Bees

Page Toppers for Bee Stickers

Bumble Bee

(Margaret Wise Brown)

Black and yellow
Little fur bee
Buzzing away
In the timothy
Drowsy
Browsy
Lump of a bee
Rumbly
Tumbly
Bumbly bee.
Where are you taking
Your golden plunder
Humming along
Like baby thunder?
Over the clover
And over the hay
Then over the apple trees
Zoom away.

Busy Bee

Give each customer a zig zag ruler; a 12" strip of green paper with the zig zag cut out on one side; five yellow and four purple polka dot triangles to alternate in the open areas on the green strip; and one mod of bumblebee stickers. I did an example on a black refill page using outdoor pics of my daughter and titled it "We were busy as bees in preschool!". I also did a 2-page spread with the triangles inside the green along the outside edges that is titled "Meet my honeys!". (Momof6)

Old beekeepers never die, they just buzz off.

Fireflies

After Dark

(Frances Gorman Risser)

Butterflies and Caterpillars

Page Toppers

• Butterflies Are Free
• Butterfly Kisses
• Elusive Butterfly
  (song by Bob Lind)
• Love is Like a Butterfly
  (song by Dolly Parton)
• Social Butterfly

Quotes

• Butterflies are self propelled flowers. (R. H. Heinlein)
• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. (Rabindranath Tagore)
• The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly. (Ecouchard Le Brun)
• A butterfly lights beside us and for a brief moment it's glory and beauty belong to our world, but then it flies on again and although we wish it could have stayed, we are so thankful to have seen it at all.
• Flowers and butterflies drift in color: illuminating spring.
• Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and softly sits on your shoulder. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• Happiness is like a butterfly. When pursued, it is always beyond your grasp,
  but if you sit quietly, it may alight upon you.
• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. (Chang Tzu)
• If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
• If you have butterflies in your stomach...invite them into your heart.
• Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush, hold it too loose, it'll fly away.
• Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.
• Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. (Bradley Millar)
• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. (R. Buckminster Fuller)
• They say that something as small as a butterfly beating its wings in China can cause a hurricane in America, so maybe we should go to China and kill all the butterflies, just to be safe. (Ken Advent)
• You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.

Opposing Thoughts of Butterflies

A Butterfly Lights Beside Us

A butterfly lights beside us, like a sunbeam...
and for a brief moment it's glory
and beauty belong to our world...
but then it flies on again, and although
we wish it could have stayed,
we are so thankful to have seen it at all.

Butterfly

Flutter by,
Butterfly,
Floating flower
in the sky.
Kiss me with your
Petal wings -
Whisper secrets,
Tell of spring.

Other Insects

Page Toppers

Quotes

• Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite.
• We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. (Bill Vaughn)
• Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Itsy Bitsy Spider

The itsy-bitsy spider
Climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out
Out came the sun
And dried up all the rain
And the itsy-bitsy spider
Climbed up the spout again

Little Talk

(Aileen Fisher)

Don't you think it's probable
that beetles, bugs and bees
talk about a lot of things -
you know, such things as these:

The kind of weather where they live
in jungles tall with grass
and earthquakes in their villages
whenever people pass!

Of course, we'll never know if bugs
talk very much at all,
because our ears are far too big
for talk that is so small.

The Puzzled Centipede

A centipede was happy quite,
Until a frog in fun
Said, "Pray, which leg comes after which?"
This raised her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in the ditch
Considering how to run.

An Explanation of the Grasshopper

(Vachel Lindsay)

The Grasshopper, the Grasshopper,
I will explain to you -
He is the Brownies' racehorse,
The Fairies' Kangaroo.

Ladybug, Ladybug

(Aileen Fisher)

Ladybug

(Maria Fleming)

Ladybugs all dressed in red
Strolling through the flower bed.
If I were tiny just like you
I'd creep among the flowers too!

A Dragon-Fly

(Eleanor Farjeon)

When the heat of the summer
Made drowsy the land,
A dragon-fly came
And sat on my hand,
With its blue jointed body,
And wings like spun glass,
It lit on my fingers
As though they were grass.

Birds

Birds have been moved to a separate file.