An Interest in Bees Grows

We presented the girls with several pictures of bees and encouraged them to take a
closer look with the magnifying glasses.

Their first attempts at drawing the bees was quite different from their later drawings. Many girls began by saying “I can’t draw a bee”. We noticed that they were drawing faces on the bees; eyes, a nose and a mouth. The bees legs were straight lines. We asked them to take a closer look at the bees in the photos and we talked about the ways that the bees face differed from their faces.
This led to quite a change in their drawings.

After the first drawing, we took time to look at different parts of the bees, separately. We invited the girls to look at their own legs and to take a close look at how their knees and ankles
allowed their legs to bend.

When we looked through the magnifying glass at the bees legs, we pointed out that bees legs have different parts like their legs, and each part is shaped quite differently.

 

The girls then drew the legs of the bees several times to get a better idea of their shape. We noticed that the legs of the next bees they drew, were a lot more detailed.  

Once we had taken the time to look at all the body parts of the bee,

it was time to start drawing.

Here are the girls deep in concentration. 

Drawing bees isn't easy!