Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Creepy Crawlies category.
Art for Kids !
Taken from the Activity Idea Place:
http://123child.com/UBB/showthread.php?t=7404
Kool Aid Rain Art
Sprinkle a little dry Kool aid mix onto a piece of paper. Have your child spray water from a spray bottle onto the paper. Use different colored Kool-aid mix. For added adventure, you may choose to take your children out into the rain with a piece of paper that has Kool-aid on it.
Safari Map
Tear a large piece of paper from a brown grocery bag. Lie the paper flat and have the children create a safari map on the paper. You may use black paint and markers for the map. They can use stamps, stickers, pictures from magazines or draw the animals they might see.
Safari Vests
Make and decorate vests from paper grocery bags.
Rain Sticks
Seal off one end of a paper towel tube with tape or tape heavy construction paper or tagboard over one hole. Prepoke holes in the side of the paper towel tube with either a small nail or an awl. The child then can insert toothpicks into the holes. Have the child fill with dried rice or lentils, then seal the other end of the tube. Cover the tube with construction paper, then have the child decorate as desired. To use the rain stick, simply turn it over and listen to the “rain”.
Paper Plate Snakes
Draw a spiral on a paper plate that goes from the outside to the inside of the plate. Have the child cut along the line. Deocrate the snake with green paint, crayons, stickers or whatever you desire. Hang the snakes by the middle of the plate (their tail) about the room to give a jungle feel.
Jungle Vines
Have the children create many different leaves and animals and hang them from brown yarn around the room to represent vines
Foot Parrot
Trace each child’s foot on white paper. Cut out and decorate with colorful paints, crayons, feathers and/or googly eyes.
Rain Art
Fill a spray bottle 3/4 full with water. Place a small amount of paint (powdered or liquid) into the water. If you use too much or do not shake well the paint will clog up the spray bottle. Do this for at least three different bottles, with three different colors. Then place a large piece of paper on the floor, on an easel, on a wall or fence outside. Then have the children spray the colored water on the paper. Allow to dry.
Raindrop Hats
Make hats from newsprint and have the child decorate with blue paint or rain and rainbow stickers.
Torn Paper Raindrops
Draw a raindrop shape on a piece of paper. Have the children tear pieces of blue construction paper, and glue them inside the lines for the raindrop shape.
Raindrop Necklaces
Supply the children with raindrop shaped stencil. Have the children cut out raindrop shapes from construction paper. Then, have the child use a hole punch to make a hole, so they can thread them onto a piece of yarn.
Rain Cookie Cutter Art:
Obtain a cookie cutter that is shaped like a raindrop. Have the children dip the cookie cutter in a shallow container of blue paint, then press onto a piece of paper to make raindrop prints.
Raindrop Rubbings
Cut raindrop shapes from paper doilies or sandpaper. Tape these raindrops to the table. Have the children place a piece of thin white paper over the raindrops and rub a crayon over the raindrop.
Pipe Cleaner Spiders
Provide the children with pipe cleaners to make spiders. Have the children twist the pipe cleaners together to form a body and legs. Discuss how many legs a spider has.
Spider Paper Plates
Use a smaller and larger paper plate to make these spiders. Staple the smaller plate onto the larger plate, as if the smaller plate will be the spider’s head. Have the child paint both sides black. Then add black streamers for legs and white construction paper for eyes. Hang them from the ceiling.
Spider Gum drops
Supply the children with large black gum drops and eight toothpicks per child. Have the children push the toothpicks in the gum drops to represent the spiders legs.
Snake Tracks
This one is a lot of fun, and has great results. Set out a piece of yarn for each color of paint you intend to use. Have the child dip the yarn in one color of paint, and run it across the paper. Use a new piece of string for a different color.
Contact Paper Art
You will need a picture of a rainforest animal. A reverse image is needed if the picture can be backwards. Place the image on the table and place a piece of contact paper, sticky side up over the image. Supply the children with scraps of construction paper to tissue paper. Children use the scraps to create the image on the contact paper.
Cookie Cutter Painting
Put a small amount of tempera paint in a large shallow container. (A pie tin works well.) Show your child how to dip the cookie cutter in the paint and press onto a piece of paper to create a print. You can make jungle pictures by using animal cookie cutters and colored paper.
Tiger Stripes
Supply each child with orange and black paper. Have the child tear the black paper into thin stripes, then glue onto the orange paper.
Leopard Prints
Supply each child with a piece of brown paper and black non-toxic stamp pads. Show the child how to make fingerprints on the paper, using only one finger at a time.
Fingerprint Monkeys
Put a small amount of tempera paint in a small shallow container. (The metal lid of a juice bottle works well) Show your child how to dip his/her finger in the paint and make a fingerprint on a piece of paper. (Alternative: Use a non-toxic ink pad) have your child make several fingerprints using yellow or light brown paint. After the paint dries, add the facial features with a pen.
Lizards
Cut out lizard shapes from construction paper. Have the children decorate them with scraps of paper, tissue paper, yarn and other items.
Other Fingerprint Ideas:
Giant Ant Hill
Materials: Large Butcher Paper Black crayon Cut the paper in the shape of an ant hill. Help your child draw tunnels with the crayon and draw ants in the tunnels.
Ants in the Dirt
Materials: Brown and blue construction paper None toxic ink pad Glue Black Marker Have the children tear pieces of the brown construction paper and glue them onto the bottom of the blue paper to represent the dirt and sky. After the glue has dried, have the children place a few fingerprints on the brown paper to represent ants. Add legs and antennae with black marker.
Ants at My Picnic
Materials: Construction paper Paper plates Magazine ads for food Black marker Have your child glue pictures of their favorite foods onto the paper plate, then glue the plate onto the paper as if the paper were the place mat. Then have your child draw the ants on the place mat and plate.
Fingerprint Ants
Materials: Non toxic ink pad (black) Paper Black pen or crayon Show your child how to make finger prints on a piece of paper. Have your child draw six legs, a head and antennae onto their prints to create ants.
Balloon Ants
Materials: Balloon Marker Yarn Blow up a balloon, have your child tape six pieces of yarn onto the balloon for the ants legs, and let them draw on a face.
Tube Ants
Materials: Cardboard tube from a tissue paper roll Raisins Have your child dip the raisins into glue and stick them inside the tube to simulate ants being in their tunnels. Add pieces of green yarn to represent grass.
Play doh Ants
Have your children make Ants out of play doh.
Busy Ants Headbands:
Have the children cut out two strips of paper that when connected will fit around their head. Connect the strips with glue or tape, (staples will catch the child’s hair). Supply the children with two pipe cleaners… and have them shape them however they want to and tape them on the inside of the headband. On mine I wrote “Busy Ant Suzy” and “Busy Ant Max” or whatever they wanted to be.
Toothpick and Marshmallow Ants
Supply older children with marshmallows and toothpicks. They can connect three marshmallows with toothpicks to form the body and head. They may use toothpicks for the legs as well.
Starbucks (w/paint) Ant Hills!
Starbucks (w/paint) Ant Hills! – Image submitted by Julia
Have your child use and ant stamp to create an ant scene. When dry, add a mixture of coffee grounds, glue and brown paint to create an ant hill. Allow to dry completely.
Egg Carton Ants
Egg Carton Ants – Image submitted by Julia
Cut out three sections of a cardboard egg carton. Have the child paint the egg carton brown. When dry attach pipe cleaners for legs and googly eyes.
Busy Kids Pom Pom Bug Kit Makes 6 Pom Pom Bugs – Butterfly, Bee & Ladybugs
Educraft Super Foam Bugs
assorted colors, non-toxic glue, wiggly eyes and a FREE EduCraft® Guide with instructions to make 12 bugs.
Play doh bugs
Have your children make bugs out of play doh.
Play-Doh Rainbow 50 Pack
Bug Buddies Metal Cutter Set – 6pc
Bee Strips
Cut out bee shapes. Have the children cut out black and yellow strips to add to their bee. Then have them glue the stripes on their bee.
Pom Pom Caterpillar Pom Pom Caterpillar
Supply the children with many pom poms to glue together to make a caterpillar. Add pipe cleaner legs and wiggly eyes.
GLITTER POM PONS
Chenille Kraft Pom Pom Hot Colors 50
Pom Pom Variety Pack Multi Brights
Pipe Cleaners,12″
WIGGLE EYES STICKERS ON A ROLL
Pom Pom Butterfly
This activity is very teacher directed. Please use the image as a guide.
Butterfly Stamps
Have the children use various sizes of butterfly and bug stamps. These can be colored with Crayola markers, then pressed on construction paper, to give a variety of different colors on each butterfly or bug.
Contact Paper Butterfly
Supply the children with a picture of a butterfly and a piece of contact paper. Place the contact paper over the picture, sticky side up. Supply the children with bits of tissue paper to decorate the butterfly.
Creepy Crawlies Art ~ part 2 !
Butterfly Footprints
What You Need:
Large White Paper
Paint
Markers, Glitter, or Other Decorating Materials
What You Do:
Put the Children’s footprints on the paper (separated to make wings of a butterfly) Then (after they have dried) let the kids design their own unique butterfly
Make Your Own Bug !
What You Need:
cotton balls
egg cartons
google eyes
pipe cleaners
construction paper
glitter, any other material that you want to use.
What You Do:
Cut the egg cartons and let the children make their own bug
Design An Insect !
What You Need:
Pipe Cleaners
Popsicle Stick
Feathers
Football Shakers
Google Eyes
Construction Paper
Glitter
What You Do:
After talking about insects, and looking at insect pictures. Give the kids all of the materials and let them design their own insect. You will be amazed what great insects your kids will come up with
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” Weave
What You Need:
Paint
Paper
Yarn
What You Do:
Have your children create several different Foods that the very hungry caterpillar would eat. Next have them cut these out. Punch holes in the foods and then weave them together with green yarn. (as if the caterpillar had ate through them)
“The Grouchy Ladybug” ~ Lady bug
What You Need:
Paper Plates
Paint
Medal Fastener (brass fastner)
What You Do:
Give each child two small paper plates and have them paint one as a ladybug. Next have them cut that plate in half Have them paint the second plate as a lady bug with its wings spread. Attach the two halves to the second plate with a medal fastner. Now the wings of the ladybug can open and shut!!!
Spider Mask
What You Need:
Paint
Paper Plate
Yarn
Garbage Bag
What You Do:
I’m a 3 yr. old preschool teacher, one of our projects was a spider mask. We took a large paper plate painted it black, next hole punch 4 holes 2 on each side of the mask near the edge of the plate. Then from a clean black garbage bag cut four 16 inch strips. Help the child thread a strip through each small hole in his plate and tie the strip in the center, it will make the spiders eight legs, glue a large craft stick on the back of the mask.
Creepy Crawlies Art !
I’m currently working on the theme of creepy crawlies for this month and found this nugget from Preschool Express
LADYBUG ACTIVITIES
HOLE PUNCH LADYBUGS
Cut two medium ladybug shapes out for each of your children (one from red paper and one from black paper).
Cut off the heads of the red shapes and cut them in-half.
Give each child a black bug and two half wing shapes.
Have children place the two red shapes on top of each other and using a hole punch, punch out some holes in the red paper.
Then have them glue the red shape over the black bug shape to create a colorful spotted ladybug.
LARGE LADYBUGS
Take the large bug pattern and cut it in half.
Cut out a half ladybug from red paper.
Let your children color the head black with a marking pen.
Then, have them make black dots on the body or glue on black poms.
These large half ladybugs can walk across the top of a bulletin board or make a fun boarder around the room.
FELT BOARD COUNTING GAME
Using the large bug pattern, cut out a red felt ladybug.
Out of black felt, cut out another head and a black thin line to place down the middle of the ladybug.
Next, cut out 12 black felt circles.
Lay the red ladybug on a table or place on a felt board. Place the black head and centerline on the red felt bug.
Then, let your children take turns rolling a dice and placing that many circles on each side of the ladybug’s red wings.
LADYBUG PICTURE
Cut out 2-3 small ladybug shapes for each of your children out of red paper.
Have children color the heads black and add black dots on the backs with crayons or marking pens.
Give children a piece of green paper and have them glue on some green “Easter” grass or have your children fringe some paper and glue it on.
Then, have them glue on their small ladybugs crawling on the grass.
LADYBUG CONCEPT GAMES
COLOR – When helping your children make ladybugs, be sure to point out that the body (or wings) are “red” and the head and spots are “black”.
SIZE – Make three ladybugs of different sizes. Have your children place them in order – from largest to smallest or from smallest to largest.
ALPHABET – Bug starts with the sound and letter “b”. Ladybug starts with the sound and letter “l”. Write out both words for your child to compare. Have them look for the word bug in the word ladybug.
SPACIAL RELATIONS – Buy a small ladybug stamp and find an old magazine or calendar for this project. Give your child directions like, “Stamp a ladybug on “top” of the house, or stamp a ladybug “under” the table”.
SPIDER ART
HAND PRINT SPIDERS
Here is a great idea sent in by Sara Bishop from Otterbein, IN. Set out black paint and brushes, plus some white paper.
Have your child paint four fingers and part of her palm on one hand.
Then, holding her thumb out of the way, press her painted fingers down on a piece of paper.
Repaint the four fingers and partial palm and this time press the fingers down next to the first print but with the fingers pointing in the opposite direction.
Now, you should see an eight legged black spider crawling across the paper.
STAND-UP SPIDERS
Give your child an 8” x 8” piece of black paper.
Have him fold his paper in half.
Open the paper and mark off eight 1” sections on one side.
Then, give him some safe scissors and have him cut seven slits in the paper (from your marks to the folded center).
Now, roll the paper into a cylinder shape and glue or tape the ends together on the top section.
Bend out the cut sections, creating eight spider legs.
Have your child glue on paper circle eyes to complete the spider.
Variation: You can make a miniature version of this paper spider by using a small 3” x 4” piece of paper.
TUBE SPIDERS
Have your child take a clean toilet tissue tube (or half of a paper towel tube) and cut eight slits halfway up the tube on one end.
Bend out the cut slits (legs).
Finally, have your child paint the spider with black tempera paint.
PLAY DOUGH SPIDERS
My kids always enjoyed these wiggly spiders.
Make some black play dough by adding black paint or powder paint to your favorite play dough recipe.
Give your child two small balls of black dough.
Next, have your children take four rubber bands and cut them open.
Then using some elastic string, tie the string around the middle of the three rubber bands.
Now, have your child lay the rubber bands across one piece of dough and use the other piece to wrap around the string forming a fat spider with eight legs sticking out.
When the dough dries, these fun spiders can be held by the elastic string and pulled up and down.
SPIDER HEADBANDS
Cut out a 3” x 18” strip of black paper and eight 1” x 5” strips of black paper.
Have your child glue the eight small strips sticking off the top of the larger strip, four on each side.
Let dry.
Wrap the large strip around your child’s head, overlap the ends and tape them together creating a headband. (Be sure the glued side of the large strip ends up on the inside of the headband.)
Now, show your child how to bend the small strips in the middle to create a knee.
Next, bend the bottom of each strip the opposite direction to create a foot.
PAPER SPIDER WEBS
Cut black construction paper circles to fit in the bottom of a round cake pan.
Place a black circle in the pan and then place a glob of white tempera paint in the center.
Let your children take turns coming up and holding the pan.
Drop a marble into the pan and have the child tilt the pan, so that the marble will roll back and forth through the paint, creating white spokes.
There is no right or wrong to these web designs.
Let children glue on black poms for spiders if you wish.
Variation: These can also be done with black paper plates.
YARN SPIDER WEBS
These webs turn out great but they are not super easy. I would only do them with children at least four. Set out large sections of waxed paper.
Give each child, 6 -12″ pieces of white yarn.
Set out a pan of white glue.
Have your children take turns dunking their yarn pieces in the glue.
They can squeeze off excess glue by holding the string pieces over the glue pan and squeezing the yarn between two fingers and pulling the yarn up.
Have the children lay 4 of the yarn pieces cross an imaginary center spot on the waxed paper, creating an 8 legged spoke.
Finally, have them dunk the last two pieces of yarn into the glue and place them around the spokes creating one large circle. They should overlap the ends of the two halves of yarn when creating the circles.
Set aside the webs to dry over night.
Later, go back over the children’s webs and with a squeeze bottle of glue, reinforce the areas on each web that cross over each other with additional glue.
When webs are dry, carefully remove them from the waxed paper.
Display on black paper or hang the webs down around your room.
BLACK PAPER SPIDERS
This spider activity lets your children practice their cutting skills. Cut black construction paper into 6″ x 9″ pieces.
Have children take a sheet, lay it sideways and make six cuts in the paper, starting at the bottom and cutting up to the middle of the paper. (Making 6 cuts will produce 7 sections.) You can do this part, if your children can not cut straight.
Then, have children wrap the sides of their papers around into a cylinder, overlapping the two end sections.
Next, have your children glue the two end sections together.
When the sides are secure, have the children fold out the bottom sections, creating 6 spider legs.
Spiders can now set upright.
Finally, have children glue on two spider eyes. Use small white paper circles or give them moving eyes.
Variation: You can make small versions of these spiders for finger puppets
“WORM” PAINTINGS
Let your children try one or more of these ideas.
Dip cooked spaghetti strands into paint and wiggle them across paper like worms.
Make “worm tracks” with pieces of yarn or string dipped into paint.
When finger-painting, wiggle fingers like worms to create designs.
PLAY DOUGH WORMS
Make play dough and color it brown with tempera paint. Give your children pieces of the dough to roll into snake-like worms. If you wish, let the children arrange their worms on Easter grass placed or glued on paper plates.
MEASURING YARN WORMS
Make “worms” by cutting brown yarn into pieces of different lengths. Set out the yarn worms in a pile. Then invite your children to arrange them from shortest to longest or from longest to shortest.
WORM PUPPETS
Give each of your children a small paper cup to use for making a “worm home.” Let them decorate their cups with glued-on flower shapes cut from colored paper and Easter grass. Help them poke a hole in the bottom of their cups. Then show them how to stick a finger up through the hole for a worm. Encourage them to make up stories about their worm puppets to share with one another.
