Flight Of The Bumblebee

Flight of the Bumblebee

Together with our Artist in Residence Veronika, we learned all about mixing colours. We made beautiful colour wheels and painted all the colours of the rainbow just by mixing colours using yellow, red and blue - the primary colours. Then we listened to the 'Flight of the Bumblebee' by the Russian composer,  Rimsky Korsakov and let our brushes dance to the music. We were very inspired by the music and mixed lots of colours together. Here is a little video showing you how it is done:

When we finished painting, we had a good look and we saw many bumblebees flying around through meadows, storm clouds and forests. In a storytelling workshop with Veronika, we listened to the music very closely again and thought about a story for the 'Flight of the Bumblebee'. What made it fly so fast? Taking turns, we each added a sentence to our story and imagined the fairy tale of 'Jeffie, the Bumblebee'. We then tore up our paintings to make collages telling our story. 

'Once upon a time Jeffie, the bumblebee, flew to a flower meadow to collect some honey. There, she met a bear. The bear was very annoyed at the buzzing of the bumblebee because he had been sleeping. He roared at the bumblebee and tried to hit her with his paws. 

Jeffie stung the bear in his paws, which made the bear even madder.

Jeffie tried to escape and flew really fast back to the hive, but the bear chased after her. He was really angry. 

Jeffie made it back to the hive which was up in a tree. She excitedly told her brothers and sisters about the bear who was chasing her and they could already hear him roaring outside the hive. The bumblebees all flew out of the hive and tried to chase the bear away.

The bear flung his paws around and knocked the hive out of the tree. It fell on top of the bear's head and the bear dropped dead. Jeffie and the bear both went to heaven, because bumblebees die when they sting someone. But the other bumblebees were safe and quickly built a new hive in the tree. 

The End!'