the antennae – curl the ends of the antennae around a pencil or knitting needle so there are no ‘hurty’ sharp ends on the pipe cleaner.
More Clothespin Crafts From Kids Activities Blog
- Check out these other wooden clothespin activities and creative clothespin crafts for even more ideas.
- Clothespins are great for all kinds of things — butterfly goldfish snacks, DIY gifts, and more! This easy project is one of our favorites.
- This happy sunshine clothespin craft is also pretty awesome as is this clothespin bat magnet.
- You can also make an extra large clothespin crocodile craft, and these amazing clothespin pirate dolls!
How did your bee craft turn out?
This craft is perfect for my 3yo’s birthday party craft table, thank you for sharing! Can you explain how you attached the eyes without glue? Looks like the ones I have do not have adhesive on the back, do yours?
Hi, Rachel! I have seen googly eyes with sticker backings! You just peel the back off (like a sticker) and stick them on! You can also use glue dots.