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Going Buggy!
Stories we shared:
The Very Busy Spider / Eric Carle
Step by Step / Diane Wolkstein
The Very Hungry Caterpillar / Eric Carle
Other books you may enjoy sharing:
Waiting for Wings / Lois Ehlert
Over in the Garden / Jennifer Ward
Ten Little Ladybugs / Melanie Gerth
The Very Lazy Ladybug / Isobel Finn
Itsy Bitsy Spider / Iza
Trapani Miss Spider’s Tea Pary / David
Kirk
Two Bad Ants / Chris Van Allsburg
Very Lonely Firefly / Eric Carle
The Bee Sneeze / Beverly
Keller
Fireflies / Julie Brinkloe
The Grouchy Ladybug / Eric
Carle The Very Quiet Cricket / Eric Carle
The Clumsy Click Beetle / Eric
Carle Crickwing / Janelle Cannon
The Rose in my Garden / Arnold Lobel
Amazing Anthony Ant / Lorna Philpot
Caterpillar and the Polliwog / Jack
Kent Butterfly Hunt / Yoshi
The Lamb and the Butterfly / Arnold
Sundgaard Butterfly / Mick Inkpen
Are You a Butterfly? / Judy
Allen Butterflies / Emily Neye
From Caterpillar to Butterfly / Deborah
Heiligman
Butterfly Alphabet Book / Brian Cassie
Butterfly Story / Anca Hariton
Butterfly and the bog beast / Nancy Krulik
Where Butterfiles Grow / Joanne
Ryder Butterfly House / Eve Bunting
Butterfly Count / Sneed
Collard Flutterby Fly / Steven Cosgrove
Price of the Butterflies / Bruce Coville
Clara Caterpillar / Pamela Edwards
The Things with wings / Gregory Holch
Gotta Go Gotta Go / Sam Swope
Caterpillar Caterpillar / Vivian
French Wings of Change / Franklin Hill
Songs and rhymes to share:
Eency Weency Spider
Spider on the Floor:
by
Raffi
Fiddle Dee Dee
From “Playtime Songs”
Beehive
Five Little Fireflies
(count on fingers)
Here is a beehive (make a
fist) One little firefly shines very bright
But where are the bees (shrug
shoulders) Two little fireflies show their lights
Hiding inside where nobody sees (point to
fist) Three little fireflies glimmer and glow
Soon they’ll come
out Four little fireflies
watch them go!
Of their
hive Five
little fireflies fly in the night
1,2,3,4,5 (open fingers one at a
time) Blink! Blink! Blink! Blink! (open and close fingers)
BUZZZZZZZ! (fly fingers and tickle a
friend!) My! What a sight!
1,2,3
Little Flea (crawl fingers up slowly
from toes)
1,2, 3
Creeping, creeping little flea, up my leg and past my knee
There’s a bug on me! (pretend to knock it
off) To my tummy, on he goes, past my chin and to my nose
Where did it go? (look
around) Now he’s creeping down my chin, to my tummy
once again
I don’t know! (shrug
shoulders) Down my leg, and pat my knee, to my
toe that little flea!
GOTCHA! (tickle toes)
The Grasshopper
There was a little grasshopper, always on
the jump (jump fingers forward)
He forgot to look ahead, and got a
nasty bump! (bump hand into opposite palm)
Flutter Flutter Butterfly ( fly around
like a butterfly)
Crawling Caterpillar
a fun tickle rhyme Flutter, flutter butterfly-
floating in the summer sky
“Who’s that climbing up my back?” said the
wall
Floating by for all to see- floating by so merrily
“It’s me!” said the caterpillar “I’m
learning to crawl!” Flutter, flutter butterfly- floating in the summer
sky
Five Little Butterflies
Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar
act out rhyme
from
Barney’s – “Run Jump Skip and Sing”
Fuzzy wuzzy caterpillar into a corner will creep
Five little butterflies
resting at the door, He’ll spin himself a blanket and
then fall fast asleep
Fuzzy wuzzy
caterpillar wakes up by and by
One flew away and then there were four.
Stretches out his lovely wings , now he’s a butterfly!
*Butterfly, Butterfly, happy
all day,
Butterfly, Butterfly, fly fly
away.
Four little butterflies
sitting in a tree, Arabella Miller
Sing to “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
One flew away and then
there were three* Little Arabella Miller
Three little butterflies
looking at you, Found a fuzzy caterpillar
(wiggle one finger)
One flew away and then there
were two* First it crawled upon her mother (tickle
mom)
Two little butterflies sitting
in the sun Then upon her baby brother
(tickle a friend)
One flew away and then there
was one* Everyone said “Arabella Miller
One little butterfly left all
alone, Take away that
caterpillar!” (shake finger)
One
flew away and then there were none*
Five Little Ladybugs
Five little ladybugs on our front door, (Hold up five fingers.)
One flew to Isaac, and that left four. (Hold up four fingers.)
Four little ladybugs, oh so wee,
One flew to Dad, and that left three. (Hold up three fingers.)
Three little ladybugs saying "howdy-do,"
One flew to Brian, and that left two. (Hold up two fingers.)
Two little ladybugs snoozing in the sun,
One flew to Sarah, and that left one. (Hold up one finger.)
One little ladybug alone on the door,
It flew to Mom, then there were no more. (Bend down last finger.)
*Substitute names of people in your family for
those in the rhyme.
Activities
to do at home:
Colorful
Butterflies:
Say the rhyme and color the butterflies 
The first to come to
the garden bed
Is a lovely butterfly
of brilliant RED
Then in comes another
and that makes two
Fly right in my
friend of BLUE
“The garden is fine,
the best I’ve seen”
Says the butterfly of
softest GREEN
Our garden needs a
sunny fellow
Fly in butterfly with
wings of YELLOW
Little friend of
PURPLE, fly in too
The garden is waiting
for a color like you
ORANGE, orange you’ve waited so long
Fly right in where
you belong
Butterflies,
butterflies, you’re such a sight
Flying together –
what a delight!
BUG ZOO
Let your children use their imaginations to create their own make-believe bugs.
Set out such materials as empty yogurt and mayo tubs, cardboard tubes, egg
cartons, pipe cleaners, yarn, pompoms, googly eyes, paper scraps, paint (mixed
with drops of liquid soap), and glue. Then invite the children to use the
materials to make "bugs." Display their creations together as a Bug Zoo.
BUG LOTTO
Purchase two identical sets of nine different bug stickers. For a gameboard,
divide a piece of poster board into nine squares and attach one bug sticker to
each square. For game cards, cut out nine identical squares of poster board and
attach the second set of bug stickers. To play, invite your children to take
turns placing the bug cards on top of the matching bug squares on the gameboard.
BUG SAFARI
Go with your children on a walk to search for bugs. Take along plastic
magnifying glasses and an instant camera. Have the children look for bugs under
leaves, small pieces of wood, or rocks, and encourage them to talk about any
bugs they find. Instead of bringing back the bugs, "capture" them by taking
instant photos to view and discuss when you return.
LADYBUG ART
Let your children
make ladybugs, using one of these ideas.
 Paint
walnut shell halves red. When dry, add spots with black markers.
Use
tempera to paint round, smooth rocks red. Allow to dry, then glue on dots
punched out of black paper for spots.
Brush
the backs of small paper plates with red paint. Use black markers to add spots
when the paint has dried.
LADYBUG FINGER PUPPETS
Give your children 1-inch paper ovals or circles. Let them decorate their ovals
with red and black markers to make ladybugs. Help them glue their ladybugs onto
paper strips cut to fit around a finger. When the glue has dried, fasten the
ends of each child's paper strip together to make a ring for wearing the ladybug
puppet.
LIVE
LADYBUGS
Ladybugs are prized by gardeners because they feed on unwanted insect pests,
such as aphids. The little bugs are so popular that people often buy them to set
free in their gardens. Ask at a local nursery if there is an outlet for ladybugs
in your area, or check online references for live ladybugs. Then purchase an
order of ladybugs for your family. When the bugs arrive, let the children help
set them free in your garden and observe what happens.
LADYBUG SNACKS Try one of these snack ideas with your
famlily
 Spread
red jam on biscuit rounds and top with raisin "spots."
Decorate
round cookies with red frosting. For spots, add chocolate chips.
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