Hello! Everyone, welcome to my blog. I am glad to be a participant in this bee contest. This is my first time participating in DIY's monthly challenge.

I love honey. It is exciting to know more about the incredible nature of bees. All these while I have been enjoying delicious honey, I never cared to know how it's produced or the creatures behind its existence. I just found out that bees contribute to the production of one third of food we consume globally, shocking right? Yeah! I know, I was shocked too. Have you seen how they construct the honeycomb and produce honey? It's fascinating! The division of labour is remarkable.

In today's contest, I would be showing you how I made a lovely bee garden using cardboard papers.

Materials:
Cardboard paper(white, yellow, pink,white, peach and green)
Scissors
Marker
Pencil
Gum
Ruler
A used brown envelope
Water colour

Step one: hexagonal shape for honeycomb.
Cut strips of yellow cardboard paper about ½ inch wide and as long as possible. You would be needing at least 30 hexagonal shapes or more. Form a hexagonal shape with the strips sealing its ends with gum. Place each shape on a plain paper using gum to make it stay on to the paper and form a honeycomb. I also went ahead to cut some shapes in place of honey drops.

Step two: Bees shape.
Draw any bee shape of your choice probably better than mine. Cut out the shapes and seal them together using gum. I used the black marker to shade a piece of the white paper, then cut a thin part to form the antenna and a triangle part to form the stinger.

Step three: flowers.
Using a square paper I folded it into four pieces, then made a triangle shape and stylishly cut the sides. The dot at the centre was created using a black marker.

Step four: trees.
Using the brown envelope I drew part of a tree then cut it out.

Step five: leaves.
Draw the size and shape of leaves you want using the green paper and then cut it out.

Step six: Grass.
Using a rectangular green paper, fold into 5 or more times then draw an imaginary grass shape then cut it out following the lines.

Step seven: birds and sun.
On the white paper draw a bird shape and then cut it out, shade it a little using a pencil. Cut out a circle shape for the sun using the yellow paper.

on a plain blue paper carefully place all your characters and features the way you want your bee garden to look like.

The bee's world is an interesting one and a beneficial one to both humans, animals and plants. We should ensure their safety, protect and also support them to enable us to enjoy their benefits.

This project was quite engaging drawing, cutting and sticking. It was a fun project.

Designed using canva.

What do you think about my beehive garden?

Note: I was thinking I would have need for the water colour but I didn't use it.

All images are mine.