Hanna Honeybee
Hanna Honeybee Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Contents
1 beehive (= insertion and box bottom), 1 Hanna Honeybee, 10 flower tiles, 1 honey pot (= deposit board), 1 die, 1 game instructions
Important: Carefully remove the perforated tiles from the plate. Immediately discard the plate, as small parts may result from removing the tiles.
Discovering Details with Creative Play
Before actually playing the game, take the time to discover the game contents with your child. Play along! Explore and talk about the beehive illustrations (= box), the honey pot and the flower tiles. Before playing for the first time, talk about Hanna Honeybee, how she flies from flower to flower collecting sweet nectar to bring back to the hive. Lay the flower side of the tiles next to the beehive and show your child how the colors correspond to the colors on the die. Practice rolling the die and tossing the corresponding tile into the beehive. Thus, your child becomes familiar with allocating colors and discovers the beehive mechanism. When a flower is thrown into the beehive, a drop of honey comes out at the bottom.
Older children, who are already familiar with the game materials, can also be asked specific questions about beehives. For example, how many bees are flying around the beehive? Did you discover the ladybugs? How many ladybugs are there? Where is the butterfly? Can you find the yellow, pink, etc. flowers?
Sharing fun makes your child emotionally strong and cheerful! It lends your child positive reinforcement and fosters solidarity within the family or community where the game is played.
Game 1: Sweet Honey Greetings from the Wildflower Meadow
A cooperative honey-collecting game.
Before You Begin
Fold out the inserter and remove the other game materials from the box. Fold the inserter back together and place the beehive upright for all children to see, and at a distance they all can reach. Distribute the 10 tiles over the playing area with the flower side up. Place Hanna Honeybee, the honey pot (= deposit board) and the die close at hand.
Let's Play!
The game proceeds clockwise. The child who most recently ate bread and honey gets to roll the die first.
Ask the child, what do you see on the die?
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A color: What is this color called? Help the child when she/he is not yet certain. Fly with Hanna Honeybee to a flower of the same color. Take the tile and throw it in the upper slot in the beehive with the flower side up. Look what happens! The tile comes out of the bottom slot with the honey side up.
Now you may lay the tile with the honey side up on any free space on the honey pot.
When there are no more tiles with the corresponding color, it is the next child's turn.
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The flower symbol: One flower is already wilted and has no more nectar for Hanna Honeybee. Take any flower tile and lay it to the side. This tile is no longer in the game.
Now, the next child can roll the die.
End of the Game
When the children have laid six honey tiles on the honey pot, they and Hanna Honeybee have won all together!
If too many wilted flowers have been eliminated and there are no longer six honey tiles to lay on the honey pot, Hanna and the children unfortunately do not have enough nectar to fill the honey pot. But keep trying; you will have better luck next time! Shall we play another round?
Game 2: Busy Bees Find Colorful Flowers
An amusing color memory game.
Before You Begin
Fold out the inserter and remove the other game materials from the box. Fold the inserter back together and place the beehive upright for all children to see, and at a distance they all can reach. Distribute the 10 tiles over the playing area with the honey side up. Place Hanna Honeybee, the honey pot (= deposit board) and the die close at hand.
Let's Play!
The game proceeds clockwise. The child who most recently has seen a bee gets to roll the die first.
Ask the child, what do you see on the die?
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A color: What is this color called? Help the child when she/he is not yet certain. Fly with Hanna Honeybee to a tile and turn the tile over. Is it the flower the same color as on the die?
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Yes! Take the tile and throw it in the upper slot in the beehive with the flower side up. Look what happens! The tile comes out of the bottom slot with the honey side up.
Now you may lay the tile with the honey side up on any free space on the honey pot.
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No! If you can name the color of the flower correctly, you can turn over another honey tile. Once the child has turned over all the tiles and there are no more tiles of the corresponding color, it is the next child's turn.
When appropriate, turn all flower tiles back over to show the honey side up.
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The flower symbol: Hanna Honeybee is running out of nectar. Take any honey tile and lay it aside. This tile is no longer in the game.
Now, the next child can roll the die.
End of the Game
When the children have laid six honey tiles on the honey pot, they and Hanna Honeybee have won! If too many wilted flowers have been eliminated and there are no longer six honey tiles to lay on the honey pot, Hanna and the children unfortunately do not have enough nectar to fill the honey pot. But keep trying; you will have better luck next time! Shall we play another round?
About Bees, for Older Children
Bees live in large families called swarms. There is a queen, male bees (called drones) and worker bees with various jobs, such as guards, collectors and honeycomb workers keeping house inside the hive. The collectors do not carry a bucket; they collect the nectar in a honey sac, also called a honey stomach. Back at the hive, they spit out the nectar and the hive bees absorb it in their honey stomachs and bring the ripe honey to the honeycomb. The honey is food for the larvae (= bee babies) as well as the winter provisions for the whole swarm.
A beekeeper can "harvest" the honey. He takes the honeycomb out of the hive, removes the layer of wax and carefully spins out the honey, using a special machine. And then anyone with a sweet tooth can have delightful bread and honey.
Bees and other insects are very important for farmers and wildflowers. Fruits trees, grains and all other plants need bees to pollinate. When the bees take the nectar from a blossom, they carry pollen (flower dust) from blossom to blossom. Fruits like apples and strawberries, and grains like wheat all need bee pollen to produce their frui ts.
More information can be found at www.haba.de/spielzeug/haba-erleben