Queen Bee Kit - A STEM Calm Care & Play Kit

from $78.00

Inside every hive is a remarkable community where thousands of bees work together to care for their Queen and keep the colony thriving.

The Queen Bee Calm Care & Play Kit invites children into that fascinating world through sensory exploration, storytelling, and science discovery. This kit blends STEM learning with nurturing play, allowing children to explore the roles bees play in pollination, honey production, and the life cycle of a hive.

The sensory mixes in the kit represent the different environments bees depend on to survive.

The Bee Blooms Mix celebrates the colorful flowers that attract bees. Bees are naturally drawn to certain flower colors—especially yellows, blues, purples, and whites—which makes these blooms essential sources of nectar and pollen.

The Honey & Hives Mix represents the interior of the hive, where bees build intricate honeycomb structures out of wax. These hexagonal cells are used to store honey, hold pollen, and raise baby bees.

The Bee Life Cycle Mix allows children to explore the incredible transformation bees undergo—from tiny egg to larva, pupa, and finally adult bee.

The Pollen Mix represents the tiny grains worker bees gather from flowers. As bees move from flower to flower collecting pollen and nectar, they help pollinate plants, allowing fruits, vegetables, and seeds to grow.

As children explore these environments, they also help care for their Queen Bee—collecting nectar, building honeycomb, raising baby bees, and learning how the hive works together to support its most important member.

Through storytelling and sensory play, children discover that a hive is not just a place where honey is made—it is a carefully organized ecosystem where every bee has an important role.

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Inside every hive is a remarkable community where thousands of bees work together to care for their Queen and keep the colony thriving.

The Queen Bee Calm Care & Play Kit invites children into that fascinating world through sensory exploration, storytelling, and science discovery. This kit blends STEM learning with nurturing play, allowing children to explore the roles bees play in pollination, honey production, and the life cycle of a hive.

The sensory mixes in the kit represent the different environments bees depend on to survive.

The Bee Blooms Mix celebrates the colorful flowers that attract bees. Bees are naturally drawn to certain flower colors—especially yellows, blues, purples, and whites—which makes these blooms essential sources of nectar and pollen.

The Honey & Hives Mix represents the interior of the hive, where bees build intricate honeycomb structures out of wax. These hexagonal cells are used to store honey, hold pollen, and raise baby bees.

The Bee Life Cycle Mix allows children to explore the incredible transformation bees undergo—from tiny egg to larva, pupa, and finally adult bee.

The Pollen Mix represents the tiny grains worker bees gather from flowers. As bees move from flower to flower collecting pollen and nectar, they help pollinate plants, allowing fruits, vegetables, and seeds to grow.

As children explore these environments, they also help care for their Queen Bee—collecting nectar, building honeycomb, raising baby bees, and learning how the hive works together to support its most important member.

Through storytelling and sensory play, children discover that a hive is not just a place where honey is made—it is a carefully organized ecosystem where every bee has an important role.

✨ NEW Choose Your Kit Size! Our kits now come in three size options to fit your play style and budget.

Choose Your Size

✨ All sizes include the same full set of accessories and the digital companion. The only difference is the amount of sensory mix included.

Reusable Adventure Bag

Large kits arrive in a sturdy zipper bag filled with cheerful rainbow shredded paper. The colorful paper cushions the pieces during shipping and doubles as an extra sensory material for play. When playtime is over, the bag keeps all the tiny treasures safely stored and ready for the next adventure.

Small Kit

• 1 cup Honey & Hives Mix

• Mini Bee Blooms Mix

• Pollinator Pollen Shaker

• Bee Life Cycle Discovery Wheel

All of the toys and accessories pictured.

Perfect as a starter kit or travel-friendly option.

Medium Kit

• 3 cups Honey & Hives Mix

• Mini Bee Blooms Mix

• Pollinator Pollen Shaker + mini 1 cup pollen refill

• Bee Life Cycle Discovery Wheel

Great for longer play sessions or sibling sharing.

Large Kit

• 5 cups Honey & Hives Mix

• Mini Bee Blooms Mix

• Pollinator Pollen Shaker + mini 1 cup pollen refill

• Bee Life Cycle Discovery Wheel

All of the toys and accessories pictured.

Best for classrooms, therapy spaces, or kids who love BIG sensory play.


Sensory Mixes:

Honey & Hives Mix

Golden honey mix with hive and honeycomb shapes

Bee Blooms Mix

Flower garden inspired mix featuring colors and flowers that attract bees

Bee Life Cycle Discovery Wheel

A circular container representing the life cycle of a bee with eggs, larva, pupa, and adult bee mixes. Includes 3 hand painted worker bees and one larger hand painted Queen Bee

Pollen Shaker Mix

Representing the pollen bees collect from flowers

What’s Included in Every Kit:

Bee Figures & Hive Members

• Large 3D Printed Queen Bee Fidget

2 Small 3D Printed Worker Bee Fidget

• Collection of Small Bee charms

The Queen Bee’s Calm Care Suitcase

3D printed Queen Bee suitcase you’ll find special items that help the Queen stay calm, nourished, and ready to lead the hive.

Includes:

• Mini lavender bottle – inspired by flowers bees love

• Tiny nectar bottle to make magic sparkly nectar to pour into the flower container

• Royal jelly slime – the special food fed to future queen bees

• Mini book: Diary of a Queen Bee

• Mini book: The Life Cycle of a Bee

• Tiny Queen Bee crown charm

• Tiny baby bottle for baby bee feeding

These items invite children to practice nurturing play while learning how bees care for the Queen in a real hive.

Pollination Discovery Tools

Bees are some of the most important pollinators on Earth. As they visit flowers collecting nectar and pollen, they help plants grow fruits, vegetables, and seeds.

These pieces allow children to explore how pollination works.

Includes:

Use with the Bee Blooms Sensory mix representing bee-friendly flowers:

• Pollen Sensory Mix in a shaker bottle for kids to shake onto the flowers representing the pollen bees collect

• Flower container to pour the “nectar” into for the bees to drink out

• A collection of flower charms

• Wooden flower pot for painting

Children can imagine bees traveling between flowers collecting pollen and nectar to bring back to the hive.

Honey & Hive Science

Inside the hive, worker bees transform nectar into honey and store it inside wax honeycomb cells.

These pieces allow children to recreate that fascinating process through sensory play.

Includes:

Use with the Honey & Hives sensory mix:

• Four beautiful, matching resin pieces by Tara – Wild Ones Resin, to pour nectar, mix, or slime onto to replicate how honey is made

  • Two Honeycomb pieces (assorted shades)

  • 1 small pebble (assorted shades)

  • 1 large gem (assorted shades)

• Honeycomb storage container that perfectly fit the honeycomb pasta in the Honey & Hives mix

• Bee wing fan tool used to imitate how bees fan their wings to evaporate nectar and turn it into honey

• Piece of real beeswax for children to explore and place on top of the honeycombs for sealing.

• Bear honey jar filled with honey mix to talk about how we bring honey into our homes

Children can scoop, pour, and imagine filling honeycomb cells just like real bees.

Bee Life Cycle Exploration

Bees go through an incredible transformation inside the hive.

This kit includes a circular life cycle container with separate honeycomb sections so children can explore each stage of a bee’s development.

Includes:

• Bee life cycle mix with egg, larva, pupa, and adult bee stages

• Four honeycomb containers representing the stages of the life cycle

Children can sort the stages and discover how a tiny egg grows into a worker bee or even a Queen.

📱 Includes a Digital Product (Via QR code on the PHYSICAL PRODUCT)

Digital Queen Bee Companion Includes:

This kit includes a Queen Bee Calm Care & Learning Digital Companion designed to extend play into deeper discovery.

The printable pack includes:

Calm Care Scenario Cards

Story-based prompts that help children practice empathy and problem-solving as they care for their Queen Bee and help the hive stay calm and thriving.

Item Cards

Cards that match the sensory pieces in the kit, encouraging storytelling, sorting, and imaginative hive adventures.

Pollinator Experiments

Simple hands-on activities that help children discover how bees pollinate flowers and why pollinators are essential for plants to grow.

Honey & Hive Science

Explorations that show how bees turn nectar into honey and how honeycomb cells are used inside the hive.

Bee Life Cycle Exploration

Activities that help children understand how bees grow and transform from egg to larva, pupa, and finally adult bee.

3D printed designs by 3DGOB and ZOU2D


Why You’ll Love It

• Introduces children to the science of bees and pollination

• Encourages nurturing play as kids help care for their Queen

• Blends STEM learning with sensory exploration

• Supports emotional regulation through calm, focused play

• Includes artisan pieces and nature-based discoveries

• Encourages storytelling and imaginative small-world play

• Beautifully curated for hands-on science learning


Perfect For

• Pollinator and nature studies

• Homeschool science units

• Montessori-inspired learning

• Sensory regulation play

• Kids who love insects, nature, and discovery

• Classroom science centers


Important Warning Information:

• Contains small parts — adult supervision

• Not intended for children under 3

• Sensory mixes are not edible

• Colors and pieces may vary due to handmade nature, Items are handmade and may vary slightly

• Some pasta pieces may naturally break during shipping

• Storage: Keep sensory materials sealed in a dry location.

• Handcrafted Sensory Materials – MAY INCLUDE: pasta, chickpeas, corn products, and tapioca (not intended for consumption).

• Digital file access provided via QR code in the kit.

• Eco-Friendly & Thoughtfully Designed