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Kindness Bees Craft for Social Emotional Learning

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Inside: Use these kindness bees crafts to help teach social emotional learning and encourage kids to bee kind. 


With their pollination skills, bees are the literal building blocks of this Earth. And with their rapid decline, we often hear that we need to be kind to the bees. 

So bee crafts are the perfect addition to spring and Earth Day Celebrations… which is a great time to also focus on social emotional learning. 

During the spring we use this Flower Kind or Unkind Sort Game, this Spring Kindness  Challenge, and this I Love Earth Emergent Reader. 

But bees also perfect for social emotional curriculum because we can use a bee craft and a good positioned pun to encourage kids to “bee kind” and “bee sweet” and “bee themselves.” 

These Kindness Bees Crafts are an adorable way to teach social emotional learning and kindness.

Kindness Crafts to Make Kindness Fun

We love making kindness crafts to help teach social emotional learning and make it more hands on and fun. 

Related: 8 Reasons to Teach Social Emotional Learning 

We make these Compliment Suns in the summer to encourage kids to give compliments to one another. 

Use these compliment suns to help kids learn how to give classmates and friends compliments. It's the perfect kindness craft and friendship craft.

We make these Friendship Flowers in the spring for the same reason. 

This kindness flower craft is perfect for kids to make for their friends by sharing kind words. This kindness craft is also a great friendship craft. #kindnesscraft #kindnesscrafts #friendshipcraft #friendship #kindnessactivities #kind #coffeeandcarpool

We go “old school” and make these Shrinky Dink kindness keychains. 

Make friendship gifts that are meaningful and perfect to give as gifts to friends. These friendship gifts for kids friends are fun because they're shrinky dink keychains. #shrinkydink #crafts #diygifts #diycrafts #friendship #friendshipgifts

We encourage siblings to make these sibling kindness bracelets. 

Build up your kids' sibling relationships and help curb sibling rivalry with these sibling crafts for kids they can make together or give as a gift. Sibling activities can be fun when they do them together for sibling goals #siblingrelationships #siblingrivalry #siblinggoals #siblings #raisingkindsiblings

We make these Kind Heart, Happy Hearts Crafts to encourage/celebrate when we see kind acts. 

And we make these Kindness Bees. 

How to Use these Kindness Bees:

1. Use the version you wish: tracing template or printable template (download below).

These Kindness Bees Crafts are an adorable way to teach social emotional learning and kindness.

2. If you use the tracing template, print one copy on cardstock and cut out each piece to create templates. Trace each piece on construction paper (the body on yellow, the stripes on black, and the wings and stinger on white or gray).

3. If you use the printable templates, print one color copy for each child on cardstock.

4. Children will cut out the shapes. 

These Kindness Bees Crafts are an adorable way to teach social emotional learning and kindness.

5. Glue the pieces to create a Kindness Bee, but wait on the wings!

6. If you’re using the tracing template bees, glue on the words or write the words. If they write them in pencil, trace it for them in black sharpie so it “pops.” 

These Kindness Bees Crafts are an adorable way to teach social emotional learning and kindness.

7. Trim the black strips once they’re glued on so they don’t hang over the edge of the bee’s body. Remind children to make sure the words aren’t hanging off the edge of the bee or they’ll get accidentally cut off.  Then, glue on the wings! 

These Kindness Bees Crafts are an adorable way to teach social emotional learning and kindness.

8. Using a black marker, make an eye dot.

These Kindness Bees Crafts are an adorable way to teach social emotional learning and kindness.

9. Brainstorm ways to “Bee Kind” and “Bee Sweet” and “Bee Yourself” to build up your social emotional curriculum.  

If you need ideas, you can read this sweet story, Bee Kind.

BEE kind: Simple ways to show kindness and spread love

10. To connect this craft to creative writing, kids can write/draw and dictate how they can “Bee Kind” or how they can “Bee Sweet” using one of the four writing prompt sheets.

These Kindness Bees Crafts are an adorable way to teach social emotional learning and kindness.       These Kindness Bees Crafts are an adorable way to teach social emotional learning and kindness.

Download the Kindness Bees here. 

These Kindness Bees Crafts are an adorable way to teach social emotional learning and kindness.

 

These Kindness Bees Crafts are an adorable way to teach social emotional learning and kindness.


Use these compliment suns to help kids learn how to give classmates and friends compliments. It's the perfect kindness craft and friendship craft.

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I’m Nicole and I am a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and I mostly survive on strong coffee.

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