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

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 a 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