Bug and Insect Theme

Your students will love these bug theme activities. These fun and hands-on activities will be a great addition to your bug or insect unit.

Bugs and Spring Activities

Get out your balance scale or bucket scale! Here are lots of spring and summer-themed material ideas that you can use in your weighing station. Create a weight station in your math center, science center, or STEM center. Find lots of material ideas and printables to create your own measurement learning center in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. Perfect for Easter theme, garden theme, bug theme, weather theme, ocean theme etc. Your kids will love this hands-on math activity.

Flyswatter Painting

A flyswatter plus paint equals easy art for preschoolers. Your kids will love painting with these non-traditional paint brushes on this fun process art project. Perfect for an insect theme, bugs theme, and summer theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I love using the open-ended art project as a fun and simple way to explore mixing colors. #processart #preschoolart #openendedart

Insect Activities

Find lots of fun insect activities & ideas for your preschool and pre-k classroom. These activities are perfect for your insects & bugs theme, Spring theme, or outdoor theme units and lesson plans. From lady bugs to the Very Hungry Caterpillar you will find science, circle time, gross motor, sensory bins, dramatic play, literacy activities, math activities and craft ideas featuring insects and bugs. Kids will have so much fun learn about insects and their life cycles. #preschool

The Best Bug Books

Here are some of the best bug and insect books for your kids. Your kids will love these selections. Use them in your class library, in your science area or at circle time. Butterflies, bees, caterpillars, beetles, ladybugs, and more. These books are a great addition to your bugs and insects theme, butterfly theme, outdoor theme, or camping theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool and pre-k classroom. Learn fun facts about insects, life cycles and honey bees. #preschool #prek

Insect Themed Dramatic Play

Find ideas to create an entomology lab dramatic play area set up. Your kids will love playing and learning in an insect research lab dramatic play center. Perfect for your insects and bugs theme, spring theme, summer theme, or outdoor themes in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Many ideas for fun, hands-on learning activities and printables are included...perfect for early childhood play-based learning. Math, science, literacy, STEM, and STEAM in one play center. #dramaticplay #preschool

Butterfly Playdough Activity

Here are lots of ideas to create a fun and engaging butterfly themed playdough tray for your kids. They will not be able to resist this invitation to play. Perfect for your butterfly theme, spring theme, Very Hungry Caterpillar theme, or bugs and insect theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool classroom. Great for play-based and hands-on learning and fine motor skills practice. Lots of ideas for additional materials. #playdough #preschool #invitationtoplay

Bug Themed Playdough Activity

Create a bug themed playdough invitation to play with these material ideas. Your kids will have a blast with this activity. It's perfect for your bugs and insects theme, camping theme, outdoor theme, spring theme, summer theme units and lesson plans in a preschool or pre-k classroom. Kids can make bugs, create insect habitats. There are also ideas to add math and literacy learning activities to this play based learning center. Add ladybugs, spiders, bees, etc. #preschool #playdough

Caterpillar Patterns

This cute caterpillar pattern activity combines fine motor skills, math, and craft. Your kids will enjoy creating patterns and counting as they make caterpillars. This is a great patterning activity for your bugs & insects theme, butterfly & caterpillar theme, or spring theme units and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Works well when studying caterpillar life cycles and it's a perfect addition to a study of the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. #preschoolactivities

Butterfly Symmetry

Use this fun butterfly activity to introduce symmetry and mirror image to your kids. Decorate the free printable butterfly and use a mirror to help kids see the symmetry. This is a great math activity for your butterfly theme, bugs and insects theme, spring theme unit or lesson plans. A great STEAM activity and addition to a study of Eric Carle or butterfly life cycles. A fun art project...and you won't need coffee filters or pipe cleaners. #preschoolactivities #butterflyactivities

Spider Web Activities

Here are some great spider activities for preschoolers. Ideas include fine motor, counting, process art activities that are perfect for your Halloween theme or spider theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Your kids will love these awesome crafts and art made from spiderwebs. Keep those little hands busy...there are fine motor spider activities too. Lots of ideas for projects for kids. #preschool #Halloweenactivities #spideractivities #spidertheme #prek

Spider Activities

Check out these fun spider activities for your preschool and pre-k classroom. These are perfect if you are teaching spider theme, Halloween theme, or October unit and lesson plans. You will find simple ideas for spider learning activities like math, alphabet, and name activities. Plus you will find free printables....spider emergent reader. Spidery hands-on learning fun for your kids. #preschool #spideractivities #earlylearningideas #Halloweenactivities

Bug and Insect Activities in the Store

Find these fun, hands-on bug and insect theme resources in the Early Learning Ideas store.