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...
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.
This activity was a combination of art and language. For the art part of the activity we gave the children colored circles, crayons and glue. The children glued the colored circles onto their paper to make a caterpillar. They used the crayons to give the caterpillars legs, antennae, and faces. After their caterpillar was complete they dictated a story to the teachers to write down for them.
This is one of our messiest activities. If you come to our classroom, you can see the paint on the ceiling left over from this activity. For this activity we let the children put drops of paint and plastic flies on a large sheet of paper. Next we gave the children fly swatters and let them swat away at the paint and flies.
For this activity we attached velcro to some party blowers and insects. The children pretended to be insect eating animals and used the party blowers as tongues to catch the insects.
This was a simple shape matching activity. The children were given worms and apples with pictures of shapes on them. The children had to match the worms and apples that had the same shapes.
For this activity we taped Insect Rubbing Plates to the art table. The children placed paper over the rubbing plates and used paperless crayons to rub over the paper to make an insect picture.
