Litter Bugs (For Earth Day)

It's important to teach our youngsters not to litter (and all about the Earth). This is a super fun way to teach them about the importance of keeping our Earth clean and letting them be creative little kiddos. The week before this project, I collect and clean an assortmant of "trash" from their lunches (like fruit cups, water bottles, disposable spoons, pasta cups etc) and allow them to choose something to be the base.

Materials:

• An assortmant of wiggle eyes (I like the giant bug eyes but use whatever you have)
• Clean Trash
• Hot glue gun with a low temp option (this way they won't get hurt)
• Assortment of collage materials (pipe cleaners, feathers, buttons, pom poms, rocks, shells, puzzle pieces, sequence, glitter, etc)

Directions:

• Allow your child to choose the base of her bug
• Ask her where she would like the eyes and how many... you should do the hot gluing of course.
• Have him show you where he would like each collage material

These Litter bugs are super cute and were a BIG hit in my class room!

This really looks like a Litter-pig!

Can you tell that she loves purple?

He kept calling this project a "glitter-bug" so I made sure he had some glitter for the top!

He grabbed this discarded tissue box out of our recycling bin and decided that this would be his litter bug.

Organic-bug!

I think we might need some pest control!

Happy Crafting!

M