For this art activity the children first selected a clothes pin and with the teacher's help attached a pipe cleaner to make antennae. Next the teachers helped the children fold a coffee filter and put it inside the clothes pin. The children used eye droppers to apply watered down paint to their butterfly's wings.
We gave the children ladybug shaped paper, different colors of tissue paper, black paper circles, eyeball stickers, and glue for this activity. The children glued on the tissue paper and black circles, then added the eyeball stickers to make their ladybugs.
For this activity we put rubber worms in a container of dirt. We gave the children shovels and numbered cups. The children used the shovels to find the worms. They had to count out the correct number of worms to put in each cup. 5 worms in the #5 cup, 10 worms in the #10 cup, etc...
On this day the kids made spider webs. We gave them white paint, black paper, marbles, glitter and a large box top. The kids put their paper inside the box top. Next they dipped their marbles in the white paint and moved the box back and forth. The marbles traveled over the black paper to create a spider web. The children sprinkled glitter over the paint to make more eye catching.
The teacher's made rubbing plates that looked like ant hills for this activity.
The children laid their paper over the rubbing plates and rubbed crayons over the paper
Next, the children glued ants to their paper to make it look like the ant hill was full of ants.
This was a pretty simple woodworking activity. We let the children use a hammer to nail rubber bugs to an old tree stump.
For this activity the teachers first cut out insect wings, legs, and antennae, from construction paper. We gave each child a long balloon to make their insect with. The children taped the insect parts onto their balloon. After adding some eyeball stickers to the insect, the children made an assortment of dragonflies, mosquitoes, and other insects.