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🐝 Letter of the Week: H is for Honeybee

June 18, 2025 Kylie Tuosto

Featuring our $5 Honeybee Sensory Table Printable Pack

This week’s theme is all about sweet learning! “H is for Honeybee” gives toddlers and preschoolers a chance to explore nature, color sorting, and early literacy while learning about one of the most important insects on Earth. Our Honeybee Sensory Table Printable Pack transforms your IKEA Flisat table into a buzzing bee station.

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🛒 What’s in the $5 Honeybee Printable Pack

The Honeybee Sensory Table Printable Pack includes:

  • A pastel yellow and honeycomb-patterned awning, banner, flag, and bee-themed signs like “H is for Honeybee” and “Busy Bees at Work”

  • 2–3 printable worksheets: letter H tracing, honeycomb color sorting, and “Parts of a Bee” vocabulary sheet

  • Designed for IKEA Flisat sensory tables but adaptable to any bin-based setup

26 Letter Printable Pack

🧰 Materials You’ll Need

  • Honeybee Printable Pack from the shop

  • IKEA Flisat table or any sensory bin

  • Sensory base: yellow rice, dried corn, split peas, or chickpeas

  • Wooden or plastic bees, honeycomb shapes, felt flowers

  • Small scoops, jars, tongs, or hexagon containers

  • Optional: clear tubes or bottles for “nectar” transfer

  • Laminated worksheets or dry-erase sleeves

Bee Keeper Play Setup

🍯 How to Set Up Your Honeybee Sensory Bin

  1. Decorate your Flisat table with the honeycomb awning, bee flag, and “H is for Honeybee” sign.

  2. Fill the bin with a golden yellow sensory base.

  3. Add pretend bees, flowers, and honeycomb shapes for scooping and sorting.

  4. Include the “Parts of a Bee” vocabulary page and letter H tracing sheet.

  5. Create mini honey collection stations using scoops and clear jars.

  6. Let your child scoop, sort, buzz, and explore like a little pollinator!

Full Activity Guide

🎯 Learning Objectives by Age Group

  • 6–12 mo: Sensory exploration with color and texture

  • 1–2 yrs: Color recognition, scooping practice

  • 2–3 yrs: Object sorting, simple environmental words

  • 3–4 yrs: Letter E tracing, recycling concepts, vocabulary

  • 4–5 yrs: Classifying recyclables, early writing, Earth-friendly storytelling

Learning Topics by Age

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💡 Tips to Extend the Activity

  • Read The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall or Give Bees a Chance by Bethany Barton

  • Paint egg cartons yellow and stack them into a honeycomb

  • Create a felt flower garden for pollination pretend play

  • Sing “I’m Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee”

  • Make bee puppets out of paper tubes or craft sticks


📚 Related Activities

  • Color Sorting: Pollen Collection Game

  • Bee Life Cycle Matching Cards

  • Honeycomb Shape Building Mats


🔤 25 Vocabulary Words for “Honeybee” Theme

honeybee, hive, honey, hexagon, harvest, hum, flower, nectar, pollen, petal, buzz, black, yellow, wing, sting, fly, guard bee, queen bee, worker bee, drone, bee dance, garden, honeycomb, jar, letter H

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