Nursery World - Bee on your knee

By Georgina Smith, nursery nurse, Gillas Lane Nursery Unit, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear Use a bee to help the children develop awareness of their own bodies.

Use a bee to help the children develop awareness of their own bodies.

Resources

Cardboard tubes, buttons, glue, cellophane, yellow and black paint.

Step by step

* Paint the cardboard tubes in yellow and black stripes to resemble a bee.

* When dry, cut out cellophane wings and attach them to the body of the bee.

* Glue on two small buttons for the bee's eyes.

* Place your fingers in the bee and fly it about, landing it on different parts of the body as you say the following rhyme, (changing the body part each time).

A bee, sat on my knee, and said Buzz, buzz buzz.

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