I want to thank Lakeshore for partnering with me on this 8 Bug Activities For Kids post. All thoughts and opinions are 100% mine.
After being stuck inside during the long winter months, May is the perfect month to get the kids outside to explore and soak in the great outdoors. When planning activities for kids, I always find it helpful to come up with some kind of theme. May is a great month to discover, learn and create all things bug related.
8 Bug Activities For Kids:
Bug Fossils:
For this activity, you will need Play-Dough or clay and toy bugs. Have the kids roll out the dough and push the bugs into it to make fossils. If you use air-dry clay or oven-baked clay, you could have the kids paint them after they harden.
Butterfly Nursery:
We love these! We are anxiously waiting for our caterpillars to arrive so we can watch them transform and turn into beautiful butterflies. As a mom, I love activities like this because it teaches the kids so much, but yet, it is super fun for the kids to watch over an extended period of time.
Real Bugs Discovery Kit:
This kit was a huge hit for my kids. Lakeshore offers innovative educational products that get kids excited about learning. My kids spent a lot of time exploring the bugs and their names.
Then, we turned it into other games.
We did a bug hunt with the kit.
Then, we played a memory game to see how many bugs we could put back under the right name.
After that, we played a fact game. We read about each bug and tried to see how many facts we could remember about each bug.
Fingerprint Bugs:
Messy activities for kids are the most fun! Get the paint out and have the kids dip their fingers in it to make fingerprint bugs. I drew a Mason jar to put the bugs in.
No-Fail Froggy Catch:
Getting active is important and this No-Fail Froggy Catch was a perfect game to play with our bug theme. Lakeshore’s unique and exclusive products are all designed by teachers to make education part of children’s daily lives. My son loves playing all kinds of sports so this game was right up his alley. My daughter liked it because of the cute bugs she was throwing and catching. 😉
Painted Bug Rocks:
Bug Collage:
Fly Swatter Painting:
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I think I would use the gift card to get math workbooks
These bug activities are perfect for my preschool class! Thanks so much for all the ideas. They are much needed at the end of the school year!
Share giveaway with all my teacher friends!
A beanbag would be nice for the house
Magnetic Color Maze
I am a kid in a candy store looking at that site. There is a store nearby so I think I am going to have to head there soon. I do like the Sight Word Fishing Game among many other items.
Magic sand or a building kit like Zoob or Squibz….they look fun!
We are working on sight words, and I think the fishing for sight words game would be fun.
There are so many awesome things, but the first thing I would like to get is definitely the Catch & Release! Bug Vacuum! They have always wanted one and this would keep my kiddo’s busy this Summer for sure!
I’d get some of the composition books they carry because my kids are so into drawing and writing right now, these would be perfect for documenting our summer adventures!
It’s so important to teach littles about the natural world! I’d love to have just about anything related!
I would get the Farm Fresh Produce set!
I would get my nephew the I Can Drive! First Fire Truck
Oh I really love their Regular Dot Art Painters! Those look like so much fun!
I would definitely get some Summer Bridge Activities.
Plastic Aquarium x3
Playground Math – Geometry Problem Solving Kit
I would get the Don’t Let the Bugs Fall! Game for my 4 year old.
I would purchase the
Alphabet Feel & Find Sensory Tub
I’d love to get the alphabet stamp set and smelly markers
Christina anne
They have a ton of great stuff, but the WaterWay Pipe Builders set would be a ton of fun!
I would get the rainbow scratch paper
They have so much it’s hard to choose. I would probably get something to do outside.
I love the Shapes Discovery Boxes
Thank You for the chance
I would but the Toddle-Safe Food Basket – the little ones would love it!
Can Do! Science Discovery Kits – Pre K-Gr. 1 – Complete Set maybe put towards this.
I would like the Fishing for Sight-Words.
I would love to get a marble run
My kids would love the fishing site words game
I would get the Magic Sand. We are doing a luau for my daughter’s birthday party and the sand will come in handy!