The San Luis Obispo Children’s Museum is pleased to present a traveling exhibit dedicated entirely to bees. Expertly crafted by Arroyo Grande resident Karen Ames, The Secrets of Bees includes a wide variety of creative, interactive activities to help children appreciate this amazing insect that we frequently encounter and often misunderstand.
Studying bees adds significantly to the wider education of children, specifically addressing the food chain, importance of pollination, structure of societies, adaptation and engineering.
In this exhibit, young guests will study a fascinating plexiglass “observation hive” set up with a looped video of a bee hive in action. Dressed like honey bees, they can “fly” to the garden of five-foot-tall flowers, gather pollen into their pollen sacks, then “fly” into the giant hive. In the hive, they will pack pollen and nectar into honeycomb, make and fan honey, feed and care for larvae, clean and protect the hive, and tend to the queen. Children can also don protective keeper gear and work real wooden hives and then extract “honey” from the frames, fill honey bear jars and then sell the honey at a roadside stand.
The museum’s education staff will complement the exhibit with a wide variety of science and art programming.
For more information about the San Luis Obispo Children’s Museum, visit the website here or call (805) 545-5874.