Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 23 minutes ago
A pipe cleaner bee is the one bug nobody swats at. It ends up on a desk lamp, a windowsill, or taped to the top of a lunchbox note — and it stays there.
Bees get a strange kind of affection in this country. People plant whole gardens hoping they'll show up. Americans even borrowed the word for their own gatherings — a quilting bee, a spelling bee, a room of people working side by side until the thing is finished. Which is more or less what this craft is. You sit down with two stems, twist, coil, and there's a small striped body in your palm that wasn't there before. Watching the stripes line up is a better feeling than it has any right to be.
This tutorial walks through how to make a bee out of pipe cleaners step by step — black and yellow chenille stems twisted together, wound into a round little body, then finished with wings and antennae. Nothing to print, nothing to sew. Kids can follow along, and anyone making something handmade for the first time can still end up with a tidy result. Everything you need fits in one hand.
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A pipe cleaner bee is the one bug nobody swats at. It ends up on a desk lamp, a windowsill, or taped to the top of a lunchbox note — and it stays there.
Bees get a strange kind of affection in this country. People plant whole gardens hoping they'll show up. Americans even borrowed the word for their own gatherings — a quilting bee, a spelling bee, a room of people working side by side until the thing is finished. Which is more or less what this craft is. You sit down with two stems, twist, coil, and there's a small striped body in your palm that wasn't there before. Watching the stripes line up is a better feeling than it has any right to be.
This tutorial walks through how to make a bee out of pipe cleaners step by step — black and yellow chenille stems twisted together, wound into a round little body, then finished with wings and antennae. Nothing to print, nothing to sew. Kids can follow along, and anyone making something handmade for the first time can still end up with a tidy result. Everything you need fits in one hand.
SUBSCRIBE for ABC TV Videos: youtube.com/c/ABCTVCraftTutorial?sub_confirmation=1
All "ABC TV" paper craft video: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMqdjxWoOlLhsTyc_Rfy4tAzoQt4Pdga
Follow me with hashtags:
#abctvcraft
#paperflower
