Bug Homes
May 15, 2020
This week we talked about different bug homes; plants, dirt, hills, webs and hives. This post may contain affiliate links. They had so much fun running around outside looking for bugs in different types of bug homes.
The kids played in potting soil and built “ant homes” and pretended they had other types of bugs. We used the dirt almost all month as part of our steam stations ideas from our curriculum.
The kids had fun creating the leaf bugs in their Invitation to Create activity. They punched holes in the paper, the younger kids needed help. We gave them paper, stickers, scissors, glue and markers and told them to create.
Every month we have fun creating a journal with all of our daily topics in them, plus our numbers and letters, shapes and colors. The kids get to create and design their journals any way they want.
Even though we learned about ants before, we took it further and focused on their home. We learned that not all ants live in the ground. We made an anthill with a cup and some black markers. You can use paint but we decided to just stick with the markers. We put black beans in the cup and glued the lid on so it could shake without getting beans everywhere.
We learned about spider webs but we also learned that not all spiders spin a web. We gave the kids a cardboard loom and some yarn to wrap around to create a web and use the toy spider in the web.
If you were a bug, what type of bug home would you want to live in?
This week we talked about different bug homes; plants, dirt, hills, webs and hives. This post may contain affiliate links. They had so much fun running around outside looking for bugs in different types of bug homes.
The kids played in potting soil and built “ant homes” and pretended they had other types of bugs. We used the dirt almost all month as part of our steam stations ideas from our curriculum.
The kids had fun creating the leaf bugs in their Invitation to Create activity. They punched holes in the paper, the younger kids needed help. We gave them paper, stickers, scissors, glue and markers and told them to create.
Every month we have fun creating a journal with all of our daily topics in them, plus our numbers and letters, shapes and colors. The kids get to create and design their journals any way they want.
Even though we learned about ants before, we took it further and focused on their home. We learned that not all ants live in the ground. We made an anthill with a cup and some black markers. You can use paint but we decided to just stick with the markers. We put black beans in the cup and glued the lid on so it could shake without getting beans everywhere.
We learned about spider webs but we also learned that not all spiders spin a web. We gave the kids a cardboard loom and some yarn to wrap around to create a web and use the toy spider in the web.
If you were a bug, what type of bug home would you want to live in?
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