This year we will be participating in the Children's Museums Bug Festival! Kids love to draw bugs or insects of any kind so creating a fun project for all ages was easy. Along with lots of other wonderful activities, kids will make their very own bug jars. For those who won't be able to make it out to the festival, here's a similar project you can do at home!
Bug Jars!
Materials:
Practice Paper
Pencil
Bristol Paper
Oil Pastels
Blue and Green Acrylic Paint
Watered down Blue and Green Acrylic Paint
Brushes
Brown and Green Construction Paper
Scrap Craft Paper
Scissors
Glue
Step 1
Practice drawing bugs and jar. Then draw a big jar on bristol paper, making sure to fill up most of the page. You'll want a roomy home for your bugs to live in!
Step 2
Paint all around your jar with blue acrylic paint. Next using the green paint, add brushstrokes along the bottom of the page to create grass. Once dry (hair dryers help with drying time) paint inside the jar with watered down blue acrylic paint and along the bottom of the jar with watered down green acrylic paint. The watered down acrylic paint is lighter giving the jar a see through appearance.
Step 3
Next, use brown construction paper to create twigs for your bugs to crawl along and green construction paper to create leaves. Glue down and start drawing bugs inside your happy habitat!
Step 4
There's a couple of different ways to color in bugs once drawn. You can use oil pastels or create wings, etc. out of scrap craft paper, or a mixture of both. Either way works well and you're sure to love your little home for bugs!
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