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Bug Misc
Contact_FullName: lisa1026 Contact_Email: lmars1026@hotmail.com Area: bugs misc Idea: Send a letter home asking the children to make a bug with their family out of household objects. Make sure your letter mentions a bugs characteristics ex number of legs, wings, etc. Contact_FullName: Jodi Contact_Email: MisssJodi@home.com Area: Manipulatives Idea: I have discovery centers filled with bins, but the one bin that kids love the most is the "bugs and picker upers" box. It has at least a hundred small plastic bugs, frogs, snakes and such that I dump out on the floor with plastic tongs the kids use to put the bugs back in the box! They can sort by type of animal or color or just build fine motor strength by using the tongs in any way! 2-5-01I do daycare and we have theme days one of the kids favorite is bug week, We make green grass hats from green paper and put on bug stickers, We hide rubber bugs in the sand, we make bug boxes from a chip can, we have chocolate pudding as the mud with gummy worms in it.
11-8-00For a creepy crawler theme we put dry dirt and cups of water in the sensory table and had the children mix the two things to make mud then we added real worms and plastic bugs. The kids had fun making the mud and playing in it. Also, they had fun trying to find all the different insects.
10-16-00At the end of your unit on bugs, make a class book. On a piece of paper write or type "If I were a bug, I would be a ______, because_____________. then let the kids tell you their words and draw a picture. laminate and make a class book.
10-10-00Spider Hats Provide each child with 1 2 inch wide strip of black construction paper that will fit around his head. Staple ends together. Cut 8 one inch strips of black v-construction for each child. Children glue 8 legs around the hat. ( This year I put an x on the spots where the legs should be glued.) Bend legs in half after they have dried. Cut 2 large circles for the spider's eyes. Glue to the front portion of the hat. Kids love wearing these hats.
10-3-00I teach preschool programs at a nature center and just completed a lesson on crickets. We read A Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle, captured and observed some crickets and then released them. For our craft, I was stumped. What I ended up doing was using a paper plate, Use an Exacto knife to make an opening in the center. The top half preschoolers sponge painted light blue. The bottom half we sponge painted green and then glued on some Easter grass. I precut some cricket patterns and they used a glue stick to attach the construction paper crickets to a craft stick. Some opted to glue on a wiggly eye. When the paint was dried, the children had a cricket "puppet" that they could merrily hop through the "grass." This was simple, easy, and very cute when finished.
10-3-00For the storybook, "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly" I put on a black sweater and I stuff into my sweater all the animals the old lady swallowed and I keep stuffing until I become fatter. The children love it. You can purchase the animals in your local $1 stores and you can also make some out of felt or old socks.
7-26-00Start an ugly-bug contest on Monday. Tell your parents to hunt for live ugly bugs. On Friday, your class will have a contest to see who found the ugliest bug... and of course, everyone gets a prize for their entry.
7-15-00I usually do a week on spiders and for the bulletin board, I put up black construction paper for the background, and make a spider web out of yarn. I also have the children make spiders out of egg cartons. After the egg cartons have dried, I put them up randomly over the web.
7-12-00We made fireflies from clothespins. The kids painted the clothespins black. When dry they added two sequin eyes to one end, and painted the other end with gold glitter glue. When this dried, they cut oval wings from wax paper and clipped them in the clothespin. We also made a graph of how many kids called these bugs "fireflies", and how many called them "lightning bugs". We hung our finished graph on the wall and hung the bugs around it!
4-28-00This week we focused on Spring Insects and Spiders.. The Children loved it.. We made caterpillars by gluing a bunch of small circles close to one another, we made lady bugs out of Paper plates. A real cute one was Butterflies out of Coffee filters.. let the kids paint them and when they dry put them in a Clothes pin.. add wiggly eggs, you can even put a magnet on the back so they can put them on the fridge... MOMS LOVED Them. Oh and of course the kids favorite was the Spiders out of Styrofoam Balls.
Date: 3-30-00Ladybug Scene. You need a white piece of white construction paper. Have the children take different shades of green construction paper and tear stripes out of them so that they resemble blades of grass. Have the children glue on the grass onto the white paper. Then you have them press their fingertips on a red ink pad and then onto the paper. They can put as many "ladybugs" on as they want to. After they are done putting their ladybugs on, give them a black thin pointed marker to put their spots onto their ladybugs.
2-20-00Fuzzy Bee: You'll need one black and one yellow pipe cleaner, two sets of moving eyes, scissors, glue, pencil. Makes two bee's) Cut the pipe cleaners in half. Cut an inch off the black, this will be used for the wings. Take the yellow and black pipe cleaner wrap it around the pencil, tightly. Slide the bee's body off the pencil. Take the one inch black piece, tuck it into the body half way and shape into the wings. Glue on the eyes. Set aside to dry. You may also make many other insects using two or three or more whole pipe cleaners. Let the child choose the insect and the colors they would like to use to make their insect. Name:
Date: 8-13-99Take about 14 toilet paper rolls an use a glue gun to glue them together to make a honeycomb. You can paint it yellow after, add a few bees and use it as decoration or dramatic play.
Date: 8-12-99We did the stages of a butterfly in a 3 step project. First the kids made a caterpillar out of a large craft stick pom poms and googly eyes. The next day they painted the shape of butterfly wings with vibrant colors. The following day thay glued them onto the wings that they painted. The next day, they put them into a toilet paper tube as the cocoon. After reading the Very hungry catepillar, the kids reall understood the stages of the caterpillar to butterfly.
Date: 8-12-99Take about 14 toillet paper rolls an use a glue gun to glue them together to make a honeycomb. You can paint it yellow after, add a few bees and use it as decoration or dramatic play.
Date: 7-29-99To organize all those creepy crawlers you find that are already dead and you would like to keep for the kids, get your hands on an an old cassette tape holder. Then take some clear plastic tape cases, cut a piece of foam into a rectangle the same size as your tape case and put it inside. now you can put your bug between the foam and the clear plastic cover and glue gun it shut. Then, you can label all your bugs and keep them in a tape holder for easy access! I have a tape holder that is a bag and has a pocket in front, and I use it to keep a few magnifying glasses in. :)
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