What would it be like to be tiny like a bee?
This challenge is all about seeing the world through different eyes.
What do you know about bees? How do they see and experience the world? What questions do you have about bees? What research could you do? How could you change the way you see the world? What do you notice when you use a magnifying glass, microscope or view finder? How would it feel to be tiny? What could be the advantages and disadvantages?
Question challenge
Pupils from Greengables Nursery, Edinburgh have come up with a question to inspire you. This short video shows how they came up with the question 'What would it be like to be tiny like a bee?' Taking this question as a starting point, use the How to grow ideas resource to think, wonder and create your own unique artwork. You might end up making something that looks nothing like the starting point.
Artists meet the challenge
Find out how artist and art therapist Catherine O’Brien used the question 'what would it be like to be tiny like a bee?' to inspire her to make art.
Get started
All of the challenges in Your Art World are open-ended to encourage creative thinking. The getting started pages help children to think for themselves and figure out what matters to them.
Share your art
You can send us your art any time and we’ll add it to the online gallery as soon as we can. You could win art materials just by taking part.
