My BEE-autiful Crochet Bee Plushie is the perfect bee pattern for any skill level! As long as you can single crochet in the round, this free honey bee crochet pattern should not be a problem for you to tackle!
I love bees, I mean who doesn’t? Bees are necessary for our survival so why not show them a bit of love by makinging a crochet bee amigurumi!
Bees are great for any occasion - birthdays, school, baby showers - the list is endless and the recipient will think of them as un-BEE-lievably cute.
If you are thinking about making the crochet bee pattern for a baby shower, then you can pair it with my crochet honeycomb blanket, it's more like a lovey and can be a great addition to a bee themed baby shower gift!
Other cute blankets you can pair the crochet amigurumi bee with are my crochet strawberry blanket and crochet grit stitch blanket.
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✏️ Things To Note:
- I used acrylic yarn, but any yarn type can work for the pattern. Even cotton yarn can work. If you use cotton and have leftover yellow and white yarn you could make crochet daisy coasters.
- If this is for a child under 3 years of age, please do not use safety eyes as they can pop off from the toy and become lodged in the child's throat if they accidentally ate them. Instead embroider the eyes with yarn. I do this with my crochet giraffe pattern since it is also meant to be for small children as a crinkle toy.
- The finished crochet bee plushie is roughly 8 inches big once completed.
🪡 Materials Needed
- 5mm crochet hook
- Tapestry needle
- Caron One Pound Black yarn
- Caron One Pound Yellow yarn
- Caron One Pound White yarn
- 10mm safety eyes
💭Abbreviations to Remember (US terms)
- Magic ring - mr
- Single crochet - sc
- Increase - inc
- Decrease - dec
🍵Instructions for Crochet Bee Plushie Pattern
For the crochet bee plush pattern, we will mostly be working in rounds.
Crochet Bee Head:
Round 1: Using the yellow yarn, make a mr and make sc x6 in the circle. If you find it difficult making a magic ring you can chain 2 and then crochet sc x6 in the second chain from the hook. (6)
Round 2: Inc in every sc. (12)
Round 3: Inc, sc, inc, sc and then repeat until end of round (18)
Round 4: Inc, sc x2, inc, sc x2. Then repeat until end of round (24)
Round 5: Inc, sc x3, inc, sc x3. Then repeat until end of round (30)
Round 6: Inc, sc x4, inc, sc x4. Then repeat until end of round (36)
Round 7: Inc, sc x5, inc, sc x5. Then repeat until end of round (42)
Round 8-9: Sc x42 (42)
Round 10: Inc, sc x6, inc, sc x6. Then repeat until end of round (48)
Round 11-15: Sc x48 (48)
Round 16: Dec, sc x4, dec, sc x4. Then repeat until end of round (40)
Round 17: Dec, sc x3, dec, sc x3. Then repeat until the end of round (32) If you haven’t placed the safety eyes, now is a great time to do so.
Round 18: Dec, sc x2, dec, sc x2. Then repeat until end of round (24)
Round 19: Dec, sc, dec, sc. Then repeat until end of round (16)
Round 20: Dec in every stitch. (8) After this round fasten off the yarn and weave in any ends.
Crochet Bee Body:
Round 1: Using the black yarn, make a mr and make sc x6 in the circle (6).
Round 2: Inc, sc, and then repeat for the rest of the round (9).
Round 3-6: Sc in every stitch. (9)
Round 7: Inc, sc x2, and then repeat for the rest of the round (12).
Round 8: Inc, sc, and then repeat for the rest of the round (18).
Round 9: Inc, sc x2. Then repeat until end of round (24)
Round 10: Inc, sc x3. Then repeat until end of round (30)
Round 11: Inc, sc x4. Then repeat until end of round (36)
Round 12: Inc, sc x5. Then repeat until end of round (42)
Round 13: Inc, sc x6. Then repeat until the end of round (48). Fasten off the black yarn and switch the yarn color to yellow.
Round 14-18: Using the yellow yarn, sc in every stitch. (48) After the 18th round, fasten off the yellow yarn and then switch it to black.
Round 19: Sc in every stitch using the black yarn. (48)
Round 20: Dec, sc x6. Then repeat for the rest of the round. (42)
Round 21-22: Sc in every stitch. (42).
Round 23: Dec, sc x5. Then repeat for the rest of the round (36). After this round, fasten off the black yarn and rejoin the yellow yarn.
Round 24: Sc in every stitch (36). Proceed to stuff the bee body if you haven’t already.
Round 25: Dec, sc x4. Then repeat for the rest of the round (30).
Round 26: Dec, sc x3. Then repeat for the rest of the round (24). Then fasten off the yellow yarn but leave a long enough tail to sew the body and head together.
Crochet Bee Wings:
Round 1: Using the white yarn, make a mr and make sc x6 in the circle. (6)
Round 2: Inc in every sc. (12)
Round 3: Inc, sc. Then repeat until end of round (18).
Round 4: Inc, sc x2. Then repeat until end of round (24).
Round 5: Sc in every stitch (24).
Round 6: Sc x20, then dec 4 together. This helps create a pointy-ish end that will be sewn to the middle of the bee's back.
Then fasten off the yarn and leave a tail for sewing.
Crochet Bee Arms:
Make 2.
Round 1: Using the black yarn, make a mr and make sc x6 in the circle (6).
Round 2: Inc, sc, and repeat for the rest of the round (9).
Round 3-9: Sc in every stitch. (9) Fasten off the yarn but then leave a long enough tail to sew to the body of the bee.
Crochet Antennas:
Make x2.
Round 1: Using the black yarn, make a mr and make sc x6 in the circle (6).
Round 2-4: Sc in every stitch. (6)
Round 5: Dec, sc x2 (4). Then fasten off the yarn and then leave a tail for sewing to the top of the bee's head.
Finishing:
Sew the body to the head, the antennas to the head, the arms to the body, and the wings to the bees back. After that, embroider a smiley face to the bee’s head. Then trim up any loose yarn ends, and you’re finished!
And now you have a really cute crochet bee plushie! I hope you liked the pattern!
If you have a lot of extra black and white yarn after creating the crochet bee amigurumi, you can use the leftovers to make a crochet orca bag as well as a crochet linen scarf.
🐌Expert Tips
Use long pins or holding sticks for holding pieces of your crochet bee amigurumi together while you sew pieces together.
🧵Pattern FAQs
They can be - they can be simple or more intricate like this one. If you are wanting to make a simpler one, I do have a simple crochet bee pattern available as part of my bee crochet lovey.
I use long needles to pin them in place, I know others use skewers.
You can use cotton filling, as well as yarn scraps (no one will even notice!).
🧶More Crochet Animal Patterns
If you tried this Crochet Bee Plushie Pattern (or any other pattern on my website), please let me know how it went in the 📝 comments below. I'd love to hear from you!
Crochet Bee Plushie Pattern
Materials
Abbreviations (US terms)
- Magic ring - mr
- Single crochet - sc
- Increase - inc
- Decrease - dec
Notes
If this is for a child under 3 years of age, please do not use safety eyes as they can pop off from the toy and become lodged in the child's throat if they accidentally ate them. Instead embroider the eyes with yarn. I do this with my crochet giraffe pattern since it is also meant to be for small children as a crinkle toy.
The finished crochet bee plushie is roughly 8 inches big once completed.
Instructions
- For the crochet bee plush pattern we will mostly be working in rounds.
Crochet Bee Head
- Round 1: Using the yellow yarn, make a mr and make sc x6 in the circle. If you find it difficult making a magic ring you can chain 2 and then crochet sc x6 in the second chain from the hook. (6)
- Round 2: Inc in every sc. (12)
- Round 3: Inc, sc, inc, sc and repeat until end of round (18)
- Round 4: Inc, sc x2, inc, sc x2. Then repeat until end of round (24)
- Round 5: Inc, sc x3, inc, sc x3. Then repeat until end of round (30)
- Round 6: Inc, sc x4, inc, sc x4. Then repeat until end of round (36)
- Round 7: Inc, sc x5, inc, sc x5. Then repeat until end of round (42)
- Round 8-9: Sc x42 (42)
- Round 10: Inc, sc x6, inc, sc x6. Then repeat until end of round (48)
- Round 11-15: Sc x48 (48)
- Round 16: Dec, sc x4, dec, sc x4. Then repeat until end of round (40)
- Round 17: Dec, sc x3, dec, sc x3. Then repeat until the end of round (32) If you haven’t placed the safety eyes, now is a great time to do so.
- Round 18: Dec, sc x2, dec, sc x2. Then repeat until end of round (24)
- Round 19: Dec, sc, dec, sc. Then repeat until end of round (16)
- Round 20: Dec in every stitch. (8) After this round fasten off the yarn and weave in any ends.
Crochet Bee Body:
- Round 1: Using the black yarn, make a mr and make sc x6 in the circle (6).
- Round 2: Inc, sc, and repeat for the rest of the round (9).
- Round 3-6: Sc in every stitch. (9)
- Round 7: Inc, sc x2, and repeat for the rest of the round (12).
- Round 8: Inc, sc, and repeat for the rest of the round (18).
- Round 9: Inc, sc x2. Then repeat until end of round (24)
- Round 10: Inc, sc x3. Then repeat until end of round (30)
- Round 11: Inc, sc x4. Then repeat until end of round (36)
- Round 12: Inc, sc x5. Then repeat until end of round (42)
- Round 13: Inc, sc x6. Then repeat until the end of round (48). Fasten off the black yarn and switch the yarn color to yellow.
- Round 14-18: Using the yellow yarn, sc in every stitch. (48) After the 18th round, fasten off the yellow yarn and switch it to black.
- Round 19: Sc in every stitch using the black yarn. (48)
- Round 20: Dec, sc x6. Then repeat for the rest of the round. (42)
- Round 21-22: Sc in every stitch. (42).
- Round 23: Dec, sc x5. Then repeat for the rest of the round (36). After this round, fasten off the black yarn and rejoin the yellow yarn.
- Round 24: Sc in every stitch (36). Proceed to stuff the bee body if you haven’t already.
- Round 25: Dec, sc x4. Then repeat for the rest of the round (30).
- Round 26: Dec, sc x3. Then repeat for the rest of the round (24). Fasten off the yellow yarn, but leave a long enough tail to sew the body and head together.
Crochet Bee Arms:
- Make 2.
- Round 1: Using the black yarn, make a mr and make sc x6 in the circle (6).
- Round 2: Inc, sc, and repeat for the rest of the round (9).
- Round 3-9: Sc in every stitch. (9) Fasten off the yarn but leave a long enough tail to sew to the body of the bee.
Crochet Antennas:
- Make x2.
- Round 1: Using the black yarn, make a mr and make sc x6 in the circle (6).
- Round 2-4: Sc in every stitch. (6)
- Round 5: Dec, sc x2 (4). Then fasten off the yarn and leave a tail for sewing to the top of the bee's head.
Crochet Bee Wings:
- Round 1: Using the white yarn, make a mr and make sc x6 in the circle. (6)
- Round 2: Inc in every sc. (12)
- Round 3: Inc, sc. Then repeat until end of round (18).
- Round 4: Inc, sc x2. Then repeat until end of round (24).
- Round 5: Sc in every stitch (24).
- Round 6: Sc x20, then dec 4 together. This helps create a pointy-ish end that will be sewn to the middle of the bee's back.
FInishing:
- Sew the body to the head, the antennas to the head, the arms to the body, and the wings to the bees back. After that, embroider a smiley face to the bee’s head. Trim up any loose yarn ends, and you’re finished!
- And now you have a really cute crochet bee plushie! I hope you liked the pattern!
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