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Foam Bugs



A great book for our Summer week on bugs.  The illustrations are very colorful and busy.  There are also little hidden dressed up bugs throughout the book.  Of course this book also rhymes which makes it awesome!
The Dragons took some time looking at each page before we turned it.  There was just so much to look at and laugh at.

After we read the book we made...

I love this craft because foam sticks to almost anything when it is wet.  These will be perfect for a fun bath later.

Materials: 

  • foam
  • scissors
  • sharpie
  • pencil
First we drew our bugs with pencil, just in case there was a mistake.  Then outlined them with sharpie. 
Next we cut them out.  Foam is really easy to cut, even with safety scissors. 



When they were finished we squirted the white board with water so the bugs would all stick. 



We did some bug identification using our new bug friends.  The Dragons named all the bugs we created and all the bugs we didn't have.

Then they were used for pretend play/story telling



Thanks for reading!  Check out more of my bug activities here.
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