This year's Earth Day featured YEE amongst a fantastic array of different stalls at Toulcův dvůr on a sunny spring day. The main event of the day involved children running around the farm; it explored the various ways in which the environment is essential to us and must be cared for. It also involved activities such as making seed bombs and cooking over an open fire.

For this day YEE decided to focus on its The Right to Bee campaign, and wanted to carry out an activity which was fun for kids, whilst also helping them to connect with nature and especially their relationship with bees. So the main part of the day involved painting bees on faces and getting them to make their own bees to take home. By the end of the day many of the YEE team had become professionals in painting bees on faces. We also had a game to find fruits and vegetables that grow in our gardens thanks to the bees and pollination. Children shared their ideas on how bees help us and how we can help them. Visitors also were able to take home YEE literature on other more grown-up projects if they wished.

The end of the day was topped off with a planting action where we invited people to join us in sowing the seeds for YEE's future pea and sunflower crop, which as well as hopefully giving some food at the end was mainly to provide many flowers for local bees in the meantime.

Apart from bringing fun, these activities were designed to get children to engage with bees in a way which allows them to form a caring relationship with bees from a young age, leading hopefully to more compassion towards bees later in life. Also, children who grow up in urban surroundings will become more interested to connecting with nature and learning about bees. We hope that our modest contribution to Earth Day 2016 will put future generations on the right path to a life of caring for bees.