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Honeybee Centre – Cool & Smart Things To Do With Kids in Surrey BC

Honeybee Centre: Both Family Fun and Learning, Spiced-up With Delicious Honey

Happy to share one of our latest coolest discovery of all things to do with kids in Surrey BC – Honeybee Centre! We had an adventure of attending “Day of The Honeybee” family event put on by the bee centre. Let's just say, it was a lot of fun for our 3yo Cosmos, and quite a bit of bee education for the everyone in our family! Bee activities, workshops, flower planting.. you name it!

Honeybee Centre is a commercial honey bee farm, honey gift store, a honey packing facility, tourists attraction, a High Tea restaurant and a fun family education station located in Surrey, British Columbia. DIRECTIONS HERE.

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Day of The Honeybee Event

On June 1st, 2019 the centre opened doors with Day of The Honeybee – a cool event full of kids activities both indoor and outdoor. Beekeeping demonstrations, educational workshops, crafts and games for kids, face painting, flower planting, hot dog and bbq party in the Community Bee Garden, you name it! Of all the things to do with kids in Surrey BC on that day, the Honeybee centre event rocked!

Our family visited for the very first time, and we are happy we came. We absolutely loved how much the centre is kids and family-oriented, all ages can find fun in learning.

Learning About Bees

FACT: Our whole family literally got honey-glued to the glass-open beehive, watching bees come and go and work on their honeycomb, and doing their other bee activities “on camera”! You can find this wonderful smart experience right inside the honeybee store. Best thing – they have more fun indoor kids activities there: from books to puzzles to posters.

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We then watched how the baby-bees are being born, and what happens to the bee parents. Honeybee centre staff was the most knowledgeable, explained all the phases and steps bees are going through in their lives.

Cosmos especially enjoyed the Flowers & Bees presentation at the community room.

He rushed to the garden to plant his own little sunflower right after using the staff-provided equipment. Then our little one asked to go to the store to buy more seeds and plant a flower garden at home so bees can come live with us! Of all bee activities, Cosmos definitely enjoyed planing the most! We did take our new “flower garden” home 🙂

Over the lunchtime we've enjoyed the outdoor musical performance in the community garden, while Cosmos alongside other kids, was well-occupied constructing his very own honeycomb.

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Honeybee Store & Gift Shop

Of course, we could not leave the Honeybee Centre without a sweet treat! Honeybee Store & Gift Shop sells raw honey from its honey bee farm. The hardest thing was to make a choice of what to get in the store – so many amazing delicious options! Decided to try-out the speciality cinnamon-infused honey spread – yummm.

Alongside the sweets, the store offers a good selection of healthy and nutritional products, natural care products, and of course the bee wax candles.

Honeybee Centre gift-shop was officially added to our list of eco-friendly stores for shopping!

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Bee Education and Workshops

Among all the indoor activities for kids, we always prefer smart ones where our son can learn through play.

The Honeybee Centre offers a wide variety of bee education programs for all ages: from school trips to junior beekeeper home-learner classes to fun DIY projects to group presentations and workshops. Want to learn more about honey bee farm and even participate in bee farm activities hands-on?! Then the Honeybee Centre is perfect for you! You can check-out bee centre's Event Calendar HERE to learn about upcoming events and bee education workshops.

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BEEstro – Honeybee Centre Cafe

The Honeybee Centre has recently added a cafe – Fry's Corner BEEstro (clever name, right?) where the whole family can enjoy a delicious High Tea! Oh… we just love high teas! Unlike other places, the beestro serves high tea all week long – Mon-Sun 10am-5pm.

If you haven't already, we strongly recommend to check it out!

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A Note on Sustainability

Regretfully, more and more natural habitats for bees are disappearing. This happens largely due to rapid urbanization, but also due to global pollution crisis and climate change. As a result, honeybees struggle to survive and are in danger. Honeybees have an important place in natural cycles, and without them, entire eco-systems can be threatened to vanish.

In our opinion, it is extremely important to introduce your children to the topic of sustainability, make them environmentally aware, teach them the reduce-reuse-recycle concepts early. Where do you start? Here are a few suggestions:

Smart Eco-Friendly Family Activities: Teach Kids Sustainability Practices

Top Children’s Books On Environment: Teach Kids to Reduce, Reuse & Recycle

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Do you know of any other cool things to do with kids in or around Surrey BC? Or do you have a recommendation for other smart educational indoor toddler activities in Surrey BC? Send us a note!

Otherwise, for more Fun Eco-friendly Family Activities check out our Learning section!

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Cheerfully yours,

Alexandra, Alex & Cosmos

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