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Description

St Valentine is the patron saint of Bee Keepers

Visitor - Local Beekeeper comes to give a talk on bees with a hive, combs equipment etc

Beavers can try a quick taste of honey

Honeybee, Honeybee Buzz Game/ Create Bee hats

Resources

Friendly local Bee keeper

Jar of honey with enough wooden stirrers/spoons for each Beaver to try some

Honey Bee Game - Paper, scissors, selotape, double-sided tape, chalk, 6-8 chairs, lots of craft pompoms (The Range do a very large bag with about 800 hundred for about

Instructions

Honeybee Honeybee Buzz Game

1st each Beaver creates their bee hat. A simple crown paper headband on to which 2 long thin strips of paper are curled and attached to band to look like antenna.
(Beavers can decorate/personalize headband while waiting for whole group to finish)
Just before game starts leaders attached a piece of double-sided sticky tape approx 4 in long across to the front of each headband

Beavers are split into 4 even groups and each group waits in a corner of room, these are the teams hives and I drew a chalk line to indicate each hive area
6-8 Chairs are dotted around the middle of the room and with piles of pompoms placed on their seat (These are the flowers with nectar on)

Aim of the game -to collect nectar for your hive

1 beaver from each hive has to buzz (proper buzzing action with hands needed), flies to any flower and stick their head in to the pompom pile (no hands) to collect the pompom nectar on their heads. They then buzz back to the group and tag the next Beavers to go and so on. Each Beaver removes their nectar from their hats and its collected in a pile in their corner to be counted at end of game.

Beavers are encouraged to buzz fly or they are sent back to the hive empty handed and extra points (pompoms) can be given at the end to teams who do great bee wiggle dances as the game goes along.

Leaders decide when the game time ends and do a count down to get bees back to hives. Each team counts up their nectar, most pompoms wins.

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