Celebrate the arrival of spring or fall with this cute bug theme filled with a weeks worth of educatioanl bug activities for kids! This insect theme preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students has lots of preschool insect theme printables plus bug math activities, insect alphabet activities, and so much more!
Bug Theme
Bug theme preschool
You will find learning activities below the use the following “bugs” – flea, caterpillar, ladybug, bee, dragonfly, bee, ant, cricket, spider, roly polys, and more! Don’t forget to check out these fun bug activities to complete each day starting with this free backyard critters themed worksheets!
Free printable bug activities
Help kids practice alphabet letters, beginning sounds,and other early literacy skills with these fun, free printable activities.
- Improve your children’s fine motor skills with this fun snail sticker craft!
- Bee Themed Preschool Alphabet Matching Game
- Printable Caterpillar Letter Sounds Matching Activity
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Storybook Activity
- Printable Bug Themed Prewriting Practice
- Hive Movable Alphabet
- Montessori Insect 3 Part Cards
- I Is for Insect Colouring Pages
- Preschool Do a Dot Printables: Bugs
- Bugs Sight Words Reader
Bug Math Activities
Practice measuring bugs or choose a different math activity!
- 8 Preschool and Kindergarten Honey Bee Math Activities
- Caterpillar Egg Counting Mats
- Bug Jar Counting Game for Kids
- Counting Butterflies Roll and Cover Preschool Math Game
- Insects I SPY and Graph Free Printable
- Insects and Spiders-Counting and Math Song
- Ladybug Chant and Math Game
- Honey Bee Teen Board
- Bee Math
- How Many Insects in the Jar Spring Counting Activity
- Ladybug Playdoh Math Counting Mats
- Insect Counting Mats
- Line of Symmetry Butterfly Craft
- Catch 20 Bugs (Free Counting Game)
- Free Count to 10 Bugs Coloring Book
Teach your older kids about symmetry by drawing the missing half of an insect!
Bug Art for Kids
Looking for some creative bug art preschool ideas? Check out these fun crafts for kids!
- Make walnut bugs with your kids!
- Bug Play Dough Invitation
- Cardboard Tube Bee Craft for Kids Using Yarn
- Egg Carton Bee Craft for Kids
- Simple Bumble Bee Art Project for Kids
- Egg Carton Ladybug Craft for Kids
- Paper Towel Roll Firefly Craft for Kids
- Clothes Pin Butterfly Magnet Craft for Kids
- Mega Adorable Ladybug Finger Puppet
- Butterfly Printing with Sponges
- Needle Felt Spider Craft
- Garden Butterfly Craft
- Cute Ant Craft
- Toilet Paper Roll Mini Beast Craft
- Toilet Paper Roll Dragonfly
- Bottle Top Bugs and Mini Beasts
- Easy Lady Bird Stones
- Pool Noodle Crafts for Kids: Caterpillar
- Butterfly Yarn Activity
- Simple and Cute Glowing Firefly Craft
- Fingerprint Bug Jar Craft
- Clothespin Dragonfly Craft
- Dragonfly Craft for Kids
- Insect Crafts for Kids
- Bug Crafts for Kids
- Sponge Stamped Ladybugs
- Button Ladybugs DIY Learning Resource for Early Years
- 8 Insect Crafts for Kids
- How to Make Pine Cone Fireflies
- How to Make a Paper Plate Ladybug
- How to make an Easy and Fun Caterpillar Craft
- Paper Bowl Ladybug Craft
- Paper Bag Lightning Bug Kids Craft
- Beaded Dragonfly and Lightning Bugs
- How to Make a 3D Paper Butterfly Craft
- How to Make a Gorgeous Butterfly Craft
- How to Draw a Bee – Cute – Step by Step Tutorial
- How to Draw a Ladybug
- Bee Finger Puppet Craft
Challenge your older kids with this cardboard tube grasshopper recycling craft!
Bug Science Experiments
Learn about the life cycle of a ladybug with these fascinating worksheets!
- Edible Butterfly Life Cycle Science Activity for Biology
- How to Make a Roly Poly Habitat with Kids
- Insect Investigations: Summertime Citizen Science
- The Great Backyard Butterfly Experiment
- Communicate Like a Bee: Code a Message in Dance
- Bug Hunt: Outdoor Activities for Kids
- Create a Cricket Habitat and Do a Fun Science Experiment
- Ladybug Life Cycle Song
- Honey Bee Life Cycle 3-Part Cards
- Butterfly Life Cycle Learning Pack
- Caterpillar Butterfly Life Cycle Activity
- Butterfly Food Sensory Challenge
- How to Do a Small Animal Nature Study
- Minibeast Safari – Pitfall Traps
- Roly Poly Adventures: Science Experiments with Pill Bugs
- Exploring Bugs with a White Sheet
- Macroinvertebrates for kids: exploring waterbugs
- 8 Simple Science Experiments with Bugs
- Bug Unit #1 – Ants
- Bug Unit #2 – Spiders
Don’t forget to make a lightning bug paper circuit card with your older kids!
Bug Social Studies and Fun!
Entertain your kids with a bug sensory bin for kids!
- 5 Hands-on Ways to Celebrate Learn About Butterflies Day
- Bug Sensory Bin
- Insect and Bugs Sensory Bin
- Save your kids’ footprints with this adorable ladybug and bee footprint craft
- Garden Bug Themed Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe
- Fun and Healthy Apple Bugs Snack Tutorial
- Preschool Ladybug and Insect Activities for Spring
- Teaching Buttoning Skills with Button Bugs
- Bug Action Movement Cards
- Insect Sensory Bin
- Ladybug Teacher Thank You Card
- Strawberry Ladybugs
- 10 Kids Apps About Bugs
- How to Set Up a Simple Bug Discovery Sensory Bin
- Printable Bug Puppets
- Swat the Bug Learning Activity
- Fine Motor Bug Activity for Preschoolers
Bug Books to Read
Choose between these two options for using books in your unit study about flowers:
- Read a different book each day of the week, Monday through Friday.
- Read your favorite book (s) every day of the week. Keep in mind that kids love repetition, so they won’t get bored!
Insect activities for preschoolers
If are looking for more bug activities for preschoolers, toddlers, and kindergartners – including lots of free insect printables, you will love these FREE resources:
- Peek-a-Bug Insect Alphabet Printable – four abc games to help kids learn their ABCs, match upper and lowercase letters, and more!
- Ladybug Ladybug Activities for Preschoolers activity for pre-k and kindergarten
- Bug Free printable sight word games is a simple-to-play way to practice sight words with preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students
- I is for Inchworm insect activities including a worm observation book
- Stamped Potato Bee Craft for spring
- Cute Spider Name Craft
- Firefly Preschool Counting Worksheets
- Gummy Worm Edible Slime
- Fun, hands-on Spiders Activities for Preschoolers Activities
- Quick-and-Easy Spider Slime
- All About Earthworm Life Cycle Worksheets
- Insect Printables for Preschoolers 1-10 Coloring Book for preschoolers
- Ladybug Life Cycle Worksheet Pages
- Bug color by blend worksheet – Coloring by Blends
Bug Printables
- Free printable Life Cycle of a Spider for Kids worksheets
- Ladybug Life cycle for Kids worksheets
- Life Cycle of a Mosquito Printables
- Free Bee Counting Game
- Lots of fun, hands-on learning ideas in this Free Insect Activities for Preschoolers
- Bee and Insect Theme Preschool
- SUPER cute Spider math activities for preschoolers with Playdough Mats
- Fun, Insect Telling Time Puzzles
- Catch 20 Bug Counting Activity for Pre-k and Kindergarten
- Ladybug Addition Math Game for Kindergartners and Grade 1 students
- Bug free printable sight word books pdf – children will cut and paste sentences, color the insect coloring pages, and practice reading sight words
- Free Printable, Simple Bug Coloring Pages for kids
- Shape Spider Worksheets Preschool and Kindergarten
- Insect Worksheets to learn about lots of different bugs in our world
- Practice Letters A-Z with these Free Insect Printables
Insect Printables for Kids
- Learn all about ants with these creative ant activities for preschoolers
- Bug Math Worksheets for pre-k and kindergarten students
- Cute Bug Counting Bugs Worksheet
- Measuring Lines of Bugs Preschool Measurement Worksheets
- Count and Clip Bugs Counting to 30 Worksheets
- Buzzing Bees Numbers 1-12 Worksheets
- I Spy Printables pdf – bug activity sheets
- Bee CVC Words Activity for Kids
- Bug Themed Find the letter worksheets pdf
- FUN Backyard Critter Bug Worksheets for Kindergarten
- Ladybug Counting Mats
- Silly Worm Count to 10 Sticker Worksheets
- Free Printable Insect Mini Book to learn about bug life cycles
- Hands-on Spider Shape Activities for Preschoolers
- Free, Educational Insect Coloring Pages pdf for kids
- Help children work on spelling their name with these insect free printable name recognition activities
- Plus don’t miss these fun-to-read bug books for preschool
Weekly Themes
Whether you use these themed learning ideas for your lower elementary age students or as preschool weekly themes, we’ve got lots of fun themed eductational activities to make your lesson plan:
- Learn about lots of birds with this bird themes
- Explore the fascinating world of insects in this bugs themes
- Head out to the great outdoors without leaving your homes with this fun camping themes
- Teach kids about community helpers with these fun math, literacy, and community helpers crafts and activities
- Ready for some prehistoric fun learning in this dinosaur themes
- Explore the season of autumn with these fun fall unit study
- Old McDonald had a farm EIEIO; kids will have fun learning about farm animals and tasks with this farm theme
- Kids will bloom with knowledge as they learn valuable skills and create projects in this flower theme
- Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean you can’t sneak in some learning with this fun, engaging 4th of july theme
- This September, you’ve got to try these fun apple themed activities for Johnny Appleseed Day Activities
- Dive in and learn about animals under the sea with this oceans theme
- For a week that’s out of this world, check out the ideas in this space theme
- Get ready for St Patty’s day in March with these creative St Patrick’s Day Theme
- Learn about the pilgrims in this creative Thanksgiving Unit Study
- Celebrate Earth day in April with this Tree Theme perfect for spring
- Roses are red, violets are blue, learning is fun, with Valentines Day themes
- Rain, snow, sleet, and hail – discover fascinating facts in this weather theme
- Bird watching is lots of fun with this bird theme
- It may be COLD outside, but inside it is warm and toasty as kids learn with this winter theme
- Discover some amazing animals in this fun zoo theme with hundreds of fun and clever activities
- Find all our weekly themes here or explore our preschool weekly themes for 50 more exciting weekly unit studies.
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