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Contact_FullName: Angie Contact_Email: aolson19@excite.com Area: bugs- art Idea: Crunchy Beetle Copy a simple beetle on white construction paper. Use black or brown liquid watercolor paint or food coloring to color egg shells. Have the children paint their bug and let dry . Next glue on black or brown crushed up egg shells depending on what color they painted their beetle. Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net Area: bugs-art Idea: I cut out a large shape of a snail shell and let the kids paint it all different colors, then they attached a long light green head (looks like a snail) and put a large wiggle eye on them, looks really springy and very cute! Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net Area: bugs-art Idea: save the silver lids from frozen juice. Let the kids paint them red. When dry let the kids glue on a black circle cut out of construction paper (this will be the head) Glue black small pom poms on the painted juice lid. add wiggle eyes to the head and add a magnet on the back. Such a cute and original magnet for mom! Contact_FullName: Mary Contact_Email: SnzLor@aol.com Area: bugs - art Idea: This can be rather messy. Make sure and wear a paint shirt! Enlarge pictures of bugs and then place them outside on the sidewalk. Give a child a fly swatter with some paint on it and let them swat away! Contact_FullName: Shelly Contact_Email: jgarow@cs.com Area: Bugs- Art Idea: On the first day of our "Bugs and Insects" theme, after we had looked at bug photos in circle, I put several piles of pre-cut shapes on our table. I provided circles and ovals of various sizes, and put out some shapes that looked like legs and antennae. The kids and I looked at the different shapes and talked about what part of a bug they might be used for. Then, we used glue and paintbrushes to design our own bugs. At the end of our theme (two weeks later) we will repeat the activity and display both sets of bugs, to show some of the things we've learned. Contact_FullName: Angie Contact_Email: aolson19@excite.com Area: bugs- art Idea: Crunchy Beetle Copy a simple beetle on white construction paper. Use black or brown liquid watercolor paint or food coloring to color egg shells. Have the child paint their bug and let dry . Next glue on black or brown crushed up egg shells depending on what color they painted their beetle. Contact_FullName: Angie Contact_Email: aolson19@excite.com Area: pond -bugsl Idea: Dazzling Dragonfly Find a simple clip art picture on white construction paper. Next have the children paint with green watercolor paint. When dry glue on colored cellophane wings and large wiggly eyes. Or use glitter on the wings. Contact_FullName: Melissa Contact_Email: mshogan@hotmail.com Area: Bugs or Insects-Art Idea: what you'll need: construction paper, 16 oz green plastic bottle, tape, 2 pipe cleaners, pencil, scissors glue, pom-poms, fluorescent light stick ( i bought them at the dollar store) fold construction paper in half length wise and tear along the fold. Wrap one half around the bottle top for the bugs thorax and tape it in place Wrap a pipe cleaner around the bottle neck and twist to make antennae. Cut the other pipe cleaner stem into thirds and glue the pieces onto sides of bottle to make legs. make a small circle for head and 2 wing shapes. Glue wings to thorax. glue the circle on the bottle cap for face. add pom-poms for eyes. let glue dry activate light stick and put inside bottle!!!!!!!!!! My students LOVED these!!!!!!!!!! Contact_FullName: k Contact_Email: pwald@monarch.net Area: bugs Idea: Bug Eyes or Bug Glasses: (This requires a fair amount of preparation from the adult, but when they're done, they're worth it.) Cut egg cartons into sections of 2. By this I mean have two egg cups per pair of glasses. Cut out the centers of the cups. Also, using a hole puncher, punch a hole in each side of the glasses so that string can be attached. Let the children paint and decorate the glasses however they like. ( You can use various thing, glitter glue, etc. to decorate them.) After they've dried, you can help them stick feathers into the tops of the glasses and attach strings. They're ready to wear! Contact_FullName: Mary Contact_Email: Sweetgrl04BU@aol.com date:: 03/10/03 Area: Bugs/Insects-Art Idea: First Take party blowers (doesn't matter what color) and unroll it and attach the soft part of a Velcro square to the end, then make and laminate different types of bugs (dragonflys, flys, butterflys) and attach the rough part of a Velcro square to that...have the children blow the party blowers and pick the bugs up...the party blowers represent a frogs tongue. They love to see how many more they can get than the other children....sometimes it gets a little slobbery so if you get paper blowers make sure you have extra! ideaPotato Bugs - have children make bugs out of potatoes, toothpicks, gumdrops, paper, pipe cleaners etc.
ideaAfter making paper folded blob paintings, make them into wrist butterflies. When dry fold the painting in half again and cut into a butterfly shape (I used a template with my 4 year olds). Glue this onto the top of a piece of cardboard cylinder (eg. paper towel roll) out of which you have cut a small piece so that it is open. This, when the glue dries, can then be slipped on the child's wrist. Pipe cleaner antennae or even eyes can be added too.
11-7-00Fireflies On dark colored construction paper, (Preferably black), Have student use their finger to make two prints beside each other in white. Then using same finger do one print in the middle in yellow. The more they make the nicer it looks :).
10-16-00"Create a bug" Place cut up egg cartons, pipe cleaners, scrap construction paper, google eyes, glitter, cotton balls and any other materials you would like on the art center. Let the children create a bug! To add language, ask each child to tell you about their bug and write their words down to display next to their creation!
8-21-00You can make wonderful creepy crawlers and insects using pom-poms, feathers, gooey eyes and a Popsicle stick. have children's glue the pom-poms and attach it to the Popsicle stick. After that they can place feathers, google eyes on top of the pom-poms. The children in my preschool have made butterflies, caterpillars and mosquitoes.
7-28-00Caterpillar Supplies: Large craft stick Pom poms or colored cotton balls wiggly eyes pipe cleaners The children put tacky glue dots on their craft stick, 5 or so, and then stick cotton balls or pom poms on the glue. They then put dots of glue where they want eyes. The pipe cleaner is wrapped around the craft stick behind the "head". If you have any craft foam shapes available, leave them out during this project. I find that the children get very creative and want to add a mouth, ears and spots to their creature.
7-9-00A Snail is an artist! Provide a child with a piece of paper with a fold in the middle. This is a book. On the left side is where the child draws his/her picture with markers. On the other side, the child eyedroppers some colored water drops and puts his/her live snail on one of the drops and the snail makes it's trail picture. This is after you have had lots of fun observing the snails and feeding them earlier in the week.
6-14-00You can make a ladybug with a rock. Ask the children to bring in class a rock about the size of their fist. A round shape is the best. Have the children paint the rock in red and let dry. With a large black felt marker, draw a line in the center, some dots and glue eyes. It looks just great !
5-25-00You will need a balloon, watered down glue, newspaper torn into strips, pipe cleaners and paint. First blow up the balloon and knot it. Then dip the papers into the glue/water and cover the balloon with them. The first layer will be tricky but the subsequent layers should be easy enough for the kids to do. Then to dry, you can put it in a warm oven for an hour or just let air dry for a couple of days. when this is done, pop the balloon for a hard shell. Poke holes and insert pipe cleaners for legs and then let the kids paint their bugs.
5-8-00To make really neat butterflies Take a sheet of white paper fold it down the center put a drop of paint in the center. then put a different color in next to it on one half fold and smash make sure to really spread the paint all over the paper they make really neat butterflies!
Date: 3-22-00I am adding a step to the wonderful coffee filter idea. Take a coffee filter, color with washable markers, spray lightly, all the colors will run together. Now pinch the filter in the middle until it resembles butterfly wings. Place this in a clothespin. Add pipe cleaner antennae and two marker eyes. You may add a magnet strip on the back, and voila! A clothespin butterfly to hang on the fridge.
Date: 3-11-00You take an egg carton cut out the hump that holds the egg. turn it over and let the kids paint it red when dry give them black paint to put dots on . And then you draw a black line up the middle and you have a lady bug (cute on a board with flowers).
Date: 1-30-00CREEPY-CRAWLIES!!! Prepare a bug-themed unit (a bug hunt on the playground/in the backyard, buggy stories, learning about different sorts of bugs and the difference between insects, arachnids, etc.), then make a fun caterpillar craft. Materials needed: Construction paper cut into 1-inch-thick strips and (four per child) and circles traced with soda cans (one per child) with two small slits cut, parallel, in the middle of the circle; pipe cleaners cut into three-inch-long lengths (one per child), glue Instructions: Make a paper-link chain with the four strips. Thread the pipe cleaner through the two slits and bend to look like antennae. Paste the circle to the first link of the paper chain. Voila! Your creepy-crawly caterpillar is ready for play. (One of my fave four-year-olds took his caterpillar home, informed his mom that it was his "new brother," and insisted on sleeping with it. That's a sure sign of a big hit!)
ideaWorms Underground First take a full sheet of blue construction paper. Then cut a brown piece of construction paper in half. Glue that piece to the blue construction paper. Next cut strips of Green (I let my 3's fringe the green to look like grass). Glue the green on top of the brown. So you have a paper that looks like your looking underground. Then I let the children glue gummy worms on to the brown to look like earth worms underground. You can also use plastic worms. If you use the gummy worms be sure you buy enough to glue and eat. Date: 11-14-99ideaSpider Print- Have the children make a fist. On the palm side of the fist paint it black and let the child stamp their painted fist onto a piece of white paper. Open the fist up. Paint all the fingers but the thumb! Let child put the finger prints on either side of the fist print. (this is the legs) Using their thumbs let them place two thumb prints on the spider. They have created a great holiday art project that not only they will love but the parents can keep to remember their little hands. Date: 11-6-99ideaInstead of doing handprints, try using foot prints. We made butterflies with the children's feet, put the left foot on the right side and the right foot on the left side, leaving a space between to add a black construction paper body. Decorate as desired. We matted and framed them then added this poem. Beautiful butterfly, Precious and sweet. Strange how it looks, Just like (child's name) feet! Date: 11-6-99ideaPaper plate spiders. Use black paper plates or have children paint them black. Give children googly eyes and wrinkled construction paper legs. Let them glue their eyes and legs onto the plate. Punch a hole and hang from the ceiling. Date: 10-31-99
ideaSpiderwebs: Cut black construction paper to fit inside a round cake pan (or you can use a square or rectangle pan and cut a circle out later). Place the paper in the pan. Dip a marble in white paint and place in the pan. Let the children tip the pan back and forth so that the marble rolls, making a paint trail that looks like a web. You can sprinkle with glitter while the paint is wet. My preschoolers loved making these. We also glued a plastic spider to the webs. Great for Halloween or an insect theme. Date: 10-17-99
Date: 8-19-99I cut butterfly shapes out of contact paper and then I let the children collage them with tissue or construction paper. after we roll up some pipe cleaners and add them for antennae...we have a beautiful butterfly! I usually hang them from the ceiling or put them in the window.
Date: 8-19-99Here's a neat idea the children really love. Use plastic spiders to paint with! Put the spiders on a tray of paint and let the children dip them in and make prints on construction paper. The design that it makes look great!
Date: 7-27-99Coffee Filter Butterflies supplies: coffee filters food coloring pipe cleaners Give each child a coffee filter. Put food coloring in water and place them out. Have the kids dip their fingers in the colored water and let it drip onto their coffee filter. Let the filter dry then take it and bunch the sides together and twist the pipe cleaner around the middle. Take the ends of the pipe cleaner and curl them to make antennas. |
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