• Honey Bee Habitat Hunt Printable
• Choosing Real Foods Printable
• Long Live the Bees Lesson Plan, K-2nd Grade Version
• Let’s Learn Printable with Nature Nate
• Let’s Create Printable with Nature Nate
• Let’s Search Printable with Nature Nate
• Let’s Color Printable with Nature Nate
• Honey Bee Coloring Sheet for Your Littles
• Bee Coloring Sheet for Your Older Kids
• Color by Numbers Printable

Oh and for those sweet treats and other delicious recipes to make at home… click here for our latest recipes.

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The sweet anticipation of Easter is something both kids and adults alike can’t seem get enough of – and we want to celebrate alongside you! Faith and family mean the world to us, and so we’ve created free-bee activities to help you and your family celebrate all things Easter. With a crossword, dot-to-dot, counting games and drawing, not only will Nate’s Easter fun provide a creative outlet, but hopefully it will gift your family with quiet time to recognize and reflect on Jesus’s ultimate sacrifice.

From our hive to yours, happy Easter!

• Resurrection Printable
• Easter Fun Activity
• Easter Basket Printable
• Advanced Coloring Sheet

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This year, we’re adding two fun DIY activities to the mix. To let the kids flex their creativity, we’ve come up with design-your-own Christmas ornaments and tree projects. Bonus: They can hang this unbreakable one on the tree all by themselves! Speaking of, you can leave your treasured Christmas Village on the high-up shelf this year and showcase your family’s very own picturesque holiday scene – one that they can actually play with.

Maybe you’re still searching for a tradition to be your family’s own special “thing,” which can be a lot of pressure! Creating cherished memories doesn’t require endless money or creativity – all you need is quality time together to truly experience the spirit of the season.

• Nate’s Christmas Village
• Create with Nate: Christmas Ornaments
• Create with Nate: Christmas Tree

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We’ve created three free printable activities to keep little minds busy before, during and after the main feast. Our Give Thanks Activity Sheet provides coloring fun and a creative method for everyone to share what they’re grateful for. Gobble Till You Wobble Bingo will bring out your fun competitive side. Build Your Own Turkey is an easy DIY craft – turkey decorating contest, anyone?

Before you know it, the whole family will be giggling together, and you’ll be reminded how much there is to be thankful for.

• Give Thanks Activity Sheet
• Nate’s Gobble ’til You Wobble Bingo
• Build Your Own Turkey

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• Nate’s Pumpkin Coloring
• Nate’s Halloween Finger Puppets

Looking for more? Don’t forget these free printables that celebrate our favorite food – honey!

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For the littles in your life, we have Nate’s Buzzworthy Menus to keep them coloring while you’re in the kitchen. Each one features a favorite, kid-friendly recipe that you can try together when the time is right. For older kiddos, we have some activity sheets that will keep them buzzing with brainbusters, hidden pictures and search & find puzzles.

Add in freestyle drawing sheets for any age, and your kids can enjoy free time even more.

• Nate’s Buzzworthy Menus
• Brainbusters
• Hidden Pictures
• Search & Find
• Freestyle Drawing Sheets

Can’t get enough of these printables? Check out these free sheets with Long Live the Bees lesson plans and more Nate’s activities.

All this fun making you hungry? Try one of our latest recipes. We promise it’ll be tasty with Nate’s 100% pure, raw & unfiltered honey.

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As a little honey company specializing in bringing 100% pure sweetness into your lives, we have some ideas for how to make the most of your new normal, whatever that may look like. And you can also count on us for prayers that you and your family stay safe this spring and discover all the many ways to find happiness right within arm’s reach. 

Hit Refresh in the Kitchen

Cooking brings happiness to some; whereas others enjoy the eating part most. Whatever brings you joy, getting in the kitchen to prepare and sample new recipes might be exactly what you need. Honey and thyme glazed flatbread makes for a five-star family pizza night, and there’s never been a better time to enjoy a citrus-packed slushie while basking in the sun on the front porch. And don’t get us started on these Honey Oat Bites. All we’ll say is you’ll want to go ahead and double the recipe. Trust us.

• Ham & Asparagus Pizza
• Vitamin C Slushie
• Honey Oat Bites

Family Date Night

Anyone with children knows sometimes it’s just flat out impossible to avoid stir crazy. Use family date night as everyone’s motivation to push through another long day by promising a night of fun and togetherness at the end. Once everyone has finished working and learning from home for the day, head out on an early evening scavenger hunt – we’ve already started it for you! Top the fun off with stovetop s’mores before settling in for a family movie.

• Scavenger Hunt Printable
• Honey Cloud S’mores 

Keep Learning Light

Let’s face it, not all of us were meant to homeschool our kids, and many of us are realizing (if we didn’t already know it) that teachers are superheroes. Our Long Live The Bees lesson plan has nine printable and educational activity pages for your sweet busy bees. That’s more than a week’s worth! If your kids are missing their school teachers and friends, share the plans with friends, so they can join in the fun from their house. Then let the kids have a Show-Off Day via Facetime, so everyone can share their handy work!

• Long Live The Bees
• Make Good Food Choices
• Colorful Bees

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These three printables are inspired by nature and will get your kiddos learning about the wonders of the outdoors. From building an outdoor scavenger hunt to coloring different parts of a bee, these activities will keep the kids entertained on both sunny and drizzly days. And they will learn about the world around them too!

Outdoor Scavenger Hunt

This scavenger hunt worksheet is a great way to inspire some outdoor fun. Try searching for a ladybug and finding different shaped rocks. Or identify different birds and create a bouquet of flowers.

We’ve started you off with a few ideas, and left blank spaces for you to fill in the scavenger hunt wheel with your own ideas too. You can even create multiple scavenger hunts for different places you visit: one for the backyard, one for the park and one for the arboretum, or wherever else you frequently enjoy spring.

Colorful Bees

Meet this adorable little bee friend who is ready to be given some color. Grab some markers, colored pencils or crayons and follow the color by numbers. You can even try beeswax crayons and talk about how the bees helped make them.

Channel your inner artist and have fun coloring in a new bee friend. Try to identify six different parts of a bee. Can you find its antennae, eyes, wings, thorax, abdomen, stinger and legs?

Don’t forget about its honey and flower pal! Bees collect nectar from different flowers in order to make honey. In fact, the flavor and color of honey depend on which type of flower the bee visits. What type of flower will you color?

Meet a Beekeeper

With this beekeeper printout, you can learn what being a beekeeper entails. Cut out his suit and dress him up, so he doesn’t get stung! You can glue your beekeeper to a craft stick and turn him into a puppet. Or, glue your beekeeper onto a sheet of paper and draw a colorful scene around him full of bees and flowers.

This printout also contains important questions about deciding to become a beekeeper. Did you know that some beekeepers take their hives to warmer climates throughout the year? Or that it’s very important to have beekeepers who care for their bees and keep them healthy? Could you become a beekeeper?

With these 3 printable activities, you can keep your little ones engaged rain or shine. Help build the kids’ curiosity about nature and cultivate the imaginations of your little explorers!

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Because of our commitment, we’ve created two lesson plans for elementary school teachers. With our two free-bee lesson plans, you can help your students learn the importance of making good food choices and understand the role of bees in our world. Each lesson plan is equipped with various ideas and activities that you can pick and choose to tailor to your specific classroom or you can follow the full guide. Did we mention it’s free?

Make Good Food Choices: A Lesson on Making Informed Decisions on What We Eat

Setting kids up for nutritional success starts with teaching them good eating habits at a young age. Our lesson plan for elementary-aged kids does just this! It’s a way for you to talk about real foods and it helps kids understand the importance of making healthy food choices.

Our comprehensive Make Good Food Choices plan includes various printable classroom activities, plus a thorough teacher guide with discussion topics.  Within this unit, students will learn what a balanced plate looks like and where their foods come from. Students will also learn how to choose wisely in the grocery store and how their food impacts their growing bodies.

Through our creative activities, kids will learn about various food groups and aspects of nutrition in an interactive way. With our build-your-plate activity and putting things in your grocery cart, you can teach students how to make good food decisions. This unit is laid out for you to easily follow or can serve as a springboard for your own ideas to teach young minds the importance of real, nutritious foods!

Long Live the Bees: A Lesson on Honey Bee Health

Our bee-focused lesson plans go way beyond honey! Within this unit, you can teach students about differing climates, pollination, insect anatomy, U.S. geography and the beekeeping profession.

With 8 different lessons, you can spread the unit out or pick and choose segments to do in one day. Our free-bee Long Live the Bees lesson plan includes these 8 lessons with clear learning objectives, a comprehensive teacher guide and 9 printable activity pages. Students can color in states with warmer climates where bees would be happiest. They can dress up a beekeeper and learn about the job. And, they can match plants to pollinators, learning what makes bees happy!

An important step in safeguarding the future of bees is teaching the next generation about their vital role in our ecosystem. As children learn the role of bees, they can grow up looking out for them. We believe that teachers have an essential role in helping us cultivate the next generation of bee advocates!

The Adventures of Nature Nate: A Nature-Based Storytelling Lesson

This lesson will teach your preschoolers or early elementary ages the elements of a story and activate their creative minds. They’ll use their hands to construct a forest setting and have free reign with the characters. Let them tell the story to you!

They’ll also learn about elements in nature, how water affects our world and some world geography. Of course, there’s a sensory activity of honey tasting as well.

Get all three free lesson plans today and show us on Instagram how you and your littles use them! Tag @naturenates

The Nate’s Difference

Nate’s rigorous in-house testing ensures that our honey maintains its real, natural qualities. It is tested for a clean read of antibiotics, pesticides and herbicides. Nate’s raw & unfiltered honey is sold at most major retailers in the U.S. Pick up a bottle next time you’re shopping for groceries.

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