Free Beehive and Bee SVG Files For Cricut

These Free Bee and Beehive SVGs are great for Cricut, Silhouette, or any other cutting machine crafts.

Bumble Bee SVG For Cricut Crafts

With these free bee SVG cut files, you can make plenty of fun bumble bee crafts with your Cricut or Silhouette cutting machine. For example, you can cut these templates on vinyl material. Then, you can weed the bee, hive, and honeycomb shapes to make decals for mugs, flower pots, and t-shirts.

In addition, you can also use these free bee SVGs to make acrylic hexagon coasters. For this project, you just need to get the hexagon coasters. Additionally, I’d recommend using yellow and black vinyl. Absolutely, bee SVG files are perfect for all your spring seasonal craft needs.

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How Beehives work

The internal structure of the hive is a closely-packed cluster, called a honeycomb, of hexagonal prismatic cells made of beeswax. The bees use nutrients (honey and pollen) to preserve the cells and to shelter the group (eggs, larvae, and pupae). Beehives play several roles: honey processing, pollination of surrounding flowers, maintaining the supply of bees for the treatment of apitherapy.

When they do not go outside to hunt for food, worker honey bees make hives to store honey and support themselves in winter. Honey bee hives are made of six-sided tubes which, since they need fewer wax and can hold more honey, are the forms for ideal honey production. Because of cocoon trails and travel marks, some hives build broods that become darker over time. Honeycomb hexagonal cells are used to house larvae and other nests, and also to preserve honey, pollen and nectar. The comb is effectively left untouched when beekeepers harvest honey from hives, while beekeepers often offer honeycombs.

Worker bees’ glands turn honey’s nutritional value into wax, which seeps through the narrow pores of the bee to create tiny particles of wax on their belly. These bits of wax are gnawed by workers once they become fragile and sturdy, and then the gnawed wax is applied to the honeycomb design.

Interested in related designs? Check out my Queen Bee SVG and Bee Kind SVG templates.

How to turn any image into an SVG template?

Interested in learning the easiest way to make your own SVG?

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to turn any image into an SVG format image without having to use any complicated graphics editing software.

First, a quick primer on what is an SVG… SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. It is a way to store digital information about an image. Most images you see on the web and other digital devices use a bitmap or pixel-based image storage format. In other words, the image is captured with information about each dot in the image.

SVG format images are part of a category of images that are vector-based. Vector-based images store the image as a series of paths and nodes. Most cutting machines like the Cricut and Silhouette use SVG format images because the blade on the machine needs to know what direction (or path) to cut.

To turn a bitmap-based image into a vector-based image, you need special conversion software tools. This is an algorithm tricky conversion because there are lots of different ways to do it with varying degrees in quality. Most graphic editing software like Adobe Illustration make you manually decide on those conversion settings which makes it really difficult to use if you’re not already familiar with Illustrator.

I use a software tool called Vector Magic. With Vector Magic, you just upload your image (you can even copy and paste it in) and it automatically just converts to an SVG format for you. You can make editorial adjustments afterward if you’d like but there is a baseline conversion ready to go if that’s good enough.

Here’s an image for you to give it a try yourself. It’s a bunch of cute animal drawings I did the other day. I just took a picture of it with my phone. Try copy and paste this image into the Vector Magic interface. (Right-click on the image below, select “copy”, then head over to Vector Magic and past it into the window or just hit Ctrl+V)

After you pasted your image into the Vector Magic window, it will automatically start to convert your image:

This will take a few seconds. When the process is complete, you will see the vectorized SVG image on the right with the original on the left.

If you don’t like the automated conversion, there are a number of different adjustments you can make from the right tool panel.

After making adjustments, you can download your converted image as an SVG and then upload it to your cutting machine interface like Cricut Design Space below: