Enjoy a range of ladybug or ladybird activities that explore flight, habitats, the colour red and black.
- Ladybug or ladybird poster - use to promote minibeasts in their natural environments and as a friend of flower lovers.
Ladybug playdough, posters and rhyme
Ladybug activity sheet
Ladybug outline template
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Activity ideas using England's EYFS
2012 Early Learning Areas and outcomes
PSED Personal Social & Emotional Development
Throughout interest led, themed and focus activites encourage team work, joint participation, cooperation, sharing, negotiation, compromise, understanding & patience.
An interactive book where the ladybug can be removed from the front pocket of the book and moved independantly through slits positioned on each page.
A nice title to introduce or support transitional events and the routines that happen daily in chilren's lives. There's also a great accompanying book available -
Honeybee's Busy day
CL Communication and language
Conversation openers
-- who's seen ladybugs and where?
-- what colour can ladybugs be?
-- what shape and how many ladybug spots could they have?
More minibeast book titles
PD
Physical Development
Gross motor activity
Flying ladybird capes !!
Make capes to enable role play and who body movement that flie, lands, perches and follows
Resources:
-- red fabric circles - use a circular dustbin lid as a size guide
-- adhesive hook and loop tape
Make your capes from material and attach hook and loop sections to secure.
Literacy
Introduce red, black, ladybug or ladybird to your existing literacy programme
Alphabet letter mats for dough and tracing
Math
Cut, count, group and colour a variety of spots on ladybug wings
Play ladybird bingo & lotto type games with childrens own work products or commercial resources
Ladybug math game on amazon.co.uk
Understanding the world
Ladybird lifecycle figures
Become ladybird spotters -
ladybird-survey.org.uk - about
harlequins
Ladybird larvae and guides available through Amazon -
Ladybird larvae
This is an affiliate link
Ladybird storybook
am I really different explores difference, similarity and community.
Add a
ladybug themed remote control to your directional toys
Art and design
Textured ladybug collage
Use paper plates to explore red paint, blending and pattern techniques: add sand, glitter or sawdust to the paint and see how it spreads.
Use black paper circles where wanted to turn the textured plates into ladybirds !
Rhyme, rhythm and song:
Five Red ladybirds or /ladybugs
(Sung to tradition currant bun tune)
Quote:
Five red ladybugs sitting on the ground
Eating their greens and NOT looking around !!
Along came xx with a magnifying glass
Crept up quietly to watch ladybugs in the grass!
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Enable ownership of this rhyme by using children's own ladybug models as the focus. Place them all together on a grass green sheet and recite the rhyme together. At the 'along came' cue invite a volunteer to visit and 'watch' and at the end of the rhyme ask if the ladybug will stay to finish their meal or wants to go back with the child.
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