Bug and Insect Crafts for Kids
How to make Bug and Insect Crafts
Roly Poly Paper Craft for Kids
 This little roly poly curls up into a ball whenever it is scared just like real roly polies. It can be used not only as a toy, but as an educational tool. Have your children study roly polies and then write facts about roly polies on the segments.
What you will need:
Card Stock (Heavy Paper)
Colored Pencils or Crayons
Brass Brads
Hole Punch
Black Construction Paper
Clear Tape or Glue
Wiggle Eyes
How to Make the Roly Poly Paper Craft:
1. Cut seven triangles 3 1/2" tall by 3" wide from the card stock. (A printable pattern for this craft is available to members.)
2. Draw a face shape on one of the triangles at the bottom corner of the triangle.
3. Punch holes in the tops of the triangles. Pile up all the triangles on top of each other placing the head triangle at the top of the pile. Secure all the triangles together with the brass brad.
4. Spread out the triangles to make the roly poly shape. Cut thin strips of black construction paper about two inches long. Fold them in half at an angle to make the pairs of legs. Roly polies have seven pairs of legs. Tape them to the back of the first and last triangles in the pile. Use two more strips of construction paper for the antennae. Glue on wiggle eyes.
5. Have your children write facts about Roly Polies on the sections of the roly polies.
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Fly with Compound Eyes Educational Craft for Children
This fly craft would make a great bulletin board display for science class. The finished fly is 15 inches long.
What you will need:
Lunch-sized paper plate, Card stock or heavy weight paper, green and yellow acrylic paint, black construction, one-inch paint brush, bubble wrap with the small bubbles, scissors, black marker, glue and black pipe cleaners.
How to Make the Fly with Compound Eyes Craft:
1. Fold a lunch-sized paper plate in on the sides to make the fly's head shape, and paint it brown. (A pattern for the head shape is available to members.)
2. Cut a body shape from card stock (Heavy Paper) and paint it black, or use black paper. (A pattern for the body shape is available to members.)
3. Glue the head to the body.
4. Place your bubble wrap sheet over the paper plate head so that the smooth side of the bubble wraps is facing up. Draw eyes on the bubble wrap with a black marker where you want them to be attached to the paper plate. Cut out the eye shapes from the bubble wrap. (A pattern for the eye shapes are available to members.)
5. Turn the bubble wrap over to the bubble side and paint the tops of the bubbles with green acrylic paint. (You can also use a little bit of yellow around the edges.)
6. Press the bubble wrap eye shapes onto a black sheet of paper paint side down, and then gently peel the bubble wrap off. Let the paint dry and then cut them out and glue them to the paper plate face.
7. Cut wing shapes from the leftover bubble wrap and glue it to the fly's body.
8. To finish glue pipe cleaners to the underside of the fly and fold them to look like legs.
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The Fly's Eyes - Compound Eyes Bubble Wrap Activity Sheet
This activity sheet comes with interesting facts about compound eyes.
What you will need:
Card stock or heavy weight paper, acrylic paint, one-inch paint brush, and bubble wrap with the small bubbles.
How to Make:
1. Print out the bug head pattern onto card stock (Heavy paper) A pattern for this activity sheet is available to members. If you don't have a membership, you can just draw a picture of the bugs head.
2. Cut a piece of bubble wrap a little bit bigger than the bug's eyes. Place the bubble wrap over the eyes so that the bubble side is facing down. Trace around the eyes with a black marker.
3. Turn the bubble wrap back over and paint over the area that you traced.
4. Turn the painted side of the bubble wrap over and press it down on the eyes and then slowly peel it off.
5. When the paint is dry color the bug's head.
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Firefly Paper Plate Craft for Kids
 What you will need:
Six-inch Paper Plates
Tissue Paper
Patio Paint 
Low Temp Mini Glue Gun
Scissors
Striped Pipe Cleaners - Package of 200
Black Chenille Stems 
How to Make the Firefly Paper Plate Craft:
1. To make the firefly's body fold a 6-inch paper plate in half.
2. To make the firefly's head fold another 6-inch paper plate in half. Punch hole on the fold for the antennae. Insert a striped pipe cleaner into one hole and then up through the other. Bend down the antennae.
3. Fold the paper plate in half again. Fold back the pointed ends, and then fold them forward. Open up the folded plate a little and push in the folded sides. Glue the sides together. (See Diagram.) (A pattern for this craft is available to members.)
3. Crease the front, bottom of the paper plate to make the mouth. (See diagram.) Glue the head to the body.
4. Cut wing shapes from tissue paper. Scrunch up the end that connects to the body and glue them under the head. (A pattern for the wings is available to members.)
5. Cut pipe cleaners in half, fold them into leg shapes and then glue them to the body as shown in the picture.
6. To finish cut the eyes from the pattern (or draw them) and glue them to the head.
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Butterfly DIY Craft for Kids Made from Plastic Spoons
What you will need:
Plastic spoons, and mini spoons (You can find these a party stores.), Black spray paint, sequins, tacky glue, pipe cleaners, lighter, and a low temp. glue gun.
How to Make the Plastic Spoon Butterflies:
1. Spray paint the mini plastic spoons black (I could only find them in a clear plastic.)
2. Cut the cupped ends off of the regular-sized plastic spoons and glue them to the mini spoon with a low temp. glue gun. You can use a lighter to melt the cut end and bend it slightly to fit on the spoon better.
3. Glue on antennae and sequins to decorate the butterfly.
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Bee and Ladybug Refrigerator Magnets Plastic Spoon Craft
 What you will need:
Yellow, red, black, and clear plastic spoons, scissors, black and yellow craft foam, googly eyes, hot melt glue gun.
How to Make Bee and Ladybug Spoon Crafts:
1. To make the bee and ladybug cut the scoop end off the spoons using a sharp scissors. Cut the red and clear spoon in half lengthwise to make the swings. Use a lighter to melt any sharp edges.
2. Glue the wings to the body spoon with a hot melt glue gun.
3. Cut circles from craft foam and glue to the body. To finish glue on googly eyes.
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Ant DIY Craft for Kids Made from Spoons and Pipe Cleaners
What you will need:
Black or Red Plastic Spoons, Black or Red Pipe Cleaners, Low Temp. Glue Gun, scissors, and googly eyes.
How to Make a Plastic Spoon Ant:
 1. Cut the cupped end of one spoon off leaving a short neck. Glue the cupped part onto the end of another spoon so that the end of that spoon is in the middle of the cupped part as shown in the diagram.
2. To make the middle part of the ant thicker you can use the handle of the spoon you cut in half. Cut the handle to fit in the middle of the ant and glue it on.
3. Use three pipe cleaners to make the legs winding them around the middle of the ant. Then wind another pipe cleaner in between the legs to make the middle part thicker.
4. To finish glue on googly eyes.
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Dragonfly DIY Craft for Kids Made from Plastic Spoon and Knives
 What you will need:
Clear plastic spoons and knives, glitter glue paint, googly eyes, paint brush, string or heavy duty thread, and a low temp. glue gun.
How to Make the Spoon and Fork Dragonfly Craft:
1. Glue two knives together in an X-shape to make the dragonfly's wings using a low temp. glue gun.
2. Glue the wings to the plastic spoon just below the cupped part of the spoon.
 3. Paint the dragonfly with glitter glue and let it dry.
4. Glue on googly eyes at the tip of the spoon. You can also add decorative items such as beads and sequins.
5. To finish tie on some thread to hang the dragonfly.
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Spider Melted Styrofoam Cup Craft for Kids
 What you will need:
8.5 oz. Styrofoam cup , black acrylic paint, paint brushes, large black pompom, googly eyes, scissors, and glue.
How to make:
1. Cut off the rim of the cup so that the cup is three inches tall. Cut slits about 1/2" apart down from the rim of the cup to about 1 inch from the bottom of the cup.
2. Cut off the extra slits so that you have four legs left on each side of the spider as shown in the picture.
3. Preheat your oven to 250 degrees (convection oven works best). Make
sure you turn on your oven vent and you have your windows
open because the fumes from the melting cups probably aren't good
to breath in.
4. Place the cut Styrofoam
cup, right-side up, on an old cookie sheet. Turn on the oven light so you can see inside the oven.
You should see the cup start to melt and the sides curl down in about 15 to 30 seconds
or maybe a little longer. As soon as you see the sides start to curl down open the oven door and take out the cup. The cup will not be hot, but be
very careful not to touch the sides of the oven.
5. Paint legs and body black and let them dry.
6. To finish glue a large black pompom in the middle of the cup for the spider's body. Glue on googly eyes.
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Bug House Craft for Kids
 Bugs have to live somewhere. Why not make them their own house to live in. These are great for children who are interested in studying bugs. After leaving them outside for a season, they can take them apart to see how many bugs have taken up residence in their houses.
What you will need: Paper mache or wooden craft boxes, low temp. hot melt glue gun, acrylic paint, natural items that bugs would like.
Some items we used: a gourd cut in half, pinecones, reeds, curled up bark, dried apple slices, dried moss, pine needles, Sycamore tree ball, dried berries, and acorn caps.
How to make:
 1. Collect the materials you think bugs might like to live in. Bugs like to hide in holes so find things that have lots of holes or can be arranged so that they create cozy spaces.
2. If you would like to make a roof for your house, cut the lid of the box in half and glue it together to make the roof of the house. You don't have to make a roof. You can glue several boxes together to make a condo or apartment building.
3. If you live in a wet area, you may want to paint the box and then cover it with a clear acrylic paint so that it won't fall apart when it rains. Or you can place it in a dry place where it won't get wet.
4. Arrange the materials you have collected in the box. Group similar objects and shapes. Use low temp. glue to secure the objects in place. For a more pleasing arrangement try not to place everything in the same direction, vary the sizes and shapes or your objects, and group similar objects together. Use different colors of objects if you have them.
5. After your house has sat out side for a season, carefully take it apart and see how many different inhabitants there are, or watch to see how many insects or spiders exit and enter it.
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Styrofoam
Ant Craft
What
you will need: 2 - 2 1/2" Styrofoam eggs, 1 1/2"" Styrofoam
ball, 4 pipe cleaners, wiggly eyes, black or red acrylic paint, and
toothpicks (the large type)
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How to make:
 1. Poke
two toothpicks halfway into the big end of both egg shapes. Press
the ball onto one egg shape and then press the other egg shape onto
the other end of the ball shape.
2. Paint
the ant with black or red acrylic paint.
3. When
the paint is dry cut the pipe cleaners in half, save two halves
for the antennae. Fold the other halves in half and twist the ends
around each other. Insert the folded pipe cleaners (pointy ends
into the Styrofoam) into the middle of the body for legs. Fold them
to look like ant legs. Insert the reserved half pipe cleaners into
the head and glue on eyes.
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Bee Crafts
Go to the Bee Crafts and Activities Page
Dragon
Fly Bug Craft for Kids
What
you will need: Jumbo craft sticks, 2" oval wooden piece, 1 1/2"
oval wooden piece, 1/2" or 3/4" round wooden pieces for the eyes (fun
foam shapes can be substituted), paint, glitter paint, clear packaging
tape or clear contact paper, black permanent marker, glue.
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 How to make:
1. Paint
all the wooden pieces and set them aside to dry.
2. Print
out the dragon
fly wing pattern. (Printing Problems?) Put
two pieces of tape or contact paper sticky sides together.
Place the tape on top of the wing pattern and trace them onto the
tape. Make two of each pattern. Cut the wings out. When your
paint is dry glue the wings to the top of the jumbo craft stick
with the larger wings on top as shown.
3. Glue
the large oval over the wings.
4. Glue
the eyes on each side of the small oval and then glue that piece
onto underside of the large oval.
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Dragonfly Plant Stake Craft
 What you will need:
Three Pipe Cleaners (Chenille stems) - two different colors, one that is metallic works well, googly eyes, and glue.
How to make the Dragonfly Plant Stake:
1. Roll up about 3" of the end of the main pipe cleaner to make the head. Bend the rest of the pipe cleaner so that it sticks out perpendicular from the head.
2. Wind the metallic pipe cleaner around the body pipe cleaner starting next to the head about 5 1/2" and then cut the ends of the two pipe cleaners 5 1/2" from the head. Bend it in half and fold it so it just meets the head. Glue it down.
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Dung Beetle Refrigerator Magnet Craft
 What you will need: Black pipe cleaners, foam eggs, small black pompoms, tiny beads, computer paper, black Sharpy markers or black acrylic paint, and tacky glue.
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1. Cut pipe cleaners into 2 1/2" pieces and cut the foam egg in half lengthwise.
2. Give each child half a foam egg, six pipe cleaner pieces, and a black pompom.
3. Have them stick the pipe cleaners into the bottom of the foam egg and bend them up for the legs, and then glue the black pompom on one end of the egg for the head, and glue beads on for eyes.
4. To finish, paint the beetle with black paint or use black Sharpy markers.
 Learn more about Dung Beetle with the Bug Buddies Study on Dung Beetles - Go to the Bug Buddies Study Page.
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Grasshopper - Locust Crafts for Kids
 1. Grasshopper,
Cricket, or Locust Craft
Print out the pattern, color
and cut out to make this cute 3-D grasshopper. This craft was designed to go along with the Bible lesson "Grasshoppers and Giants' about the spies going into Canaan. (Available to members only.)
 2."Label the Parts" Printable Grasshopper Photograph
Label a real life, up-close photograph of a grasshopper.
This printable sheet is available to members only.
3. Grasshopper Pompom Craft for Kids
 What you will need: two green pompoms, one slightly smaller than the other, green or black pipe cleaners, glue, and tiny googly eyes.
How to make:
1. Glue the two pompoms together.
2. Cut the pipe cleaner in to 6, one-inch lengths and bend them to form the legs. Glue them to the large pompom as shown in the picture.
3. Cut another piece of pipe cleaner two inches long, fold it in half, and glue it to the head for the antennae.
4. To finish glue two tiny eyes to the head.
This craft was designed to go along with the Bible lesson "Grasshoppers and Giants' about the spies going into Canaan. Children throw the grasshoppers onto a game board and answer Bible lesson review questions.
Walking
Stick Bug Craft for Kids
What
you will need: Sticks, brown or tan pipe cleaners, eyes.
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 How to make:
1. Fold
3 pipe cleaners in half. Place a pipe cleaner on the stick
at the fold. Wind the pipe cleaners around the stick by bringing
the ends of the pipe cleaners around each other and twisting.
Bend the legs so that one joint comes up over the stick. Make
two more bends in the pipe cleaner. Do this for the other
two sets of legs.
2. To
make the antennae fold a pipe cleaner in half. Put it over
the head end of your bug. Wind the pipe cleaner around the
tip of the stick to make the head.
3. Glue
on eyes.
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"All About Walking Stick Bugs" Book Craft
 This craft and learning activity is great to use in lap books. Children glue sticks on the cover of the book to make a walking stick bug and then write about walking sticks inside.
This craft is available in the "Bug Buddies Study" - Christian Home School Materials about God's Amazing Little Creatures".
This set of lessons introduces children to amazing insects. Each lesson emphasizes a Biblical concept relating it to a specific bug, and encourages children to learn more about bugs.
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Sticks and Things Bug Craft
Collect dried leaves, flowers, sticks, stones, seeds, shells, acorns, etc. that you can use to make bugs. Glue the pieces together on a piece of 5" x 5" card stock. Aleene's Tacky glue works very well for this project.
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Bug Buddies Studies
Bug Buddies Studies is a Christian-based set of studies that introduces children to a variety of amazing insects.
Praying
Mantis Insect Craft for Kids
 What
you will need:
Card stock, markers or crayons, tape and glue,
scissors
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How to make:
 1. Print
out the body
pattern for the praying mantis and the feet and wing pattern. (Printing Problems?)
2. Color
the patterns and then cut them out.
3. Fold
the mantis' head down away from you at the straight dotted line
B and then unfold. Fold the Mantis' neck up at the dotted
line D and then unfold. Fold the mantis body in half
lengthwise.
4. With
the Mantis folded in half long ways. Fold line A towards you and
then away from you and then unfold. Unfold the Mantis about half
way. While pressing in on line B press down on the Mantis
nose so that line A goes up over line B. With the Mantis folded
in half length ways. Fold line C and line D back and then
forward and then unfold. Unfold the Mantis part way lengthwise.
While folding line B up again press line D up to line C and press
the Mantis together lengthwise.
5. Glue
the Mantis' legs onto the body as shown in the picture. For extra
stability you can cut extra legs and glue them together to make
them stronger. Fold the Mantis wing in half and glue it to the top
of the Mantis' body. Cut out antennae and glue them to the head.
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"Label the Parts" Printable Praying Mantis Photograph
 Label a real life, up-close photograph of a praying mantis.
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Paper Plate and Straw Praying Mantis
 What you will need:
Two 9-inch Paper Plates
Three 6-inch Paper Plates
Bright Green Pipe Cleaners
Green Bendable Jumbo Straws
Green and Light Green Patio Paint
Low Temp Mini Glue Gun
Black Marker
Green Paper
Head
1. To make the head fold a 6-inch paper plate in half.
2. Cut a slit about 2" long up from the edge of the paper plate toward the center, perpendicular to the fold line (see diagram). Bring the cut edge over so that it overlaps the other side about 1/2" and glue it closed. Crease the opposite side of the plate about one inch to make the nose. (A printable pattern is available to members.)
 3. Cut a small hole the size of the pipe cleaner just above the slit.
Neck
4. To make the neck insert three pipe cleaners into a straw so the pipe cleaners stick out both ends. Glue the ends of the straw so the pipe cleaners don't fall out. Insert the long end of the pipe cleaner into the hole from the outside of the paper plate. Glue the the straw up against the center fold of the head paper plate. Glue the pipe cleaner that is sticking out to the other side of the head plate (see diagram).
5. Punch two holes on the center fold line of the head paper plate for the antennae. Fold another pipe cleaner in half and insert the ends of the pipe cleaner in the holes so they come out the front of the paper plate.
 6. Fold down the head paper plate and glue it closed matching up the edges on the side so that the middle of the paper plate sticks out a little forming the pointy nose.
Body
7. To make the body of the praying mantis fold a large paper plate in half. Glue the other end of the neck pipe cleaner to the inside center line of the folded body paper plate. Glue it so the bendable part of the straw is right next to the edge of the paper plate.
Arms
8. To make the praying mantis' arms place two small paper plates together and cut arm shapes about five inches long (see diagram). (A pattern for the arm is available to members.)
9. Cut the ends off of two pipe cleaners so that the long end is only four inches long. Insert two pipe cleaners into each straw and glue them to the straws so they don't fall out. Connect the two arm by winding the pipe cleaners together at the long end of the straw and glue the arms under the head as shown in the picture. Glue the paper plate arm pieces to the short end of the arm straw just below the bend in the straw. Glue the end of the pipe cleaners to the inside of the arm piece (see the diagram above.)
Front Legs
10. To make the two front legs cut the long ends of two straws so they are 4 1/2" inches long. Insert two pipe cleaners into each straw so that 1/4" of the pipe cleaners are sticking out the long ends of the straws. Glue the pipe cleaners to the straws so they don't come out. Cut two, three-inch lengths of straws and insert the ends of the pipe cleaners that are sticking out of the legs into the three-inch straws to make the bottom of the legs. Fold up the pipe cleaners that are sticking out the end to make the feet. If the pipe cleaners aren't long enough, insert more pipe cleaners. Glue the legs inside the body paper plate next to the neck straw.
Back Legs
11. To make the back legs use one straw for each leg. insert two pipe cleaners into each straw so that 1/2" of the pipe cleaners stick out the short end of the straw. Glue the pipe cleaners into the straws so they don't fall out. Glue the pipe cleaners at the short end of the straws to the inside of the folded body about 5" from the front legs. Fold the straws at the bend and then fold up the pipe cleaners that are sticking out the end and wind them around each other.
Wings and Eyes
12. To finish cut wings from another large paper plate and glue them to the neck. Paint the paper plates. Cut eyes from green paper and glue them to the head. (A pattern is available to members.)
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Ladybug Crafts
  Ladybug Crafts for Kids - Go to the Ladybug Crafts Page for craft and Activities
You will find a ladybug rock craft, ladybugs with moveable wings craft, and crafts and activities to go with Eric Carle's book, The Grouchy Ladybug,
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3D Paper Goliath Beetle Craft
This beetle is fairly simple to make using only 6 parts - a circle for the thorax, two wing patterns, the under part of the beetle and its legs, and then two forelegs. It is made from card stock (Heavy paper) and construction paper. After assembling the bug children can paint it to look like a Goliath Beetle, and add pompom eyes. This craft is available to members only.
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Changing Colors Golden Tortoise Beetle Paper Craft
What you will need: Computer paper, glue, gold and red crayons, scissors, and black paper
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How to make:
1. Draw a large circle on a piece of paper and add eyes, head, and wings to make a beetle (see picture above). Make an exact copy. Color one beetle red and the other gold. Draw another circle the same size onto white computer paper. (Printable patterns for this craft are available to members.)
2. Cut the beetles and the white circle out.
3. Fold the colored beetle patterns in half so that the right side is inside, then glue the patterns back-to-back, wrong sides together, the right side of yellow beetle to the back of the left side of the red beetle.
4. Cut out antennae and legs and glue them onto the white circle. Glue the left side of the yellow pattern and the right side of the red pattern onto the bottom pattern. When you flip over one side of the beetle it will turn a different color.
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Mosquito
Craft for Kids
 What
you will need: Black poster board, card stock paper, pipe cleaner,
milky pens, paper clasps, hole punch
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How to make:
1. Print
out the free pattern (Printing Problems?)onto card stock. Cut out the body and head from black poster
board. Glue the head onto the body. Cut the wings out and punch
a hole where indicated. Punch holes in the body where the
x's are.
2. Feed
one pipe cleaner through the top left hole from front to back and
then into the top right hole from the back to front. Pull
the pipe cleaner half way through so that the legs are even. Fold
the legs as shown in the picture. Do the same thing with the
next to set of holes. Attach the wings where indicted with
two paper clasps so that the wings will move.
3. Draw
the eyes.
4. Fold
half a pipe cleaner in half to form the antennae and tape them to
the back of the head. Punch a hole for the proboscis and feed a
pipe cleaner through the hole wind it around itself and cut it to
the length you would like.
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Butterfly,
Caterpillar, and Inchworm Crafts for Kids
  Go to the Butterfly Craft Page for lots of Butterfly, Caterpillar,
and Inchworm crafts .
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Bug
Feelers and Bug Eyes Head Band
 What you will need: Construction paper, pipe cleaners, tape,
stapler, pompoms with holes in them, paper, markers or crayons, scissors,
and glue.
How to make:
To make the headband cut a piece of construction paper in half
lengthwise. Fold each piece in half lengthwise.
Unfold the pieces and fold the sides in to meet the center fold. Unfold the halves
and tape them together to make a long band. Fold them back up.
Fit the bands to each child's head and staple
them. You may have to add another piece for older children. Cover the staples with tape so that the staple don't scratch
the children's head. Show the children how to wind a pipe cleaner
around a pencil to make it into a spring shape. Let the children
pick out two pompom balls. Place a small amount of glue at the end
of the pipe cleaner and push it through the pompoms. Staple the feelers
inside the band. Let the children draw eyes on a piece of paper
and cut them out and then tape them to the band.
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More
Bug Crafts on The Resource Room
The
Resource Room is
designed for Sunday School teachers and home school parents.
All of the crafts on The Resource Room are biblically based
. Most of the crafts go along with one of the Bible lessons
found on The Resource Room. All the crafts were designed
for preschool and elementary age children. All the crafts are
original and inexpensive which are great for home school use
and large groups such as Sunday school classes and vacation
Bible school.
Caterpillar
to Butterfly Folder Paper Craft
 This picture looks like
a picture of a caterpillar when you look at it from one direction
and a butterfly when you look at it from another direction.
 "Everything
God has Made is Good" Spider and Spider Web
This
little spider is holding the Bible verse "And God saw all
that he had made, and behold, it was very good." to remind
children that even spiders and other slimy, scary animals are
good.
Bug Crafts
on other Pages:
 Spider
Bag Puppet Craft
Milk Jug Spider Craft
Ladybug
Candy Holder Craft
Lady
Bug Plant Stake Craft
Insect
Crafts on Other Sites
 Create a Bug Mask on TrustTerminix.com. Print out the mask pieces, color and glue together. You will also find interactive games such as Create-a-bug and Swarmer Slider Puzzle, coloring sheets, an ant maze, and bug word searches.
Praying
Mantis Printout from
Enchanted Learning.
Insects
Made from Leaves, Sticks and other Natural Items from the University of Kentucky Entomology Web Site.
Caterpillar
Turns into a Butterfly - Cut and fold paper craft.
Eric
Carle Web Site - There are lots of craft and activity ideas here that go along
with his books such as "The Very Hungry Caterpillar, "The Grouch
Ladybug", "The Very Busy Spider", "The Very Lonely Caterpillar,
and"The Very Quiet Cricket".
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