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My First Bee Presentation For Grandson Preschool
Jen:
This event was a blast. This is my grandson, Gannon, he is a redhead, very precocious, and very smart. He was cooperative in putting on my junior bee suit.
We talked about how not to get stung by leaving honeybees alone while they are on flowers gathering food for their many baby's at home. I took dead worker bees that were still in good condition that they could hold and examine, and live drones that they could hold and pass around. Then I brought in the observation hive complete with the queen who donned her pink hat for them. The frame had capped brood and obvious larvae, and honey. I brought a frame of capped honey so they could poke their fingers in and taste the honey, and also there was a bowl of honey with pretzels, some of the kids had one pretzel with honey, and some many pretzels with honey.
It all lasted about half an hour or so. I'm looking forward to next year when both my grands will be in the same school and I can do both classrooms in one day.
Wandering Man:
Sounds like everyone had a great time, even grandma!
Thanks for posting the pics. I like your observation hive. It has kind of a Fisher-Price or Melissa & Doug primary school look to it. Now I want one.
Jen:
Thanks Wman, I got this one off of Amazon, for medium frames. Very impressed with the construction, and little assemblage. Very happy with it.
https://www.amazon.com/Medium-Beekeeping-Keeping-Observation-Hive/dp/B00IJO827C/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497393886&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=portable+observation+hive
Nugget Shooter:
Glad it went well and it does look like you had fun.... Hmmmmm pretzels and honey, never tried it and sounds good.
Jen:
Nug, it's Yummy, salty pretzel sticks with sweet honey. Then if you want to get extravagant.. add a cheese stick.. mm mm mm
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