Crawling Creatures: Insects, Bugs, Spiders, Worms,
Arachnids, & More Theme
Pratt's
Educational Resources & Online Store
Arachnids
Theme
(Spiders, ticks, etc.)
Ants
Bees Ladybugs
Butterfly
&
Caterpillar
Bugs
& Insects Word Search Puzzle
The Bugs & Insects section has other
links not listed in the other categories on this page.
Insect/Bug Books
Search
for Insect/Bug/Creepy Crawlies, etc. Books at Amazon.com
Over in the Garden is a song about
10 insects.
Games & Flash Cards
Bug-Go
(Bingo) @KY
It also has Insect Line Drawings" that can be used for
"Overhead Transparencies or Flash Cards" of 34 insects.
Ants
Bees
Beetle
Bettle Books
Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle
US EPA - Endangered Species
Picture Book: Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle
Valley
Elderberry Longhorn Beetle @ LAcoast
Bugs & Insects
My Pages
Pratt's
Bird, Bee, and Butterfly Lesson Plan
Puppet Theme
Insect/Bug Books
Search
for Insect, Bug, or other Books at Amazon.com
Information & Photos
eNature.com There
are large pictures of butterflies, insects, and spiders. At
this site teachers can create a classroom species, there are ecards,
newsletters and more for free membership.
Entomology
(The Study of Insects) for Beginners
Go over the different body parts of the insect, the development from
egg to
adult, and view online the stages that a caterpillar becomes a
butterfly
or moth.
Koday's
Kids Amazing Insects
Insectclopedia Research Portal
Let's Talk
About Insects Including a teacher's guide. In English &
Spanish.
Minnesota
Department of Agriculture: IMP Publicatons
Download various fact sheets (insects, weeds, plant disease, rodents,
pesticides, ABackyard Activity Book for Kids (in separate pdf files),
and "Thicket! (articles, links, etc.).
MPCA:
Creature of
the Month - Insects & Bugs
The Yuckiest Site of the Internet
Roaches, Worms, and Yucky Fun & Games
Activities, Lesson Plans, Links,
Printables, Units, etc.
Collaborative
Thematic Unit on Insects - ants, bees, butterflies, caterpillars and
ladybugs
Cyberkids:
Insect Links & Lesson Plans on Insects
Discover
Entomology at Texas
A & M University Links, Lesson Plans
(Ages 3 through 18), and More.
Insected.Arizona:
Using Live Insects in the Elementary Classroom Lesson Plans, Information Sheets, and Rearing Sheets.
Insects
of IL = "What Good Is An Insect?"
Including activities you can do at home (and crafts),
"Just For Fun! poems ("A Dragonfly", "Firefly", and "Song
Of The Bugs"; jokes and riddles, and definitions and a labeled insect
under "What Is An Insect".
Printables: word search, crossword puzzles, and
unscramble.
Facts (and small images to color) about different the
dragonfly, firefly, grasshoper, honey bee, ladybug, mosquito, praying
mantis, and water strider.
Insects
Unit For Teachers - Links to printables, lessons, ideas, books, and
more! @ Teaching Heart
Minnetonka
Grades K through 5 Lesson Plans
O. Orkin
Insect
Zoo: Let Arthropods Bring Science into the Classroom: Activities It
includes
worksheets and handouts in the activities.
Pudder
Activity Guide Fall 2000: Leaf Bug Hunt
SBCSS
has more books, arts, snacks, and more on insects.
Songs4Teachers.com
has
songs, poems, activities, word searches, etc. at their web site.
Crafts
Craft
Project
Index & free craft patterns - Bug Crafts @ Danielle's
Place Bee, beehive, spider, ladybug, ant, dragon fly, walking
stick,
praying mantis, mosquito, and butterflies. Many of these have
patterns to go with it.
Nursery Rhymes
Preschool
Nursery Rhymes About Insects and Bugs
Snacks
Preschooleducation.com -
Bug Snacks (Click on "Snacks" and then "Bugs".)
Misc. Links
Biodiversity
Counts: Resources Including keys (with diagrams of arthropods:
insects, arachnids, and crustaceans).
Insect Safari
For kids: insect id guide (including non-insects), coloring
pages,
coloring online, and a game. For educators: lesson plans and
Safari Booklet (including activities and games).
Iowa
State Entomology Index: K-12 Educators' Recommended Sites
Katerpillars
(& Mystery Bugs) @ UKY
Coloring Pages & Printables
A Child's
Place - Insects Activities and printables.
About.com:
Bug Crafts Make crafts related to ants, butterflies, bees,
ladybugs, spiders, flies, and other bugs.
abcteach:
Insect Theme Unit Including shape books, coloring pages,
worksheets, songs, and more.
AFUNK: Coloring World:
Insects Ants, Bees, Butterfly, Dragonfly, Fly, Ladybug, Spider,
Snail, and Worm.
Animal
ColoringTransporter: Arthropods
Arthropod
Coloring and Facts
Arthur's
B&W Insect Clip Art Coloring pages.
Bry-Back
Manor Activity Pages Lots of different pages here!
Bry-Back Manor
Bug Clipart
Christine's
Wacky Art Ideas for Insects
Coloring
Pages to Print and Color @ KinderArt: Insects
EnchantedLearning.com
- Insect Coloring Book
Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commision Animated Animals Coloring Book
(A-Z) Grasshopper, ichneumon wasp, ladybug, underwing (moth),
and zebra swallowtail (butterfly).
I
Can Show Love for Animals, Primary 2, Lesson 44 @ lds.org Butterfly
and grasshopper.
I Know
My Backyard Coloring Book Monarch, Praying Mantis,
Fritillary, Ladybug,
Red Admiral, Cricket, Rearl Crescent, Walking Stick, Tiger Swallowtail,
and Grasshopper
Indian River Lagoon
Coloring Book - The Aquatic Preserves Are Exceptional
Little People
Coloring Pages Butterfly, ladybug, bee, and funny insects.
Moby's
Mobiles: Insect Printable Butterfly, dragonfly, and ladybug.
O. Orkin Insect Zoo:
The Teacher Resource Page (and students)
Preschool
Coloring Pages @ Everything Preschool
University
of Kentucky Department of Entomology: Katerpillars (& Mystery Bugs)
Western
Exterminator Company: Fun Stuff Coloring Book - Insects
Cicada
Crayola
Activity Book: Cicada
You need to become a member to view the printout.
Cricket
Books
I Know My
Backyard
Coloring Book - Cricket
Firefly
Firefly
or Lightning Bug Printout @ Enchanted Learning
Fly Theme
Books
Preschool
Printables: Felt Board Story: I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A
Fly
The Little Old
Lady Who Swallowed A Fly @ Bry-Back Manor
A printout of the song/story and animals to go with it. Place the
animals on craft sticks to make puppets to tell the story or sing the
song: Old
Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.
Coloring Pages and Crafts
House
Fly Facts and a small image you can color
Westernexterminator.com
Fly
Mask Craft: Familycrafts.about.com
Rhymes:
Enchanted
Learning - Fiddle dee dee and Printout
to Color
Enchanted
Learning - There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
Music:
You can use the craft while the children sing the song.
Kids
Songs:
Shoo Fly
- Don't Bother Me
Shoo Fly
@ niehs
Shoo Fly:
Kosherconnection.com (words) You need to click on "control" and the
square button or go to: midi.
Grasshopper
Grasshopper
Ladybug
Theme
Mosquito
Connecticut
Wildlife Division Kids Page: Mosquito and Facts
Red
Admiral
Inchworm / Measuring Worm / Looper
Photos
Inchworms @
Internet Brothers
Inchworm
Photo @ geometer
Poem: The
Inchworm
Books
Search
for Inchworm Books at Amazon.com
Physical Education
Inchworm Crawl: Crawl like an inchworm.
Music
Inch by Inch
Copyright © 2003 Barbara Pratt. All rights reserved.
Tune of: Frere
Jacques (Are you Sleeping)
Inch by in-ch, inch by in-ch,
me-a-sure, me-a-sure.
Measure everythi-ng,
Measure everythi-ng,
That you see, that you see.
Inchworm
@
NIEHS
Math Activities
Measuring:
Talk about what an inch is. Measure using a ruler.
You can measure different objects using paper
clips, books, or whatever else you have in your house or classroom.
Snacks
See worm.
Inchworm
Salad @ Danielle's Place
Activities and Crafts
Albert
Inchworm Mathematics Activity: How Big is a Hand?
Butterfly,
caterpillar, and inchworm crafts @ Danielle's Place
Inchworm
Bookmark: Family.disney.go.com
Inchworm
Craft: Sesamestreet.org
Inchworm or Worm Pom-Pom Craft
Glue various pom-poms together. Cut some pieces of felt out for
the eyes, nose, and mouth.
For the inchworm, you can use green or brown pom-poms or
any color.
Wasp
Wasp
@ FindSounds.com
Images & Photos: Field Guide:
Digger wasp
Yellow Jacket
Coloring
Yellow Jacket and Yellow
Jacket Facts and the sound of a yellow jacket.
Other Y Resources
Yellow Yacht Coloring
Page for Alphabet Letter Y
Invertebrates
Annelid Worms
Annelid means ringed.
Bloodworm
Images & Photos: Field Guide:
Blood worm (red)
Earthworms
Leeches
Worm
Search
for Worm Books at Amazon.com
Song
The Worm Went Through the Apple
Copyright © 2002 Barbara Pratt. All rights reserved.
Tune of: "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"
To hear the tune, click here.
Have one child or adult be a worm and the other be an apple.
Have the worm go through the apple (between the legs).
The worm went through the apple, the worm went through the apple.
The worm went through the apple, to see what he could see.
And all that he could see, and all that he could see
Was the other side of the apple, the other side of the apple
The other side of the apple, was all that he could see.
Song
The Worm Went Through the Garden
Copyright © 2003 Barbara Pratt. All rights reserved.
Tune of: "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"
To hear the tune, click here.
Be a worm and pretend to crawl through the garden.
The worm went through the garden, the worm went through the garden.
The worm went through the garden, to see what he could see.
And all that he could see, and all that he could see
Was so many yummy vegetables, so many yummy vegetables,
so many yummy vegetables, was all that he could see.
Images & Photos: Google Images:
Worms
Cooking and Snacks:
Wormy Chocolate Pudding Take chocolate pudding (this will
resemble dirt), and place gummy worms in the pudding. Eat.
Worm Dig
Place one or more gummy worm(s) in a cup. Add rocks or dirt
(chocolate cereal or pudding) to it. Eat with a spoon.
Make Dirt
Cups: Kraftfoods.com.
Music
The Littlest
Worm (Echo Song) @ NIEHS
NIEHS Kids Page:
Vermicomposting (Making Good Use of Garbage!) Worm facts,
build a worm wigwam (and pictures), and "Feed the Worms" game.
Misc. Links
The Adventures
of Herman Including teaching activities and a free poster. (In
English and Spanish.)
Copyright © 2001-2006 Barbara Pratt. All rights reserved.
