Try this cute LadyBug craft for preschoolers
As a parent, it is easy for us to want to step in and DO the craft for our child. So, I encourage you to show your child what to do, and then allow them to use child-safe scissors, paint and a non-toxic glue stick on their own!
These are important skills all good preschools, kindergartens and learning centres encourage children to do to help develop their cognitive skills.
You'll need:-
2 white paper plates
Red paint, Black paint
Scissors and a glue stick
Coloured construction paper for the head, spots and eyes; or use stick on eyes
3x black pipe cleaners (for legs)
Stapler
- Help your preschooler paint one paper plate red and the other black (allow time to dry)
- Cut the red paper plate in half
- Trace circles onto lightweight coloured paper and have your preschooler cut out the circles and glue onto the wings
- Punch three holes on either side of the black paper plate
- Thread black pipe cleaners through the back of the black paper plate (to form legs)
- Staple the red wings onto the black body (slightly overlapping at the top)
- Cut a crescent shape for head, from coloured card, paper or foam
- Glue the head shaped crescent onto the tip of the wings
- Glue eyes onto the head
