Category: Games

Lady Bug Adventure Game

10/24/2013

Materials needed: Construction paper of many colors, scissors, glue, stickers, pipe cleaners, wiggly eyes.

Game pieces: Fold a pipe cleaner in half. Wind the pipe cleaner in a coil with the open points out. Curl the end up like antennae. Glue wiggly eyes.

Instructions: Cut out circles, squares, triangles and octagons. Index cards cut in two, colored markers, laminate or contact paper.

Cut out several small shapes in different colors. Apply a shape of each color on ½ of an index card. Label the card in the correct color with the color, and shape.

Put bug stickers on 4 cards.

Arrange the other shapes in a wiggly line on a blank piece of construction paper.

To Play: Set the cards upside down next to the game board. Have the child choose a card, read the card together. Play by color or shape. Child moves bug game piece to chosen color and shape.

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Lady Bug Letter Match

10/24/2013

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A Lady Bug literacy activity which includes letter match, and writing letters.

Read: “Five Little Ladybugs” by Melanie Gerth and Laura Huliska-Beith

Rhyme: Two Little Lady Bugs Flying To and Fro.

Materials needed: 4 pieces of construction paper: yellow, black, red, orange; word cards, letter cards, pencils, small lady bug pictures or stickers; scissors, glue.

Word Cards: Create a word card for each color of Lady Bug and attach to the corresponding piece of construction paper.

Letter cards: Using index cards, glue picture or affix sticker on one side. On the other side write a letter. Do as many letters as you need to spell out the words on the word cards.

Letter Activity: Set out the letter cards next to the word card sheet. This activity can be done two ways.

1. Set all letter cards with Lady Bug Picture up. Have the children take turns picking a letter, and comparing it to the word card. Then placing the letter underneath the word card if it is there.

2. Set all the letter cards with the Lady Bug down. With the letters showing and let the children spell out the words on the word cards.

Extension: Give the children index cards and pencils. Let them write out the word card and place on the sheet.

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Lady Bug Math and Logic Game

10/23/2013

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Lady Bug, Lady Bug fly away home. Some ladybugs are black with red spots; some are yellow, orange, pink, and red. Here is a fun Lady Bug logic game that you can make with the children!

Matching Lady Bug Game: Math/logic Children will make their own Lady Bug matching game. This is a teacher directed activity.

Materials needed: colored paper: (yellow, orange, pink, red, and black), glue, small white circle stickers. (Or you could use jewel stickers), wiggly eyes.

Instructions: Cut out several pairs of circles of all the colors about the size of a coffee cup. Make a smaller set out of red paper about the size of a juice glass. Cut strips of white stickers. One pair of stickers would have 1 sticker, another 2 stickers, and 3 stickers and so on. Back each bug with a solid color.

Give each child a pair of large circles, two smaller red circles, and two identical strips of white stickers. Let the children construct their two lady bugs. You will need at least 5 sets of similar Lady Bug cards to play the game. You might want to make some extras just in case.

Extension Activity: Now that you have a set of cards, you could use them for a math activity. Separate the cards into two piles. Purchase little Lady Bug manipulates or toys. One child draws a card and counts out the number listed on the card.

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