Among the Bees: Early Years Nature Journal & Activity Pack 🐝

Discover the fascinating world of bees through nature, science and play. 🌼🐝

A beautiful nature-study and play-based printable pack created for childminders, early years settings and families, designed to help little explorers understand bees, pollination and life inside the hive through meaningful hands-on learning.

This isn’t just a collection of worksheets. It combines real-life science, outdoor exploration, vocabulary, early maths, creativity and open-ended play, with activities linked to the EYFS and designed to nurture curiosity and a love of the natural world.

✨ Inside the pack you’ll find:

• Anatomy of a Honey Bee labelled diagram, exploring the head, thorax, abdomen, wings, legs, antennae, eyes and tongue
• Life Cycle of a Honey Bee, following egg → larva → pupa → adult bee
• Inside the Hive, discovering where honey and pollen are stored, what worker bees do and where the queen lays her eggs
• Pollinator Hunt featuring bees, bumblebees, butterflies, hoverflies, moths, beetles, ladybirds and wasps
• Bee Observation Journal for recording real-life discoveries outdoors
• Build a Hive open-ended construction challenge
• Honeycomb Patterns for early maths and pattern recognition
• Bubble Wrap Honeycomb creative art activity
• Bee vocabulary cards, including queen, worker and drone
• vocabulary and communication opportunities
• nature exploration and observation
• maths and literacy learning
• creative and purposeful play
• EYFS-linked learning throughout

There are also lovely prompts encouraging children to explore nature, play with purpose, grow vocabulary and make connections.

🌿 Perfect for:
spring and summer learning, World Bee Day, garden and meadow adventures, pollinator topics, nature tables, child-led investigations and bee-themed continuous provision.

Created by Roxanne’s Little Explorers and inspired by real outdoor early-years practice.

💛 Instant digital download
Print at home or in your setting and use again and again.

Please note: This is a digital PDF product. No physical item will be posted.

£8