Shew Fly Don't Bother Me!

Learning about bugs is always a fun thing for little kids...especially little boys. What's better then dirt, tools and eewy, wiggly bugs!

After searching Pinterest and my favorite blogs, I found the best activities, recipes and games that are perfect for kids ages 3 and under.

Let's begin with the book list. Some of the top books include: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!, Bugs Are Insects, A Firefly in a Fir Tree, Leo the Lightning Bug, Ten Little Caterpillars

 

 

 

Sensory Tub

The sensory tub included the following: plastic bugs, magnify glass, safari hats, rocks, sticks, bug nets & leaves.

 

 

 

 

Activities

 

1) Play with mud dough (mix baking soda, water & food coloring)  We also buried bugs in the mud dough. They dug them out with their hands or we got a squirt gun and sprayed water on the bugs to clean them off.

 

 

 



 

2) Go on a Bug Hunt! Use your binoculars, bug hats and nets to catch bugs in the yard

 

3) Play mosquito tag. Give each kid a few stickers to hold in their hands. On go, kids chase each other.  When you tag another person you have to stick the sticker on them. The sticker represents a mosquito bite. When we played it, I had the kids yell, "Mosquito!!" 

 

4) Glow in the Dark bug hunt. Go to Dollar Tree and get a bag of glow-in-the-dark bugs for $1. At night, I hid the bugs in our bedroom and bathroom. Shaye went "looking" for all the bugs in the dark. He thought it was so cool to hunt for bugs inside!

 

5) Read the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Then use the cut outs to have them sequence the food while you read the book.

 

 



 

6) Bug Movement Cards. Do movements according to the cards. For example, Dance like a Bee, Spin like a Spider, Roll like a Roly Poly, etc.

 

 

 

7) Animal Sort Activities. You can sort by size, color or attributes. One we did was sorting by bugs that had wings vs. no wings.