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Today I'm sharing over 20 bug crafts for kids! Whether y'all love'em or hate'em in real life, insect crafts are LOTS of fun. They are a smashing way to help kids learn and appreciate our six-legged friends.

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At that place is no shortage of bugs where nosotros live. I detect them super-interesting to examine up close, but the manner they crawl and fly around has been known to cause a pocket-sized freak-out (on the odd occasion simply, hah!).

When it comes to kids, I'chiliad convinced that the more they observe and acquire about minibeasts, the less they will exist afraid of them.

If we detect an unusual-looking insect in our house or garden I encourage my girls to grab it in their bug catcher for a closer look. Occasionally nosotros set upwards an insect habitat and and notice the bug for a few days before releasing it back into the garden. We research the insect to uncover some interesting facts most it and sometimes design a problems craft based around information technology.

I'thou hoping that taking steps like these to appreciate the beauty and complexity of nature volition assistance my kids to abound into the type of adults who DON'T freak out at the sight of a bug. I'one thousand picturing them condign one of those admirable individuals who can calmly catch a big, hairy spider in a container and gently place it outside (hey, there'due south always hope!).

Living in Australia, at that place will be enough of opportunity to practice that skill.

Allow's motion onto some of our favourite insect and problems crafts …

Over 20 bug crafts for kids

• Impress and blueprint a doodlebug-on-a-foliage using our template which has been based on a generic garden bug
• Use a traditional printing technique to create butterfly paintings based on the monarch and blue morph butterfly species
• These printable cube bugs come in both colour-y'all-own and full colour (they were inspired by my girl'due south obsession with a certain figurer game)

• Use our printable template plus an easy squish fine art technique to make these colourful dragonflies
• This realistic-looking 3D dragonfly is similar a papercraft version of taxidermy
• Create a light-upwards firefly twilight scene using an upcycled cereal box

• While technically it's an arachnid—not an insect—these 3D paper spiders come close enough for me
• Upcycle a paper roll into a light-up firefly—then fun!
• These butterfly headbands are so easy to brand (we used them as a political party craft for my daughter'due south butterfly party)

• Make a unproblematic peg bee using sharpies and our complimentary printable wings
• Hither is a super-cute paper plate rocking bee with handprint-shaped wings
• We as well have a peg dragonfly craft with costless printable wings

• Make a paper roll love bug — this craft is perfect for preschoolers
• Utilize walnut vanquish halves to create some ambrosial painted walnut bugs
• This paper whorl grasshopper is based on our observations of a real grasshopper we establish in the business firm

• Turn a kitchen sponge into a sparkly butterfly fridge magnet
• These pebble and felt dearest bugs brand sugariness paw made gifts
• Glitter peg collywobbles are a fun and easy idea for younger kids

• This is an easy DIY butterfly barbie costume kids tin make for barbie dolls (or teddies). My girl had so much fun making these!
• Contributor Shannon from Oh Creative Day created these Eric Carle-inspired paper plate butterflies
  
• Woven arts and crafts stick collywobbles are one of our nigh popular crafts

• Some people are grossed out past cicada shells, but my kids accept always collected them (as did I equally a kid!). Here nosotros show you how to turn them into corking neon cicada shells
• Create garden fine art using leaves, petals, sticks and flowers collected from your garden. Adjust them in shapes and patterns, like the butterfly we have made.
• Create a DIY nature craft construction kit using items collected from nature. Bugs and collywobbles are but a few of the things you could make!
• Utilize paint or blast varnish to create pebble bugs from minor rocks

• Utilise our printable template to create symmetrical butterfly squish art
• Take hold of a kitchen sponge and make some butterfly prints
• Employ chalk and nature to brand bugs on the sidewalk

What's your favourite bug? Allow us know in the comments and nosotros'll put it on our time to come insect craft list.

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