DIY Cork Honeybees

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My husband and I tend to hold on to our wine corks. Sometimes we use them as decorative fillers in vases, or we keep them handy for crafts like these! Now that we have used our corks to make these adorable honeybees, the possibilities seem endless!

In addition to the wine corks, we needed a few other key items: yellow  acrylic paint, a black sharpie, black construction paper, a hot glue gun, and some white string. This may sound like a lot, but you may have many of these items laying around the house.

We decided to fasten our honey bees to a popsicle stick with string to make a hanging mobile. We thought this was a fun way to make our honeybees actually “fly.” This step is totally optional but worthwhile if you are looking for some adorable spring or summer decorations! My daughter also loved to make the bees dangle and dance.

Paint wine corks with yellow acrylic paint. Let corks dry completely. Use a black Sharpie to draw 3-6 black lines around the body of the cork.

Use the same black Sharpie to draw eyes, a nose and mouth on the flat base of the cork. Cut out two thin strips of black paper for the honeybees antennae. Glue strips above the honeybee’s face. Note: I folded down the bottoms of the antenna and glued the folded part of the strips to the cork to best secure the strips to the cork.

Cut out two small pieces of white string (about 5-6 inches long). Fold each piece of string in half and glue the ends together and to each side of the honeybee’s body.

If you’d like to create a honeybee mobile, simply glue your honeybees to long pieces of string and fasten them to a popsicle stick. *For toddlers especially, these tasks may require adult supervision and/or assistance.