Expressive Arts

The Bumbles of Honeywood have overcome lots of challenges over the past year. They fought off the nasty hornets, then recovered from the awful Beezles pandemic. Straight after that came ‘Storm Suzy.’ To lift everyone’s spirits, Bella and Bobby decide to organise a Honeywood Festival of Fun! Barry Bumble and his worker bees are asked to build a theatre, and Bella Bumble writes a play for the minibeasts to act on the stage. She loves writing exciting, fun stories. Bobby loves to make things, so he’s in charge of making all the costumes. The little bees ask for help from their friends to make the Honeywood Festival of Fun a huge success.

The Bumbles of Honeywood have overcome lots of challenges over the past year. They fought off the nasty hornets, then recovered from the awful Beezles pandemic. Straight after that came ‘Storm Suzy.’

 To lift everyone’s spirits, Bella and Bobby decide to organise a Honeywood Festival of Fun! Barry Bumble and his worker bees are asked to build a theatre, and Bella Bumble writes a play for the minibeasts to act on the stage. Bobby loves to make things, so he’s in charge of making all the costumes. The little bees ask for help from their friends in an attempt to make the Honeywood Festival of Fun a huge success.

Children think about the importance of friendship. They are tasked to design and make a photo frame ready to wrap for a person in the class to choose and keep.

Show the PowerPoint with examples of photo frame designs and discuss ideas and possible materials that could be used.

Bobby and his mum Betty find their school has been damaged by the farmers’ machinery cutting back the hedgerow. Betty is a teacher at the school and she asked Bobby to help her find a place for the new bee school. Bobby is keen to help and he thinks about the most important features for a new school. He ventures away from the hive out into the countryside to find the perfect spot – he wants to make his mum, Betty, proud. When he returns, he shares stories of his adventures with the whole hive. Bobby inspires the other bees to be determined, problem solvers and feels that the whole adventure was very rewarding.  

Bobby and his mum Betty find their school has been damaged by the farmers’ machinery cutting back the hedgerow. Betty is a teacher at the school, and she asks Bobby to help her find a place for a new bee school. Bobby is keen to help, and he thinks about the most important features needed for a new school. He ventures away from the hive out into the countryside to find the perfect spot – he wants to make his mum proud. Did he find the perfect spot? When he returns, he shares stories of his adventures with the whole hive. 

The Honeywood hive is rudely disturbed when a nest of bullying, noisy Hornets moves nearby and starts stealing their honey. The bees have to work together to find a solution to the problem and they work as a team to overcome the problem when it becomes noisier and noisier! Bertie finds himself injured as a result of rescuing Beebee from the nasty Hornets, so his fellow bee’s make best use of their own resources to help him feel better and fix his broken wing. The bees manage several difficult situations in this story but they eventually bring the community of bees safely home together.

The peace and tranquillity of Honeywood Hive is disturbed when a nasty hornet starts stealing their honey during the night and disturbing their sleep. Bertie leads the worker bees to try and solve this BIG problem peacefully. They decide to try and help the nasty hornet change his ways. They show him the magic of friendship and how if they all work together as a team and be kind to one another by sharing resources (including yummy, runny, honey), life could be much happier for everyone. Will the hornet see the error of his ways, and realise the magic of friendship and become a part of the Honeywood community?