Magic and Mayhem

Here’s the craft we came up with for Unplug Your Kids‘ Insect theme (see here for all our resources).  It was quite fun!

I printed out some of the basic insect info first, along with the handout about how different types of legs, mouths and such did different jobs.  We talked about what all insects had and things like exoskeletons and such.

We all cut out insect parts– long legs from sticky paper, big ovals and circles for heads and thoraxes and abdomens, little mouths of different shapes and even quilled paper tongues for the butterfly type tongue!

Then I gave each child a glue stick and they went to town.  They knew their insects needed to have one head, one thorax, one abdomen, two compound eyes (we used funny foam ones though!), antennae (generally), wings (optional but generally four) and a mouth.  They mixed, matched and created their own designer insect.  They could even say what their insects did by what parts they used.  Victoria’s had a chewing mouth while Jack’s had a poking one, for instance.

Voila!  Our insects…

Jack’s (The Mofeht or some such)…

Anna’s (sasenpyens perhaps?)…

and Victoria’s…

 It was lots of fun.  We learned a lot, the kids had a blast, and I’ve been asked to find yet another challenge for tomorrow.  Speaking of which, I have to take the pics for this challenge they did yesterday…