Bumble Bee Footprint Craft

Toddlers and preschoolers will love this adorable bumble bee footprint craft. Help them add stripes, wings, and a face to turn their footprint into a cute bumble bee! This easy craft is perfect for little bug enthusiasts and makes a great keepsake. You could make this bee craft with a baby, too, but an adult would have to do most of the work!

See more bug-themed crafts and activities on our bug and butterfly-themed activity calendar.

This bumble bee craft is so easy to make using just a few craft supplies, and you can't deny that it's totally adorable. I love the contrast of the bumble bee's black stripes against the yellow footprint and the addition of lots of little flowers. We have made a few footprint bugs over the years, including a footprint butterfly and a footprint ladybird.

Can your child buzz like a bee? Get them ready for this craft by watching a video clip of a bee buzzing around, and ask them if they can buzz like a bee. They might like to try out a few other bug movements too, using our bug action cards.

You can learn more about bumble bees and other bugs by reading a few of the books from our bug book list. If, after you have completed your bumble bee craft, your child is interested in doing some activities based around other bugs, they might enjoy colouring in our free bug colouring pages or one of our other bug crafts.

Bumble Bee Footprint Craft

Bee footprint supplies:

White card (or paper)
Coloured card
Black pen
Googly eyes
Small craft flowers
Glue

How to make a bumble bee footprint

Start by making some yellow footprints on white card. I would suggest making loads of footprint (because it's so much fun) and then choosing your favourite footprints to make crafts from.

Once the yellow footprints have dried cut them out leaving a small white border around the edge of the footprints.

Cut some tear drop shapes out from the off cuts of white card. These will be used for the bumble bee wings. I would recommend cutting out a variety of sized wings so your child can choose the number and size of wings which they would like on their bumble bee.

Take the yellow footprint and draw black stripes across it's body using a black marker. Then stick the footprint onto coloured card.

Glue on the bees wings and add some googly eyes or draw on a face.

You might want to encourage your child to look at some pictures of bumble bees and think about how many wings a bee has and where they are on it's body.

Daisy (aged 3) added a wing on either side of her bumble bee and opted for big blue googly eyes, whilst I added 2 wings to one side of the bee that I was decorating.

Once your footprint bumble bee have fun adding extra details such as flowers.

We glued on a variety of craft flowers. Some of them were made from paper, some were foam stickers and some were little flower sequins. Daisy (aged 3) loved designing her garden for her bumble bee.