Modeling Beeswax or Playdough

Modeling wax or playdough helps to develop a healthy tactile sense and helps to foster fine motor development in the hand, contributing to future fine motor required skills, including handwriting.  

A Beeswax Story
Shared by Louise deForest

The wind sweeps all throughout the world, over deserts and mountains, jungles and oceans.  As it travels, it gathers stories from all the different lands.  The leaves of the trees catch these stories as the wind rustles through the leaves and drops them down to the flowers, who save those stories for the bees because bees love stories.  

When the bees come to gather the pollen, they also gather up the stories brought by the wind, held by the leaves of the trees and dropped into the flowers' open cups.  As the bees make the walls of their babies' rooms out of beeswax, they put the stories into the walls, as well so their babies will know something about the world.  The bees know that all human beings like stories too.  So in your beeswax, you will find a story that has been put there just for you.  But you will only find the story if you let the good sun shine through.  

Don’t have modeling beeswax at home? Check out Palumba or Nova Natural!

If you want to utilize playdough rather than modeling beeswax, but still want to establish a relationship with honeybees, there is good news! You can do both!

The next time you are on a walk around the block, in the backyard, or looking out from a window, see if you can identify the honeybees visiting the leaves, blossoms, and buds in your area.  Have a little taste of honey on a spoon, and thank the bees for sharing their nectar. If you have a beeswax candle at home, light it before your meals, thank the bees for sharing their wax and light and bless your food, much of which grew because of the bees doing their good work of pollination.