Theme — Bugs:

Books
Bug Safari by Bob Barner
Buz by Richard Egielski
Big Bug Ball by Dee Lillegard
The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni
Best Bug Parade by Stuart Murphy
Bugliest Bug by Carol Diggory Shields

Poems/Fingerplays
Bee Hive
Bugs, Bugs, Bugs
I'm A Big Cicada (Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)

Songs
"Spider on the floor" from Singable Songs for the Very Young by Raffi
"I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" from Unbearable Bears by Kevin Roth
"Ain't no bugs on me" from I Got a Bullfrog by David Holt

Take your pick from this bug themed cd:
Insects and spiders: learn about insects, spiders and other anthropods by Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand

or teach your child one of these old favorites:
"Ants Came Marching"
"Baby Bumblebee"

Activities

• Bug Snacks
  • Apple Ladybugs
    Cut an apple in half. Use 1/2 apple for body.
    Dot peanut butter on skin.
    Place raisins on apple where peanut butter is for spots.
    Use marshmallow on toothpick for head.
    Use ‘Pull 'n Peel’ Twizzlers for antennas.
  • Worms and Dirt
    Place Oreo cookies in a sandwich bag and crush them.
    Then dump them into to paper cup and add gummy worms.
  • Butterflies
    Cut a small piece of celery for the body of the butterfly.
    Spread some cream cheese or peanut butter inside of the stalk of celery. Add 4 small folded pretzels for the butterfly wings. Add 2 strings of black licorice for the antennas.

• Bug Crafts
  • Ladybugs
    Use a round rock the size of your fist. Have the children paint the rock in red and let dry. With a large black felt marker, draw a line in the center, some dots and glue eyes.
  • Spiderwebs
    Cut black construction paper to fit inside a round cake pan. Place the paper in the pan. Dip a marble in white paint and place in the pan. Let the children tip the pan back and forth so that the marble rolls, making a paint trail that looks like a web. Glue a plastic spider to the webs.