A bee and a ladybird

Make bees and ladybirds using small jars.

 

Material and tools:

  • small terracotta jars
  • cottonballs with face
  • Marabu Decorlack in red and black
  • thick felt in red and yellow shade
  • black fuzzy sticks (pipe cleaners)
  • yellow and red wooden beads
  • a little red pompom and a glue

Instructions:

1 Paint the jars with decorlack, paint the ladybird's edge red.
2 Fix the head on a stick and paint everything except the face.
3 Cut out wings for the bee and ladybird from thicker felt. Add dots for the ladybird. Cut out two thin yellow strips.

4 Cut a piece of soft wire. Twist it in the shape of antennae. Hang a little yellow wooden ball at each end. Use scissors to cut a hole on the top of the head to insert antennae.
5 Glue yellow felt strips on the back of the bee, glue the wings and the head.
6 Glue the wings on to the bee along the whole length. Make little antennae, press and then glue the head onto the jar.

Designed by Višnja Skorin