- Paint rock “bugs”
- Go on a bug hunt in your backyard
- Use bugs to paint. Grow fly larva/maggots, dip them in paint and watch them move, can also use earth worms for this art project.
- Watch an ant mound (not fireants). Burn ants with a magnifying glass
- Watch bugs with magnifying glass.
- Make bugs, butterflies and flowers with this coffee-filter craft
- Identify a variety of bugs (moths, caterpillars, worms, beetles, ants, spiders, etc.)
- Color bugs
- Create caterpillars with egg cartons and other recycled materials
- Paint a symmetry butterfly picture. Fold paper in half paint one half of the butterfly and fold over while the paint is wet to make a mirror image butterfly
- Work on motor skills by playing “Pin the wing on the Butterfly” (using coffee filters), or “Pin the legs on a Spider” (using pipe cleaners).
- Create ants, caterpillars or ladybugs with a felt shapes mat.
- Make dirt pudding and bury candy bugs in it.
- Create an imaginary insect (how many legs will it have? what type of body? will it have wings? What will it eat? Where will it live? etc.)
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