All about Bugs- Arts and Crafts

· Make Your Own Bug

What You Need:cotton balls, egg cartons, google eyes, pipe cleaners, construction paper, glitter, any other material that you want to use.What You Do:Cut the egg cartons and let the children make their own bug

· Make an insect collage.
Cut out different bugs from various magazines and make a collage

Make a butterfly
Get a quart size ziploc bag. Have crepe paper, beads, glitter, pom poms, etc. Have the children put these things in the bag and then have the teacher take the bag and divide the things in half (roughly put half of the crete paper, pom poms to one side, leave the rest on the other half). It should look like a bow tie. Then take a pipe cleaner and fold it in half around the middle of the bag. This is the body of the butterfly. Then twist the pipe cleaner and leave the ends sticking up for the antannaes. Each corner of the bag is a tip of the wing.
You could also make a butterfly using coffee filters of any size. Let the children watercolor them and then when dry,scrunch it up in the center and twist a pipe cleaner around the center for the body.

Ladybugs
Cut out a black oval for the body and a circle for the head. Make a red circle for the wings the same size as the black oval. Cut the red oval in half the long way. Glue the head to the black oval and using a brad fastener (by the neck) put the red wings on so they can open and close. Using a hole punch cut out holes in the wings so the black oval shows through and makes spots on the wings. You can use googly eyes or punch out holes for the eyes too.

Flyswatter painting
You'll need to give yourself some room on this one. This is great to do outside. Get a clean flyswatter and some paint on a paper plate. Using large paper (butcher paper is great or large construction paper works) have the child paint with the flyswatter. You could glue on little insects to the paper and have them try to swat them.