(ENG/ESP) 🐝 Topper bee for pencil 🍯 Abeja Topper para lápiz

Hello, dear readers. I hope you are having or have had a wonderful day. As every year, our friends at #diyhub invite us to participate in a contest in honor of our beloved and industrious bees. (Here is the link for those who want to participate).

Last year, due to power outages in my country, I was unable to post on time and was left out of the contest, but this year I got busy with my little bee and here I am participating.

What I like most about bees is their honey. Did you know that a bee can visit up to 7,000 flowers in a day? But it takes more than 4 million visits to flowers to produce one liter of honey. It's incredible what these bees can do.

But the good thing is that we can also do something for them, such as planting flowers, not using pesticides, taking care of trees, and preventing the destruction of their natural habitat, where they can build their hives. Above all, we must be aware that bees are one of the most important animals for the existence of our planet, because without them, the planet would be lifeless in just a few years.

For my entry in this contest, I will show you step by step how to make a beautiful bee out of crepe paper.

STEP BY STEP

With a sheet of Bond paper, I cut it in half and made two balls.

The first ball I made, wrapping the top of the pencil, in order to leave a hole, as shown in the picture.

And the second ball, if I make it complete, and to make sure that it doesn't fall apart, I glue all around it, trying to make sure that the cracks are well closed. And once the balls are ready, I glue one on top of the other.

Use the yellow crepe paper in strips, I didn't really measure them, but they are approximately 5 x 15 cm.

After being rolled up, I push the paper towards the center, trying to make it look like an accordion and then carefully remove the sticks.

It looks like this. With a toothpick, I did the same procedure, but this time, only using a toothpick, that is, to use it on the antennae of the bee.

And so they stayed. Make enough to cover the entire bee.

Once everything is ready, I assemble the bee. I place a yellow strip at the bottom, leaving a space where the pencil will be, and then I alternate the colors, one yellow and one black.

With the flesh-colored foamy, I cut out a circle to make the face. And glue it to the head of the bee.

I glue a black strip to give shape to the edge of the face, as you can see in the image. And I finish filling the whole head with the black strips.

Since I don't have white crepe paper, I thought of using toilet paper, it's the closest thing I could find. So with two sheets of paper and a tall stick, I made some strips, which I then glued in a "U" shape to form what would be the wings.

Once the wings are ready, I glue them to the back of the bee's body.

With the yellow tubes, I put the antennae and made small black balls that I glued on the tip of each antenna. I also made a thin black strip, I glued it all over the strip to make it hard and form the sting of the bee, then I glued it in the middle of the wings, to also cover the union of the wings.

Finally, with the black and pink pencil, I decorated the little face. I also cut out a small circle to glue as a nose.

And that's how beautiful my hard-working little bee looked.

I hope you liked this tutorial that I have gladly prepared for you. I say goodbye as always, but not before thanking you for taking a little of your valuable time to visit my blog and support me. And as the saying goes: "Do good, without looking at whom".

Original creation content:

🐝 All photos are mine, taken and edited with my Infinix SMART 8 phone.

🍯 Cover image and materials were made with Canva app and edited by me.

🐝 The English translation was made with the help of deepl.com/translator

🍯 The images of the dividers were taken from: glitter-graphics.com

🐝 The letters indicating the languages were made on es.textstudio.com and edited by me.

Hola mis queridos lectores, espero que tengan o hayan tenido un excelente día. Como todos los años, nuestros amigos de #diyhub, nos invitan a participar en un concurso en honor a nuestras queridas y laboriosas abejas. (Aquí les dejo el enlace para aquellos que quieran participar).

El año pasado, por problemas de luz en mi país, no pude publicar a tiempo y quede fuera del concurso, pero este año ya me puse activa con mi abejita y aquí estoy participando.

Lo que más me gusta de las abejas, es su miel. ¿Sabías que una abeja, puede visitar hasta 7.000 mil flores en un día? Pero se necesita más de 4 millones de visitas a las flores, para producir un litro de miel. Es increíble lo que estas abejas pueden hacer.

Pero lo bueno es que también podemos hacer algo por ellas, como sembrar flores, no usando pesticidas, cuidando los árboles y evitando la destrucción del hábitat natural, donde puedan crear sus colmenas. Y sobre todo, tomar conciencia de que las abejas son unos de los animales más importantes para la existencia de nuestro planeta, pues sin ellas, el planeta quedaría sin vida en muy pocos años.

Para mi participación en este concurso, les muestro el paso a paso de como elabore una hermosa abeja, con papel crepe.

PASO A PASO

Con una hoja de papel Bond, la corte por la mitad y realicé dos pelotas.

La primera pelota la hice, envolviendo la parte de arriba del lápiz, con el fin de que quede un hueco, tal como se muestra en la imagen.

Y la segunda pelota, si la hago completa, y para asegurarme de que no se me deshaga, le echo pega por todo el alrededor, tratando de que quede bien cerradas las hendiduras. Y ya listas las pelotas, pego una encima de la otra.

Utilice el papel crepe amarillo en tiras, realmente no las medí, pero tienen un aproximado de 5 x 15 cm.

Enrolle el papel crepe en uno de los palos y lo enrolle hasta la mitad de la tira, luego enrolle el resto del papel en el otro palo. Cuando ya uní los dos enrollados, trate de que queden bien apretados, pero con mucho cuidado para que no se rompa el papel, pues es bastante débil.

Después de estar enrollados, empujo el papel hacia el centro, tratando de que quede como un acordeón para luego retirar con mucho cuidado los palitos.

Quedando de esta manera. Con un palillo de dientes, hice el mismo procedimiento, pero esta vez, solo usando un palillo, esto es, para usarlo en las antenas de la abeja.

Y así quedaron. Realice lo suficiente como para que cubra toda la abeja.

Una vez ya con todo listo, armo la abeja. Coloco una tira amarilla en la parte de abajo, dejando es espacio por donde quedara el