Our Stake theme this year at camp is 'Unity in the Hive' and our ward theme is 'Humble Bumblebees' our color is Red and we are Individual Worth. Can you be humble and red :-)

Notes from Alice @ YW Connection...what about serving honey butter on hot biscuits, or "bum bum bumblebee, bumblebee  tuna, I love bumlebee,   bumblebe tuna" (sing the song °Ü°)  sandwiches? 

Contributed by: Judy Bishop krbjrb@earthlink.net

I thought about making up a song or cheer to the song, " I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee". Also, you can do handouts for devotionals or fireside themes with ideas like, "BEE-utiful You", or "Be all you can BEE". You can teach them that they can be beautiful and be proud of who they are and still be humble! They are Heavenly Father's creation and he did not want them to be so humble they are a nobody-You can be humble and be a queen bee.

Contributed by: S Kirk sapkirk@hotmail.com

A woman I used to work with always wore a bee pin on her collar or shoulder. She said aerodynamically a bee shouldn't be able to fly. It's wings were too short and body too big. Might work for the humble part or individual worth.

We have beekeepers in our ward. (One is our home teacher) The bees aren't too particular about what kind of flower they like (clover, fruit trees, weeds). The keeper has to place the hive near the flowers he wants the bees to use. The flower determines the taste of the honey. In our area, the hives are put in the almond, peach, plumb and orange orchards to pollinate in the spring. After that, many go into a refrigerated dormancy. Some get moved to some fields - I think they're alfalfa.

Don't know that any of that has anything to do with red. What a stretch to tie those two together!

Contributed by:Tanya Stelly, Sulphur, LA

Just an idea--but perhaps you can get in touch with beekeepers in the area (BTW, it makes a great talk/presentation about how bees work, organize, make  honey, etc.) Ask about what different types of flowers bees use to produce  honey--any that are red colored? Tulips? Canna lilies? Geraniums? Roses?  I really don't know, so you could ask around. Call the agricultural  extension agent for your area and ask if they know any beekeepers.

Once you get a red flower, talk about the individual worth of that flower to the bee--what it provides, what it can help produce. If the YW present were a field of flowers, then each individual has great worth--especially to the bees who need SO MANY to produce honey. The Lord needs SO MANY to do the work. Each has a work that "no other can do."

You could give the girls a packet of the seeds of that type of flower, or a bulb, or a cutting, or a small bedding plant of it for them to take home.