Ladybirds or ladybug activities
 

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

:ladybug: PSED Personal Social & Emotional Development
:shootings 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

:ladybug: CL Communication and language

:shootings Conversation openers
-- who's seen ladybugs and where?
-- what colour can ladybugs be?
-- what shape and how many ladybug spots could they have?

:shootings More minibeast book titles


:ladybug: PD
Physical Development

Gross motor activity
:shootings 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.




:ladybug: Literacy
:shootings Introduce red, black, ladybug or ladybird to your existing literacy programme
:shootings Alphabet letter mats for dough and tracing


:ladybug: Math

:shootings Cut, count, group and colour a variety of spots on ladybug wings
:shootings Play ladybird bingo & lotto type games with childrens own work products or commercial resources
Ladybug math game on amazon.co.uk


:ladybug: Understanding the world

:shootings Ladybird lifecycle figures

:shootings 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

:ladybug: Art and design

:shootings 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 !

:shootings Rhyme, rhythm and song:
Five Red ladybirds or /ladybugs
(Sung to tradition currant bun tune)

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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