Have any good and very simple bug related crafts?

Question

I have searched around online, though I can't find anything simple. It is for a library story hour and needs to take 15-20 minutes or less. Something to decorate, not make or a craft for the young crowd. Something simple that doesnt require glues and paints, etc. Thanks.

Answer 1

http://www.daniellesplace.com/HTML/bugs....

Answer 2

you could make a caterpillar.

1. Take a box were you put eggs in.

2. Cut them

3. Take some markers and decorate them

Answer 3

Ok even though I am a teen I loooove kids and teach sunday school and used to help teach pre-school. Take some coloured peices of paper and draw really big plain bugs on them like a catipillar or a butterfly, let the kids pick the one they like most (each child gets one), give them 8 crayons and some stickers, they can decorate them while your reading, then at the end let them tell eachother a little bit about their bug and post them up on a wall. Have fun and good luck I have never really used this idea it just popped into my head hope I helped

Answer 4

sun catcher

Answer 5

ok, take some coffe filters and a water spray bottle pipe cleaners and colorful washable markers.

next draw on the coffee filters with the markers, draw dots, lines, hearts, things like that. then spray it with water and the colors will run and blend. pinch the middle of it and make it look like a butterfly, then tie the pipe cleaner around it and be creative it should turn out something like this..http://crafts.kaboose.com/swf/butterfly_...

Answer 6

glue bugs to a paper a, no more talking, just click the link

http://godlovesmeat.com/spatulatzar/fly_...

Answer 7

A butterfly. If you want it to be a treat, heres what you could do.

1. You need melted caramel. That's to hold the candies together.

2. No other but a oval shaped hershey bar for the body. Try cutting the bar into an oval.

3. Antennae can be licorice whips (black or red, whichever you please)

4.Take 5 for the wings. If you don't like Take 5, pick any chocolate bar for a treat. I've made one of these butterflies and there delicious.



If you want a regular craft, you might wanna ask someone else...

Answer 8

Tomorrow we are making lady bugs with strawberries grapes and mini chocolate chips. Have them place a strawberry on a skewer followed by a grape, then decorate the strawberry with the mini chocolate chips.

Also you can make sun catchers in any shape, just take contact paper and cut squares of tissue paper out, I think a lady bug would be cute if you had black and red tissue paper, place another piece of contact paper on top and  have the kids cut out the shape. We did this today in the shapes of flowers.

Answer 9

Why not bring in real insects?????  You could go to a bait and tackle store and get crickets for almost nothing.  Put these into a tank with a egg crate.  You can put meal on the bottom for food.  These crickets will move, make noise and can relate to your story (Eric Carle Quiet Cricket)  You can also get worms from this store for cheap.  After the activity you can simply free these little guys outside.  If you get crickets, there is a protruding "V" in the posterior.  This "V" is how you determine s*x.  A "V" by itself is a male, and a "V" with another long rod protruding in the middle is a female where she deposits eggs.  This is very noticeable when you buy them and great for discussion.  If these insects do not work for you, I would contact a natural history museum or a University to find the arthropod expert.  You could have them bring in/loan whatever you need from their collection.  Make this real, kids love real stuff!!!  Especially things that are living!!

Answer 10

a turtle

Answer 11

get them to make a spider

you just get a ping pong ball or something....

and then get them to paint it

(maybe sumthing cool, like (polka dots)

and maybe they can decorate it with stickers, and sequins and things?

(but thats ur choice)

that will be fun

then tell them to stick different colourerd pipe cleaners through them

it will be fun 4 them!

good luck

http://www.daniellesplace.com/HTML/bugs....

i donnt know if you'll like this site?

but go on it anyways?

if not,......stick witht eh spider idea!!

:)

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Answer 12

There are definately a lot more ideas if you can use glue!  :-)  Maybe consider a glue stick?  Less messy.

How about a coffeefilter butterfly... Someone might have already mentioned it.  Use washable markers to "write" on the wings and twist a pipe cleaner around it for the body/antennae... if you have a few spray bottles... have them spray water on their coffee filter and the colors will run together.  Makes it look even nicer.

Good luck.

Answer 13

i once was a preschool teacher and a simple craft i did for bug week was this...

i had white construction paper and i took diff colored stamp pads and let the children use a few fingers (one finger in a certain color so the stamps dont mix) and theys press their finger in stamp pad and press it anywhere they wanted on the white paper. then id give them crayons or a marker to add eyes, legs, wings,  butterfly etc.. to the finger prints to make look like a bug... then they can color green grass at bottom of paper... if you have help  it could be a quick process.. and of course they need to wash hands after...

or you can just give them crayons and have them draw their favorite bug or something... its hard to think of projects when you have little time and cant elaborate... hope i helped...

Answer 14

Hi, I hope this will help. Make a ladybug from a paper plate. Kids paint the plate red or if you don't want to use paint, they can cover it with a red circle. Then glue on black dots, or use black circle stickers. Any further decorations are fun to add like antennae with pipecleaners.

I'm really more of a person who likes to do real art, not crafts. So if you want that kind of help, go to my website at http://www.brightring.com to find free activities from all of the art books I have written. I think you'll like them.

Another idea for making a non-paint, non-glue bug is to use playdough or better yet, some modeling clay to make a ball. Flatten the ball some, and stick in things to decorate it as a bug, like macaroni, toothpicks, buttons, beads, whatever you think would be bug like.

Anytime you use stickers, like simple circle stickers, that is always an easy approach for the kids to make something without mess. Give them all circles or ovals or any different shapes of paper to be the bug. Then add stickers. Use markers to add more decoration. Tah dah!!

MaryAnn Kohl, author of twenty award-winning art books for kids