No one said it would BEE easy to find favors.
For the favor box, stick to solids, stripes, polka dots or gingham, pictured left in black
or yellow. Stick a simple bee sticker on the outside or affix a bee shape from the cookie
cutter you've purchased. Flowers on the box are also a fun idea. Pick bright and happy
sunflower shapes.
You'll be a busy bee finding party favors with bees on them. A few will do, then stick to
a color scheme of black, and yellow candies and toys. Here are some hard to find favor
ideas with bees:
Here's are some games keep them busy bees:
Bumble Bee craft resources:
For the favor box, stick to solids, stripes, polka dots or gingham, pictured left in black
or yellow. Stick a simple bee sticker on the outside or affix a bee shape from the cookie
cutter you've purchased. Flowers on the box are also a fun idea. Pick bright and happy
sunflower shapes.
You'll be a busy bee finding party favors with bees on them. A few will do, then stick to
a color scheme of black, and yellow candies and toys. Here are some hard to find favor
ideas with bees:
- Bee glitter stickers, pictured left
- Bathtime Bubble Bee, pictured right
- Bumble Bee tattoos
- Bumble Bee stickers
- Bee pops, lollipops
- Bumble Bee Milk Chocolates
- Personalized bee candy wrappers
- Bee Premium Playing Cards, pictured left
- Bee kick balls: Bee Patient, Bee Helpful, Bee Kind and Bee Honest
- Bumble Bee Bubbles
- Bee Movie Antennas
Here's are some games keep them busy bees:
- The adults will appreciate music by none other than Sting!
- Honey Bee Tree game, right, is fun for the 4-8 year range, and makes a great
centerpiece display as well.
- Hasbro Playskool Honeybee Hop, is a favorite of the 3-5 year olds.
Bumble Bee craft resources:
- Honey Bee Bear Envelopes (free to print from GraphicGarden.com)
- Honey Bee graphic (free art for your invitations or coloring page activity)
- Craft bees with silk wings and wiggle eyes
- Bumble Bee Plate craft
Cakes and Cookies
Making a bee hive cake is easy with the Nordic Ware Platinum Collection Beehive Cake
Pan, pictured right. But you can just as easily stack layers like a wedding cake to
create a bee-hive effect, then frost with yellow icing and decorate with Martha
Stewart's Marzipan Bumble Bees. The marzipan bees also make easy cup cake
toppers. Try the bumble bee cupcake picks or the bee-mine cupcake rings for the
easiest cupcakes.
Party Foods that are sweet as can BEE:
It wouldn't BEE a party without some party sweets. Keep with your theme by laying
out clusters of candy in your theme colors. Try black licorice twists, lemon drops, salt
water taffy in licorice swirls, banana and lemon flavors, Licorice Allsorts, and of course
jelly beans in yellow and black! Here are more ideas to keep your party bee-ish:
Making a bee hive cake is easy with the Nordic Ware Platinum Collection Beehive Cake
Pan, pictured right. But you can just as easily stack layers like a wedding cake to
create a bee-hive effect, then frost with yellow icing and decorate with Martha
Stewart's Marzipan Bumble Bees. The marzipan bees also make easy cup cake
toppers. Try the bumble bee cupcake picks or the bee-mine cupcake rings for the
easiest cupcakes.
Party Foods that are sweet as can BEE:
It wouldn't BEE a party without some party sweets. Keep with your theme by laying
out clusters of candy in your theme colors. Try black licorice twists, lemon drops, salt
water taffy in licorice swirls, banana and lemon flavors, Licorice Allsorts, and of course
jelly beans in yellow and black! Here are more ideas to keep your party bee-ish:
- Bee-have differently with cookie cutters! Instead of using your bee shaped
cutter just for the cookies, try cutting biscuits, sandwiches, cheeses, Jello, or
fondant with cookie cutters.
- Look for Nabisco Honey Maid Bees. These adorable cookies are shaped like
little bumble bees. Find them at the supermarket or buy online. The mix well into
party snack mixes with cereals such as Honey Nut Cheerios or Honey Combs.
Try also the Honey Comb banana split.
- Make a buzz with Pretzel Bees. Bake Wilton yellow candies into the center of a
pretzel to create a body just a couple of minutes (the rest of the pretzel will
become the wings). When your creation hardens, accent with Wilton black
sparkle gel for the stripes. It's cute as can bee!
- Honey bottles. Serve lemonade in condiment squeeze bottles as the drink
containers (they look like honey bottles). Buy online at Amazon. You can affix
bumble bee stickers to punch up the look. Or buy the bottles intended for
mustard and add black stripes with a Sharpie. This idea is not appropriate for
children under three as the tiny plastic on the squeeze top is a choking hazard.
- Serve burgers with Bee-bee-cue sauce. Remove the label from your favorite
barbecue sauce and print your own Bee-bee-cue sauce labels.
- Honey sticks. These fun straws are intended for coffee and teas, but kids can't
resist the assorted flavors.
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Bumble Bee Party
How to have a sweet honey bee theme birthday party for kids
Cute as can bee, a bumble bee party is perfect for your little honey. It's the party that
was meant to bee. Here's how to have a party that won't sting your budget, but that
that's sure to be all the buzz with friends and family:
Setting the scene:
You may well find bumble bee party plates, bee-loons, and other fun bee decorations,
but a setting in solid black and yellow just as effectively conveys your theme. A few
well placed accessories and crepe paper is all you need:
How to have a sweet honey bee theme birthday party for kids
Cute as can bee, a bumble bee party is perfect for your little honey. It's the party that
was meant to bee. Here's how to have a party that won't sting your budget, but that
that's sure to be all the buzz with friends and family:
- Make your own invitations from a picture of your child in a bumble bee costume.
Make confetti from a bumble bee paper punch.
- Bumble Bee Invitations and wording ideas:
- Sweet as can BEE, our little Amy is turning THREE.*
- Buzz to sing Hap-BEE Birthday Saturday, August 22 at noon
- BEE there August 22, at noon! We'll have an un-BEE-lievably good time.
- Beehive: 123 main street
- R.S.V.P. Queen Bee Beverly or Bee Keeper Bob
- * Variations:
- It's time to BEE-have. It's time to have fun. Our little Bobby is turning one!
- Time just flew and we can't BEE-lieve Max is two!
- It was meant to bee, that you join us: Savanna is three!
- It's BEE-day time, so come through our door, Janie is turning four!
Setting the scene:
You may well find bumble bee party plates, bee-loons, and other fun bee decorations,
but a setting in solid black and yellow just as effectively conveys your theme. A few
well placed accessories and crepe paper is all you need:
- Turn black and yellow plates into bumble bee plates for the party by gluing
pompoms to pipe cleaners, then affixing them to the back of each plate with
tape. It's super cute and affordable. Make your own headbands out of pipe
cleaners and pompoms, too.
- A bumble bee Pinata, left, is a must have and also available easily online. Fill it
with black and yellow favors.
- For flowers, insert a bumble bee wand with a bouquet of sunflowers or daisies.
You may also try a honey bee antenna ball topper on a stick and mix it with a
bright arrangement.
- Costumes are decorations and help convey your theme, so get creative and
layer in stripes of black and gold from head to toe. Mom could wear a beehive
hair-do and some fun shoes and stockings. Dad can wear a yellow shirt with
black pants. Even Fido can wear antennae. Available year round online, you can s
ave the costumes for Halloween. The bumble bee candy bucket, left, is available
at Spirit Halloween. It makes a fun display for candy at your party.
- The foil bumble bee balloon we found on Amazon, right, is a happy combination
with ordinary black and yellow latex balloons. You can create a bumble bee
balloon with two strands of crepe paper affixed to a yellow balloon. Draw big
eyes and leave the tied end as the stinger.
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