Ladybug Crafts

Don’t miss our adorable FREE Ladybug Crafts packet (with a snack idea too)! 

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Ladybug Colors

Ladybugs are simple, fascinating creatures. Most of us know them as the small, rounded insect with a red body and black spots, but…that is only ONE of over 6,000 species of ladybugs, called ladybird beetles by scientists. 

Ladybugs come in many different colors: red, orange, yellow, and even blue, gray, or black! They may have lots of spots, a few spots, no spots, or even stripes. Look at the abundance of colors in these ladybug pictures!

To celebrate these beloved little creatures, here are a few simple ladybug crafts to make at home! 

Keep reading to find instructions for a tasty ladybug fruit snack recipe and a ladybug dot painting. A template for the dot painting is in our free printable PDF of ladybug crafts! 

In this download, you’ll also find instructions for a ladybug puppet, a preschool craft taken from Poetry Parties for Littles—Insects and Spiders. This book is one of many originals found in The Good and the Beautiful Library. 

Click the images to learn more!

Ladybug Fruit Snack

Ingredients:

• ½ apple
• ½ grape
• 6 raisins or chocolate chips
• 2 Tbsp peanut butter, cream cheese, or other spread
  

Adult (or older child with adult supervision):

Cut an apple in half, and then cut each half down the middle. Remove seeds. 

Cut a grape in half.

Instructions for child:

• Use a butter knife to smear the peanut butter (or other spread) between two apple quarters and set them together to form the ladybug’s body.
• Smear the spread onto the raisins or chocolate chips, and place them on the apple as the ladybug spots.
• Attach a ½ grape or blueberry for a head.
• Serve on a small plate and enjoy!

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Ladybug Dot Art Printable

Supplies:

• PDF printout
• Black dot marker or paint 
• Red dot marker or paint
  *A good alternative is black and red paint with cotton swabs.
• Optional: googly eyes and glue (or marker) for eyes 

Instructions for child:

• Use the dot markers to fill in the ladybug. 
• As an extra challenge, try to model your painting after a real ladybird beetle (aka ladybug). See the images earlier in the blog for ideas! 
• Add two eyes, two antennae, and six legs. Don’t forget to draw a line down the middle to show it has two wings.  

Be sure to download all these fun ladybug crafts in our free printable PDF! 

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