Bumblebee Prize Number 2

For our second prize to go along with the bumble bee certificates for kids in our class memorizing their second prayer, we made them small bumble bee tins.

These were relatively simple to make.  I used a two inch scalloped paper punch to cut out circles from black and yellow patterned paper.  I hot glued these round discs to the lids of small tin wedding favor boxes.  I then attached a bumble bee sticker to the top.  Pretty simple, and pretty cute!

I've posted the supplies needed for this in my Amazon store if you would like to purchase the items and support my fledgling blog at the same time. 

Supplies:

  Matte Silver Tin  (.50 cents each as of 11/2/11)

               

     Scalloped Paper Punch (2 inch)  ($11.77 as of 11/2/11)

Bumble Bee Stickers  ($5.32 as of 11/2/11)...Note, I couldn't find the exact same stickers on Amazon, these are from the same company.  Mine were Sticko stickers from Michaels.



Add these to either yellow or black plain or patterned paper, and a hot glue gun, and you are all set.  Happy crafting!

Bumble Bee Bulletin Board Prayer Tracking

As promised earlier, here are some photos of our bumble bee themed bulletin board that we are using with our bee hive prayer books to help the kids in our class learn their prayers.

Each child has a bumble bee cut out purchased from our local teaching store, Launching Success.  You can purchase the same bees online at my amazon store here (we saved the matching flowers for a future project, tbd).

Next to the bumble bee, we have the grade level appropriate checklist (included in the bee hive prayer book downloads on that post).

Each time a child gets a prayer correct, we add a bumble bee sticker on the check box (you can see this next to one of the bees here).

As mentioned, we then give them a bee certificate, and a bee themed prize, and will let them choose something from our larger prize box once they memorize and recite all four prayers to us.

Pretty simple, but something fun for memorizing.  We put a copy of our hive prayer books up on the board , along with our attendance chart.

Bumblebee Prayers Prize One

As mentioned in earlier posts, we are using a bumble bee theme in our classroom this year to assist and motivate our K-1 children to memorize the required four prayers for their grade level (Archiocese of Seattle requirements).

When each child is able to successfully recite a prayer to a teacher, we are giving them a small bumblebee certificate (we got ours on the back of an attendance poster from our local teaching store) and a small prize, along with a sticker on their beehive charts, with the goal of four stickers completing the chart resulting in a fun toy prize from our prize box.

For the first prayer the children memorize and recite, we have given them a small bumble bee bookmark that I made prior to class.  When they recited the prayer, I wrote the name of the prayer on their bookmark and gave it to them along with the certificate.  Our plan is to have four different bumble bee prizes to go along with each certificate for prayer memorized.  To stretch this out and allow for us to have enough time to assemble all prizes (or come up with them....I'm still trying to think of a fourth prize) we are only letting them recite one prayer per week.  So far a little over half of our class has recited one prayer.

Here are the instructions and photos for the bookmarks.

 For supplies we purchased Foamies Tounge Depressors (made of craft foam), but a wooden one would also work.  I used two Foamies sticks for each bookmark as they are kind of floppy on their own.  We also purchased large black pom poms, and slightly smaller yellow pom poms, black chenile stems (pipe cleaners) and small googly eyes.

 

To assemble, we first glued the two sticks together to make them sturdier for a bookmark. 

We then used glue to attach the large black pom pom to the sticks. 

Next, we again used glue to attach the smaller yellow pom pom on the center of the black pom pom,

 and finally glued on the eyeballs to the yellow pom pom.

We allowed them to dry.  Once dry, we attached the black chenile stem wings. 

We folded a pipe cleaner in half, and wrapped it around the black part of the bee...

in our picture I show you what it looks like off of the bee for demonstration purposes, but while making them, we formed the wings on the bee body itself.

On the day of class, we wrote the name of the prayer recited on the bookmark with a permanent marker.  Pretty cute!

Beehive Prayer Books

One of our tasks as RE teachers is to ensure our kids learn the required prayers for their grade level.  For Kindergartners, it is the Sign of the Cross, Prayer Before Meals, Prayer After Meals and Prayer to One's Guardian Angel.  For our First Graders, it is Glory Be, Hail Mary, Our Father and the Prayer at the Stations of the Cross.

This year, our class adopted a Bumble Bee theme.  Our attendance poster, purchased from Launching Success Learning Store here in Bellingham, features bumble bees and hives.  On our Bulletin Board, each child has his or her own bumble bee along with a small hive listing the required prayers for their grade (photos to follow in a future post).  A link to these checklists can be found here:  Kindergarten Prayer List Hive and here:  First Grade Prayer List Hive .  Each time a child memorizes a prayer and recites it to one of the teachers, they earn a bumble bee sticker on their hive and a small prize and certificate (bumble bee certificates from the back of our attendance chart).

To help the kids learn their prayers at home, each child assembled a Bumble Bee Hive Prayer Booklet to take home with them.  These are hand drawn by me, so they are not super fancy, bee warned!  You can download copies of the books here:  Kindergarten Bee Hive Prayer Booklet or here:  First Grade Bee Hive Prayer Booklet.

Once you print out the booklets, you can copy them onto yellow or tan paper to make the beehives.  Each child should get one complete set of hive materials.  Have each child cut them out separately, they should end up with five separate pieces.

The pieces then stack from largest on the bottom, to smallest on the top.  The top of the stack can be assembled with a few staples. 

To the Left, you can see a sample of the documents

stacked in progression: 

Our Finished Product....