To make these cute little bugs you will need a few bits and pieces and depending on the age of the children, adult help will be required.
What you need:
Strawberry Punnets (or something similar)
Felt
Googley Eyes
Pipecleaners (we had two different sorts, one for legs and one for inners!)
Stickers for decorating
Hole Punch
Sticky Tape
Double Sided Tape (or Glue Gun)
There was a little bit of preparation needed for this activity.
The felt needed to be precut and stuck onto the lids of the punnets (we were working with 3 year olds, older children could do this themselves!) and the eyes were also already added. (I secured these with hot glue, you could use double sided tape).
An additional hole was also punched into the top of the strawberry punnet to allow for extra legs as they already had four holes in the lid.
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| All ready for the kids to get started. |
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| One of the punnets with its felt and eyes already attached. The holes to thread the pipecleaner legs through are on the lid next to the felt. |
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| We started by threading three pipecleaners through the holes in the top of the punnet and securing in place with a piece of sticky tape. Some of the children could do this by themselves and others needed some assistance. Was great for hand eye coordination and fine motor skills. |
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| We then wound pipecleaners around our fingers, enough to fill the punnet and create inner of our bugs. |
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| Snap the lid closed, secure with tape and decorate! |
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| We used sticker dots to decorate our bugs. Master E concentrating very hard! |
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| Miss A busy decorating her bug. |
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| Master T very proud of his finished Bug! |
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| Miss A hard at work. |
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| Miss O working hard! |
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| Love the concentration on Miss L's face as she decorates her bug. |
Enjoy x
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