Balancing Bumble Bees

For playgroup last week we had fun making balancing bumble bees. The idea came from here.  

I tried to link the activity to the Srimati Radharani and the bumble bee pastime.  That's why we made bumble bees instead of butterflies.  They were already cut out, the children decorated them and glued the weights under the wings to make them balance.  

Balance was our focus word for the activity.  We sang  One Grey Elephant Balancing as the the children balanced on a rope on the floor.  We talked about the colours yellow and black and had a look at the yellow and black stripe patterns on the bumble bee.