Free Bugs and Garden Friends Crafts for Kids

Most kids love bugs. I can’t tell you how many live worms and bugs I have been, um, (clears my throat), gifted over the years. This was one of the inspirations for our bugs and garden friends theme on our site. To have paper bugs gifted instead of living ones. Today we will share a few of our favorites. For more please visit our entire bugs and garden friends theme HERE.

Spring just seemed like a good time of year to have a newsletter about a few of our favorite bug crafts. This first craft we are sharing is a giant Amazon butterfly. When this project is fully assembled it measures almost two feet across. While the real Amazon butterfly is much smaller little artists will love making huge projects.

Amazon Butterfly Craft

This next project is a great one to get your little artists using their imagination. They can tell a story about this bug craft. We have fun letting kids cut out pictures of food to feed his or her ladybug. I love to ask, ‘what’s your ladybug’s favorite food?’ You are sure to love the stories about why the ladybug eats some of these foods.

Ladybug Lunch Craft

 In our final project for today, we are making a praying mantis. This craft is a great combination of scissor, folding, and gluing skills. If you have a smaller artist you can help by pre-cutting all the pieces and have them fold and glue together. This is another giant bug when completed. Kids will feel like they are living a bug’s life.

Praying Mantis Craft

What would a newsletter full of bugs be without some real bugs? Some kids just love anything creepy crawly. Maybe you even have a future Entomologists on your hands. This can be a fun gift for kids to explore and learn about real bugs.

Bug Kit

Hope you had fun learning a few different ways to make our bugs and garden friends crafts today. We hope you will always tell your little bug, ‘You’re so creative!’