Aug 2

Aug 2 DIY: Honeybee crown

Honey bee crowns make your Rosh Hashanah celebration extra sweet!

Making honey bee crowns with your littles is one way to put imaginative play into your Rosh Hashanah celebration. The word Rosh in Hebrew means head, and when you make a honey bee crown, you’ll be ready to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, which means the head of the year! Plus, they’re extra fun to wear while eating apples dipped in honey!

You don’t need a lot of supplies to make one. And the best news - you can make about 10 crowns from one sheet of yellow poster board. So they’re perfect for a party or classroom celebration! I made these for a Rosh Hashanah picnic, and they made everyone very happy. So let’s go make a honey bee crown!

Honey Bee Crown

For Each Crown, you will need:

Yellow poster board
2 googley eyes
2 pipe cleaners
2 pom poms
Black marker
Stapler
Glue

For decorating:

Stickers and crayons

Here’s how to make it with a little:

Cut a 2 1/2 inch strip (on the short side) of a yellow poster board for each crown. Help your little glue on two google eyes in the center and draw a smile underneath. Then take two pipe cleaners and help your child wrap the ends around a fuzzy pom-pom. These will become antennas! Glue the pipe cleaner antennas inside the poster board strip (a hot glue gun works best, grown-ups only). Before stapling the ends together to form a crown, invite your little to decorate with stickers, crayons and markers.

If you’d like to see step-by-step photos of the process, click here to see our froggy crown!

And that’s it, a little honey bee crown to wear on top of your Rosh (head)! Now you’re all set for celebrating!

There’s a cute song called “Little Honey Bee” by Lisa Baydush that you can sing and act out while wearing your honey bee crown (adapted from the tune of “I’m a Little Piece of Tin”)

I’m a little honey-bee,

I hope that you’re not scared of me!

I make honey that tastes so sweet

So you can have a Rosh Hashanah treat!

Chorus: Bzzz Bzzz, dip the apple in the honey (3x)

Hello little Honey-Bee,

Thanks for making our honey!

It tastes so sweet, it tastes so fine,

We could eat it all the time!

Chorus: Bzzz Bzzz, dip the apple in the honey (3x)