Credit: Bee Campus USA California State University Sacramento, CA Committee
Event and Outreach Kits
As a benefit to our Bee City and Bee Campus affiliates, we provide digital “promo kits” to help affiliates easily share pollinator conservation tools within their communities for for in-person and online events and outreach.
These online kits includes items like:
- Printable handouts,
- Ideas for events and activities,
- Social media images and talking points,
- Template op-eds,
- Links for further reading, and more.
We hope these kits allow you to quickly disseminate information in a way that is easy to read and share. Stay tuned for more kits!
Do you have a kit idea you would like us to create? Please let us know at [email protected].
Kits for Specific Events (updated annually)
- February 14: Valentine’s Day Mini Social Media Kit
- Week of April 22: Earth Week Kit
- Third week of June: Pollinator Week Kit
- Fall/Winter: Leave the Leaves Kit
Kits for Anytime of the Year
- Toolkit: Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Plan Designed to help your municipality, county, or school create an IPM Plan, a commitment of Bee City USA and Bee Campus USA.
- Toolkit: Bee Friendly Lawns Includes printable “Low Mow Zone” lawn signs
- Host a film screening, The Little Things That Run The World A documentary you can screen for a fee or sell tickets.
- Host a free film screening of My Garden of a Thousand Bees A documentary free to screen.
- Pesticide Reduction Outreach Kit Tools to help you give two presentations on pesticide reduction in your community.
Printable Outreach Tools (General)
See more in Promo Kits above.
NEW! Xerces Society’s Gardener’s Almanac for Invertebrate Conservation
Xerces Society’s kid-friendly outreach materials including:
- X Kids Activity Books and Invertebrate Protector Badges – English and Español
- Bumble bee and butterfly masks
- Videos
- “Searching for Bugs” foliage, soil, and flower scouting worksheets
Xerces Society’s regionally-specific Recommended Native Plant Lists, including:
- Native Plants for Pollinators and Beneficial Insects
- Monarch Nectar Plants: Did you know adult monarchs need nectar from a variety of plants, not just milkweed? The types of plants that are best for adult and baby monarchs can be quite different, for different areas of North America.
These lists focus on plants that tend to be relatively easy to grow, easier to source/buy, and attractive. Consider displaying a copy of the lists that match your region!
Outreach Ideas
Here are a few ideas for activities:
- Plant and seed sale or giveaway: Solicit local nurseries for donations, or organize volunteers to grow plants from cuttings and seeds.
- Conduct a pollinator bioblitz or census at a local park or around campus and upload the data to iNaturalist.
- Organize a pollinator habitat sign-making party with snacks and crafting supplies.
- Make and give away seed bombs with native seeds.
- Hold a native plant seed swap — or ask your library if they can host a seed library.
- In the summer, hold a “moth night” at a local park with a local scientist.
- Table at a farmer’s market and hand out Bee City/Campus bookmarks.
- Hold a tea and letter writing party. Write letters to the editor, ask local elected officials to reduce pesticides and protect pollinators, or thank community leaders who are doing good work!
More Resources
- Read our Bee City USA and Bee Campus Event Accessibility Checklist and our Important Dates Calendar.
- Watch our Bee City USA & Bee Campus USA YouTube Channel for presentations you can watch and share.
