Kids enjoy watching and touching these tiny, fast-moving critters that fly or crawl. Capitalize on their fascination and set up some bug centers in your classroom.
Here's a fun graphing game printable that is perfect for an insect unit or to use when students are learning to graph. Students move around the game board, collect bugs on their hunt, and graph their results! Materials: Going on a Bug Hunt game board game pieces (buttons, coins, etc.) paper clip pencil bug hunt
20 plus bug crafts - fun kid crafts, ladybugs, fireflies, caterpillars, bees lots of insects to create in this list of crafts for kids
I recall when I first heard a yellow warbler’s song; it was music against the backdrop of residential traffic in my suburban neighbourhood.
This Butterfly Matching Game and more Bug Games will help children practice visual discrimination skills. We're getting ready to learn about bugs in my
Help your students learn their shapes with these fun butterfly shapes worksheets! These shapes coloring pages will not only help your students get familiar with shapes, but they will also help with color recognition and fine motor skills too! Butterfly Shapes Coloring Page With Color Coded Key Completed Butterfly Shapes Worksheet
Okay, I admit this week I have had a wee bit of a pinning issue. Pinterest is just TOO easy and TOO much fun! It is all the stuff that everyone else is doing that I wish I were...but I am not... At least not yet, I will remain hopeful that someday I will get to all those creative pins and sew everything on my Things I want to sew...NOW! board like... This super cute dress for warmer days from Adventures in Dressmaking Here is the link Or maybe Sara's Aeroplane Bag. I did order the fabric for this from Sew Mama Sew's AMAZING $6 fabric sale! If I am feeling SUPER energetic I may dabble in some Awesome Quilts I LOVE this one by Vanessa from Vand Co. Photo from VandCo. site Or this colorful lovely from Red Pepper Quilts Photo from Red Pepper Quilts For now, I think I will take in all the Just really cool stuff, let all the color and ideas fill my brain to get my creative juices flowing... Look at this adorable vintage fabric dragonfly... The only link available I am over the moon about this chair from Fiber and Fire Photo from Fiber and Fire site This one with just makes me so HAPPY! Photo from Flickr So, if you are on Pinterest look me up and pin some great stuff to feed my frenzy of seeking out inspiration for all the things I should be doing and not just pinning ;o)
We finished up our butterfly/moth study this week with a little butterfly sipping experiment. The students used their butterfly proboscis (straw) to sip nectar (apple juice) from a flower. After we did this little experiment, the students had to come back and write what they learned about how butterflies eat: Here were some of our centers this week: Matching time to the hour and half hour. Unscramble the butterfly sentences: Sort butterfly nouns and verbs: Next week, we are learning about insects so I will be carrying over some of the activities that are in my Butterfly Bonanza unit. All the above activities are included in this unit and you can check them out by clicking on the picture. For our writing center next week, the kids will be making "Bugs on a Log" and writing a "how to" telling how they did it. These are my old posters that I used for this little activity (back when I literally cut and pasted everything!) These are the ingredients you need to make "Bugs on a Log": Now that I am becoming adept at using the handy dandy laptop, I have updated the old posters into these: After they make their "Bugs on a Log", they will write how to do it on this sequencing/writing form: Grab yourself a copy by clicking on one of the pictures above. To make these posters, I used: Graphics From the Pond http://frompond.blogspot.com Happy Weekend Friends!
Brighten up your space with an adorable plastic bottle butterfly. This recycled craft is SO FUN to make! Who knew you could create such a pretty butterfly from a recycled bottle?! Use our free butterfly templates (find the links below!) and some paint markers to breathe new life into an everyday soda bottle. Transform your recycled pop bottle into a colourful butterfly. It's a great spring and summer craft for the whole family! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which helps us run this website. How to
Winner of a 2017 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Silver Medal!Millions of creatures live in the backyard: beetles and bugs; butterflies and birds; turtles and toads; ants, earthworms, and tiny animals hidden in the grass or deep in the soil. These creatures lead busy lives, climbing trees, crawling over rocks, searching for food, and building nests. With this book's 46 pages of illustrations — each accompanied by fact-filled captions — kids can combine the fun of coloring with the fascination of discovering how all kinds of living creatures are linked together.Realistic pictures to color depict the backyard through all four seasons and during the day and night. The captions identify different types of trees, flowers, and bushes; butterflies, moths, and birds; reptiles and amphibians; and many other plants and animals. Suitable for ages 8-11, this informative coloring book recaptures the excitement of the natural world that's right outside the back door.
These insect printables are such a fun learning activity for kids to do in the spring or when learning about bugs! These pages can help kids practice fine motor skills, handwriting, scissor skills, memory, problem-solving, and more. These activities are great for preschool, pre k, and kindergarten children. Use them at home with your kids or in the classroom!
Here is a simple and fun little project to work on with the kids for Spring. The last few weeks we have been raising caterpillars and learning about life cycles and insects and bugs. My children have been having so much fun with this little science lesson and we decided to wrap up the...Read More »
Ladybugs, spiders, and worms make for a fun learning experience for kids. Do you know what can make it even more fun and change things up from the same old, same old? How about trying
An animated guide to 42 different species of butterflies.
These insect theme printables are all fun and engaging activities for your math and literacy centers this spring. There are 11 insect math activities, 8 insect literacy activities, an insect craft, visual discrimination puzzles and a caterpillar building cards. As you can tell, it is jam-packed with lots of learning!
These Insect Picture Word Cards will work well with a Bug Theme. Included words are butterfly, caterpillar, ladybug, bee, ant, dragonfly,
These magical singing creatures are a fun summer craft activity for both you and your child. You can even go […]
Learn about 24 insects for preschoolers with cute bug printables reader for learning lowercase alphabet letters! FREE do a dot printables!
Looking for awesome Bug Activities for preschool? This awesome set is a mix of cute preschool bug crafts and educational activities for your math and literacy centers. They are hands on, and there is some fun science mixed in as well.
These insect printables are such a fun learning activity for kids to do in the spring or when learning about bugs! These pages can help kids practice fine motor skills, handwriting, scissor skills, memory, problem-solving, and more. These activities are great for preschool, pre k, and kindergarten children. Use them at home with your kids or in the classroom!
Raising butterflies from caterpillars is a wonderful science project for kids to teach them about metamorphosis, natural habitats and caring for wildlife.
We are so excited to share a very fun activity today. My girls, R and M (ages 4 and 3), love any preschool art activity with even a bit of paint involved. Either that, or glue.
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Learn about the small world of bugs with these insect preschool activities crawling with fun! Find the perfect hands-on bug activities for preschoolers!
These free printable 3D bug coloring pages make for a fun and unique insect coloring sheet experience. Print them out, cut out the pieces and color!
As one of our favorite spring time activities, we have enjoyed this Butterfly Catching Roll and Count simple math activity. Kids love practicing number recognition, writing numbers and counting with this butterfly math game.
I had so much fun creating this new printable set. I'm so excited to finally offer something for the little learning ones in my home and yours!! This Butterfly Tot & PreK-K pack is jam packed
Students work on key listening and visual discrimination skills with this fun and free butterfly bingo game! These colorful butterfly activities are sure to add a little fun to your preschool classroom.
Fun spring addition game for kindergarten practicing addition to 10. This butterfly math is a fun spring activities for kindergarten!
These tie dye baby wipes butterflies are super fun to make and even more beautiful to display! Just a few simple materials is all you need!
Make a beautiful butterfly with this build a butterfly craft. A lovely cut and paste activity for preschool and kindergarten insect lovers!
Pretty, fun-to-make butterfly craft with stunning shaving cream art project marbeling effect. Surprisingly SIMPLE summer crafts for kids!
Let's practice some counting with little ones.We prepared a funny counting worksheet. Kids will count the bugs and color the answer...
Tot school this week is all about butterflies. It’s been a rainy few days over here, so I am thankful we had a week full of fun exploration to keep us busy indoors. Here were our plans for our butterfly theme: And here are the details of each activity: Our favorite butterfly books for […]
