Busy Bees
A soft garden book: butter-cream pages, layered paper with tape and pins, honey caption strips and dotted flight trails.
Busy Bees is a gentle, airy garden book. Pages are butter cream, pale sky and soft blush, titles are Dancing Script, and photos sit in white windows with a honey hairline, dewdrop circles and small clusters of hexagons, on layered sheets of paper with tape and pins. The contents page is a Flight Path and the book closes with Wings of Signatures. Below is the full sample book, with a placeholder image in every frame.
Every page of the book
The cover, every spread and the back cover. Class pages repeat for each class in your school.
Cover 
Pages 2 and 3 
Pages 4 and 5 
Pages 6 and 7 
Pages 8 and 9 
Pages 10 and 11 
Pages 12 and 13 
Pages 14 and 15 
Pages 16 and 17 
Pages 18 and 19 
Pages 20 and 21 
Pages 22 and 23 
Pages 24 and 25 
Pages 26 and 27 
Pages 28 and 29 
Pages 30 and 31 
Pages 32 and 33 
Pages 34 and 35 
Pages 36 and 37 
Pages 38 and 39 
Pages 40 and 41 
Pages 42 and 43 
Pages 44 and 45 
Pages 46 and 47 
Pages 48 and 49 
Back cover
Backgrounds
Papers and scenes to rotate through your pages, all in the Busy Bees palette.
Style guide
The fonts and colors Busy Bees is built from. In Canva, any of them can be changed to suit your school.
Suggested typefaces
Color palette
- Honey
#fdc000 - Butter cream
#ffffe0 - Soft yellow
#f8ec87 - Amber
#c98a00 - Cocoa
#6b4700 - Pale sky
#baf8ff - Blush
#fbd3e0 - Fresh leaf
#d6ecb8 - White
#ffffff - Black
#000000
Style guide pages
Style guide, page 1 
Style guide, page 2
What is included
Busy Bees is a Canva yearbook template for elementary schools: a complete design with a cover, class pages, event pages and a back cover, free for any Rethink school. Its photo frames are empty, and your team puts its own photos in them.
- A cover and a back cover
- 38 page layouts across class, event, club and memory pages
- Class pages in 5 sizes, from 12 to 28 portraits plus the teacher
- 12 backgrounds
- A style guide (2 pages), a named palette of 10 colors and three suggested typefaces
- A Canva design your whole committee can edit at once, and recolor for your school
- $0 for a Rethink school, along with the page libraries and First Draft
Who it suits: Schools that want a warm, soft and cheerful book, especially with a garden, spring or nature feel.
How to use Busy Bees
- Look through every page of the sample book above, including the backgrounds and style guide where the template has them.
- A Rethink school gets the full design as a Canva file that the whole committee can open and edit at once.
- Put your team’s photos into the empty frames and repeat the class pages for each class in your school.
- Change colors, fonts and layouts to suit your school, or ask for the free First Draft and have Rethink build the first version for you to edit.
Busy Bees, answered
What colors does Busy Bees use?
Butter cream, Soft yellow, Honey, Amber, Cocoa, Pale sky, Blush, Fresh leaf, white and black. Honey and Amber are the accents; Blush and Fresh leaf are used for page backgrounds.
What fonts does Busy Bees use?
Dancing Script for titles, Roboto Condensed for the accent lines and Roboto for body text.
How is Busy Bees different from Honeycomb Hive?
Both borrow hexagons. Busy Bees is the soft, pastel one with script titles and flowers. Honeycomb Hive is the bold one, with interlocking hexagon photo frames and black pages.
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