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BeeChicas’ Secret Tips and Simple Recipes
Rocky Mountain Bee Plant (Cleome serrulata) Click here for how to make origami planting pots from newspaper!
Boulder’s Bumble Bees!
Fold TracyChica’s Bumble Bee Identification Zine to learn some fun facts about the bumble bees right here in Boulder County! See below for how to fold your zine. (photo by Jennifer Sundman)
Learn how to fold this informative little magazine and take it with you to look for bees in your neighborhood!
Join us at the boulder Public Library for hands-on workshops. Take home samples and learn how to DIY! Plus, we always talk about bees and pollinators and you will be sure to learn a little something!
Beeswax Lip Balm
Quick Bee Antennae
How to Make quick Pollinator antennae
Make believe you’re a bee or another pollinator… and let your imagination soar!
How to make beeswax lipbalm
Tired of all those plastic lip balm tubes? Try metal tins and learn how to fill them with our BeeChicas secret, all natural, Lemony Minty Lip Balm!
Beeswax Wraps
How to Make a beeswax wrap
Beeswax Wraps are a simple alternative to plastic in your lunchbox and kitchen. Find out the tricks to making cute and functional wraps.
Nature’s Remedies: Propolis Tincture, Propolis Oil and Elderberry Honey Syrup
Watch a Quick How-To Video below
Propolis Tincture
Making Beeswax Candles
Beeswax Strips for the Hive
Beeswax Sealing Wax
Advocate for the bees and seal it with beeswax! Click here for Recipe!
How to Make a Simple Native Bee House
Scroll Down to see Materials Lists for making native bee houses.
Honey Lavender Lemonade
How to Make Natural Sunscreen 3 Ways
How to Make a Native Bee House
Materials for Making a Mason Jar Bee House with Shade
1 Container: 6-8” Deep for keeping the nest dry (mason jar, tall can with one end removed, bottom of juice or milk carton, etc.)
7-50, 6” long nesting tubes (dried hollow stems, paper straws, bamboo, or paper rolled around a pencil. Different diameter openings will attract different species of native bees, 1/16” to 1/2”)
Clay to hold tubes in container, about 100g or 1 to 1.5” diameter ball
Jute-coated wire (or any other wire)
Beeswax wrap for decoration/shade (optional)
8” by 12” Piece of Cardboard creased/folded in half for shade roof. Cut a hole for wire hanger (or craft a shade roof from metal or lightweight wood) (optional)
Small Reed Bee House
Materials For Making a Simple Bee House “Wrap”
7-15, Dried Hollow Stems cut into at least 6” Long Segments (Sunflowers, Allium, Joe Pye Weed are some good choices, but feel free to experiment…allow stalks to dry in the garden and cut in the spring. Leave 6” sticking up in your garden for even more places for bees to nest!)
Beeswax Wrap or Waterproof Cloth
Jute-coated wire (any wire or string will do)
A bit of clay or mud to close back end of tubes
How to Make Compost Tea
Healthy soil = Healthy Pollinators = Healthy Planet
(or, how to Grow BEAUTIFUL, abundant forage for the bees and food for your table without chemicals or pesticides!)