Cooking with your little honeys is a fun activity for after school or on wet weekends. And while you're cooking up these delicious honey treats, it's easy to teach kids about good nutrition and where food comes from.
Most kids know that apples grow on apple trees.
First, honey bees gather nectar from the flower of a plant, often pollinating the plant in the process. As the bees fly from flower to flower, their wings beat up to 11,400 times per minute, producing the familiar buzz we hear. They return to their hive with the nectar. In a magical process that involves all the bees working together the nectar is transformed into thick, delicious honey and deposited into the cells of the wax honeycomb inside the hive. Finally, the bees cap each cell with wax.