This week, we celebrated World Bee Day.
We started by playing an active lodge game called ‘Bee Pollination’ and also had an adult team.
A big thank you to Owl for organising a fun and interesting session. Also a big thank you to the parent helpers who came along with us.
We then completed a lodge wordsearch involving lots of ‘Bee’ words and learnt some facts about bees.
- Did you know that bees have 5 eyes? Two big ones, one each side of their head, and three tiny ones right in the middle of their forehead to look at the sky.
- Did you know that bees don’t have noses? Instead they smell things using their antennae and their knees! Imagine smelling your dinner with your kneecaps.
- Did you know that bees actually have hair growing on their eyeballs. It helps them catch pollen when they land on flowers.
- Do you know how bees make honey? A worker bee sucks up sweet nectar from a flower, stores it in a special ‘honey stomach’, flies back to the hive and then… barfs it into another bee’s mouth! They pass it along until it turns into the honey we put on our toast.
After this, we made bees out of woodland materials.
