Buggy Crafts  

Carrie Stanny, Whitehall; Jen Pickle, CLP

and Sharon Helfrich, Andrew Bayne

 

• Beautiful Butterflies - Use colored tissue paper to create a mock-stained glass butterfly.

• Bug Crafts - Create clothespin butterflies, styrofoam ladybugs, or egg carton caterpillars.

• Create Your Own Compound Eye! - Use this to let kids see like bugs.

• Bug Stencils bug_stencils.pdf

• Bug Fonts

• Dancing Love Bugs! - this craft event lets kids create their own bug puppets that "dance".

• Ladybugs - Craft and game!

• A bunch of buggy crafts from Family Fun

• Where Do Butterflies Come From? - Create a chrysalis and butterfly to help kids understand the transformation!

• Altered 'buggy' Notebook

• Make an Insect Mask

• Fairy Crafts
  • Fairy House FAQ 
  • Use the Spiderwick series by Holly Blac
  • How to make a Fairy House with food
  • Making Fairy Wings 
  • An easy Fairy House
  • Mushroom Fairy House 
  • Comprehensive List of Fairy Books 
  • A BIG Fairy House 
  • Five Fairy Crafts 
  • Fairy Houses
  • Sparkling Clothespin Fairies 
• Crayloa Website Crafts
  • Clay Butterflies
  • Buggy Bag Puppets
  • Spider Treat Bag 
  • Big Bright Bugs 
  • Blow Bugs
  • Bright Butterflies 
  • Bugs on a Quilt 
  • Butterfly Puppet Bags 
  • Follow a Butterfly Lifecycle Mobile
  • Fascinating Fireflies
  • Cow Pie Flies
  • Buttefly Finger Puppets
  • Butterfly Gift Bags
  • Bug Pop-Up Book
  • Dangling Spider 
  • Brilliant Butterfly Kite
  • Daring Dragonfly Suncatcher
  • Butterfly Wings
  • Buggy Clip-It Clothespins
  • Crawling Creatures
  • Coffee Filter Butteflies
  • Lifesize Frogs and Dragonflies
  • Flutter Flight Kite
  • Butterfly Bookmark
  • Spider Costume 
  • I Spy Telescope craft (for bug hunting!)
  • Bug Jewelry

 

Bug Craft for Big Crowd

•  bee craft.doc (great for large crowds of 2-5 year olds)

 

Buggy Food

• Dirt and Bugs to Eat: From the Kraft Foods Website
• Dish of Dirt
• Oreo Sand and Dirt Cups
• Garden of Eatin'

More Bug Crafts

• Bug Bingo
  • Lanternfish Insect Bingo 
  • University of Kentucky: A Teacher's Guide to BUG-GO
• Bug Crafts
  • Carrie's Pipe-Cleaner Bugs scanned crafts.pdf
  • Bug Catcher 
  • Backyard Bug Collector 
  • Terminix Bug Mask
  • Yucky Bug Pizza
  • Butterfly Fliers
  • Paper Plate Lady Bug
  • Paper Plate Crafts 
  • Paper Plate Crafts.doc
  • Love Bug
  • a Plethora of Buggy crafts
  •  Grasshopper OR Frog Pop-Up Puppet   
  • Grasshopper OR Frog Pop-Up Puppet.doc
  • Cursive Design Bug 
  • Cursive Design Bug.doc
  • Fairy/Butterfly Wings
    • Fairy Wings
    • Fairy Wings II
    • Butterfly Wings

    • Origami Butterfly 

• Bug Swat Game

  • Bug Swat Game.doc  

• Bug Swat Clip Art.ppt 
• Bugs Bugs & More Bugs (more bug crafts) 
• Paper Shapes Bumblebee
• Very Hungry Caterpillar 

• Butterfly 
• Balloon Spider 
• Egg Carton Ants 
• Praying Mantis
• Dragonfly Craft 

• Bug Jar Bug Jar.doc

• Ladybugs with Movable Wings  Ladybugs with Movable Wings.doc