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Learn about bees through play with these kids activities.

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Fizz

I created this reuseable gingerbread house as I was sick of making a real one for the kids to just be like “eww its too spicy”. They wanted the joy of building and decorating it and I wanted to be able to use it year after year.

Simple Counting

Using a 10s frame and some number tokens (or even just write it on the reuseable mat) kiddos can search through the senssory base for items and count them out building their early numeracy skills. Got older kids? Make it addittion or even multiplication.

Pasta Honeycomb

Did you know you can hot glue pasta to make diy honeycombs for your sensory play?

Beehive Sensory Kit Beehive Sensory Kit
Beehive Sensory Kit
$29.99

Teach kids why bees matter through calming, hands-on sensory play. This ready-to-use Bee Sensory Kit supports emotional regulation, focus and screen-free learning.

✔️ Mixed textured sensory bases

✔️ Beehive & loose parts included

✔️ Helps calm big feelings

✔️ Ready-to-pour kids activity, jar included!

Perfect for busy parents, educators and early learning settings wanting low-prep sensory play that actually works. 🐝✨

Bee Play Essentials

Beehive Beehive Beehive
Beehive
from $9.99

These 3d printed bee hives are the perfect addition to your bee theme play. Fill with fizz for some amazing potion play, use with sensory bases or even playdough.

✔️ Perfect for sensory play or decorating with playdough

✔️ Add them into you kids toy kitchen for some bakery imaginative play

✔️ Designed by Liz and made in Australia.

Down The Bush Track, Little Bee by Sarah Jane Lightfoot Down The Bush Track, Little Bee by Sarah Jane Lightfoot
Down The Bush Track, Little Bee by Sarah Jane Lightfoot
$25.99

Travel around Australia with Little Bee on a search for new friends! From a beautiful blue-banded bee in the south to a sweet sugarbag bee in the north, follow Little Bee and friends as they share the wonders of the Australian landscape.

From the bestselling author-illustrator of Down the Road, Little Bee comes this glorious picture-book introduction to the native bees of Australia.

✔️Hardcover

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Bee Potion Kit | Sensory Play Kit for Kids Bee Potion Kit | Sensory Play Kit for Kids
Bee Potion Kit | Sensory Play Kit for Kids
$39.99

Turn an ordinary afternoon into a bubbling bee adventure with an easy, hands-on potion kit that encourages creativity, curiosity and screen-free play.

🐝 Unique reusable beehive that bubbles with fizz

💧 Just add water to start the reaction

✨ Encourages imaginative, sensory and cause-and-effect play

🌼 Includes florals, bio glitter and shimmering Cosmos potion liquid

🤍 Handmade and packed with care by Liz in rural Queensland

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Books To Explore Together

Down the Road Little Bee

Cover of a children's book titled 'When Santa Got Stuck in a Gum Tree,' featuring illustrated animals such as a koala, an owl, a squirrel, a sloth, a raccoon, a bear, and a bird, with Santa hanging upside down from the tree.

When Santa Got Stuck in a Gum Tree

A young girl and her dog looking up at a cloudy sky with a distant rainstorm, with a Christmas tree hanging from a tree branch in the foreground, and a large Christmas star at the end of a string. The book title reads "All I Want for Christmas is Rain" and the authors are Cori Brooke and Megan Forward.
A young girl and her dog looking up at a cloudy sky with a distant rainstorm, with a Christmas tree hanging from a tree branch in the foreground, and a large Christmas star at the end of a string. The book title reads "All I Want for Christmas is Rain" and the authors are Cori Brooke and Megan Forward.

All I Want for Christmas is Rain

Community Inspiration Gallery

Bathroom sink filled with pink fizzy bath water, decorated with holiday-themed ornaments including a green spiral Christmas tree, candy canes, and small holiday figures, along with a gingerbread house-shaped bath toy.
Decorative gingerbread house with a heart-shaped window, surrounded by Christmas ornaments, a merry elf figurine, and a reindeer figure, set on a green base with holiday decorations in the background.
A decorative holiday scene with a gingerbread house, small figurines of Santa Claus, a snowman, and a Christmas tree, all arranged on a bed of white material resembling snow inside a round container. There are also small cut-out wooden trees and gingerbread cookies with smiling faces and red bows.
A gingerbread house with a cream frosting roof, set on a blue surface resembling snow, with shredded white frosting around it, possibly part of a craft or holiday display.
Decorative gingerbread house with white icing, candies, and gingerbread cookies, a hand decorating the roof, green Christmas tree figurine, container of frosting, and gingerbread house packaging.

Easy Christmas Craft Activities

Guide on how to make a Christmas tree using crumpled tissue paper and pom poms, with decorations including stockings, holly, and a gift box, along with a list of book recommendations for Christmas trees.
Guide on how to make a Christmas tree using crumpled tissue paper and pom poms, with decorations including stockings, holly, and a gift box, along with a list of book recommendations for Christmas trees.
A Christmas decoration craft project with instructions. It features Christmas stockings, holly, and gifts hanging from a string. The instructions detail how to create a Santa hat snowman using red paper, cotton balls, and a paper plate, with a small image of a snowman made from cotton balls and paper elements.
A Christmas decoration craft project with instructions. It features Christmas stockings, holly, and gifts hanging from a string. The instructions detail how to create a Santa hat snowman using red paper, cotton balls, and a paper plate, with a small image of a snowman made from cotton balls and paper elements.
A holiday craft instructions page for making pinecone ornaments with images of children attaching decorations to pinecones. The page has red, green, and white holiday-themed decorations at the top and step-by-step instructions.
A holiday craft instructions page for making pinecone ornaments with images of children attaching decorations to pinecones. The page has red, green, and white holiday-themed decorations at the top and step-by-step instructions.
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Sensory Play

Sensory play supports fine motor skills, emotional regulation, language development and imaginative exploration through tactile, open-ended play.

A holiday-themed decorative scene in a white bowl includes small animal figurines, a Santa figure in a red sleigh, and natural elements such as wood logs, stones, pine cones, and twigs. The background shows a colorful tablecloth and a green, leaf-like decoration.
A person wearing a blue pajama top with daisies is squeezing colorful slime onto a gingerbread house craft in a white bowl. The slime is red and turquoise. The bowl is placed on a multicolored quilt.
Holiday-themed sensory or slime activity with a gingerbread house, Christmas decorations, and small figurines on a divided surface with red and green colors.
A white bowl filled with red, green, and white Peewees, Christmas-themed stickers, and a scored sheet of paper with numbered circles and Christmas images on a wooden table.
Children playing with slime in a white bowl on a colorful tablecloth.

Potion Play

Calming hands-on play filled with fizzing, pouring & discovery.

Child creating colourful potion reactions during a NAIDOC Week inspired sensory play activity using natural elements and hands-on exploration.
A decorative display featuring a gingerbread house, a green cone-shaped foam Christmas tree, dried orange slices, pink foam soap, and a colorful flower-shaped spoon on a tray with soap bubbles and pink foam.
Close-up of an ice cream bar with strawberry and chocolate flavor in a green wrapper. The top of the ice cream has a foam-like texture with visible seeds and strawberry pieces.
Decorative champagne glass filled with pink bubbly and foam, surrounded by Christmas ornaments and beads, with green foliage in the background.
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