Cut a piece of paper into a long strip. Divide it into four parts. Draw the stages of a butterfly on each section.

Read Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Make a number book, naming the foods that the caterpillar ate.

Felt Bees
Make black felt bees. Add yellow puffy paint stripes. When dried, glue to the end of a felt strip to make a bookmark.

Butterfly Mobiles
Children fol wallpaper samples or colorful magazine pages in half. Then trace and cut butterfly shapes and glue the shapes together with the pattern facing out. They can add black construction paper bodies and antennae. Hang the butterflies from the ceiling with yarn or string.

Buggy Cartoon
Draw a funny cartoon for: stinkbug squashbug bedbug doodlebug jitterbug humbug

New Bug in Town!
Create a brand new bug. Tell what its name is, what it looks like ,where it lives, what it eats and what it can do. Then draw a picture of it.

Ladybug Thumbprints
Draw some leaves on a sheet of white paper.Dip you finger in red paint. Press it onto the leaves that you drew. Let dry. While you wait, write a poem about a ladybug. Using a cotton swab, add black spots to the ladybug. Then using a black marker, add the feelers and legs.

Pompom Caterpillars
 Glue three middle size pom poms together. paste on eyes and feelers.  You can put magnetic tape on back to make a fridge magnet.

Big Letter " A"  With Ants
 stamp pad, paper, markers   Cut out a big letter A shape for each child and let them make ant prints all over it with their fingerprints and a stamp pad. Let them use small tip markers to draw in some legs. 

Fingerprint Bugs
Press your index finger on an inked stamp pad. Then press on a sheet of white paper. Make several fingerprints across the paper. With a fine felt-tipped marker, add wings, antennae and legs to your creations. All kinds of  bugs can  be made with fingerprints. 

Butterflies in the Park
Give each child a piece of paper and crayons or markers. Have them follow the directions and draw what you ask them to do. 1. Draw a tree. 2. Draw four flowers. 3. Draw one butterfly in the tree. Color it purple. 4.Draw one butterfly on any flower. Color it orange. 5. Draw two butterflies in the sky. Color them yellow. 6. Draw a picnic table 7. Draw three caterpillars on the picnic table. Color them black. 8. Color the tree, flowers and the table.
 
Buggy Glasses
You will need: egg cartons cut in two attached sections, scissors,pencil, paint or aluminium foil, pipe cleaners, ,items for decorating. Cut out the bottoms of the egg cups to make eye holes. Paint the outside of the egg cartons. Make any color or design you want. OR: Cover the egg carton with aluminium foil. Be sure to remove the foil from the eye holes. With a pencil, punch small holes on the left and right side of the egg carton. Attach a pipe cleaner in each hole. Fit it around your ears. Decorate the buggy glasses with decorationg items, eg. stickers, construction paper, etc.)

Bug Caricatures
Have children draw pictures of a "ladybug", "dragonfly", "lightning bug", "potato bug", "monarch butterfly" etc. Have them think about how they would literally imagine them, eg a butterfly might be drawn by drawing a pound of butter with wings attached.

Gi-Ants! Use toothpicks to connect 2 Styrofoam balls and 1 Styrofoam egg   (for the 3 body parts of the ant.) Insert 6 pipe cleaners into the Styrofoam for the legs. Bend the pipe cleaners so that it looks like the ant is walking. Paint it red or black. When dry, glue on googly eyes and there's your giant ant! You could also make giant ant hills by cutting brown construction paper and rolling it into a cone shape. Children can use crumpled pieces of tissue paper to glue on the "sand/dirt." They can build from bottom/up. They could also glue on real sand.

Bug Finger Puppets  
Old Gloves   Pipe Cleaners   Scissors   Hot Glue or Tacky Glue   Misc. craft supplies Cut the fingers off the gloves, they will be the bug's body. Glue on pipe cleaners for legs, wiggly eyes, pompoms for noses, and feathers on back.(Or decorate as desired). Makes cute finger puppets.   
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