Storytime - Lovely Ladybugs

Toddler

Books: The Very Lazy Ladybug by Isobel Finn and Jack Tickle and CanYou Make a Scary Face? by Jan Thomas

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Ladybug” with ladybug puppet, “Pretty Ladybug” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Build a Ladybug. Materials: red construction paper oval, black construction paper head, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued the head to the body of the ladybug and drew on spots.

Preschool

Books: The Very Lazy Ladybug by Isobel Finn and Jack Tickle and CanYou Make a Scary Face? by Jan Thomas

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Head and Shoulders”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Ladybug Headbands Materials: red construction paper strips, small black construction paper strips, black construction paper die cut spots, glue, tape, crayons, and scissors. The preschoolers taped their red strips together, added their spots, and taped on their antennae to make a ladybug hat.

Songs/Rhymes

Ladybug

Sung to: "Three Blind Mice"

Fly, fly, fly

Ladybugs fly

Fly over here

Fly over there

They fly up high and they fly down low.

Around and around and around they go.

They fly fast, and they fly slow.

Oh, ladybugs fly.

--PreschoolEducation.com

Pretty Ladybug

Sung to: "The Muffin Man"
Ladybug has 1 black spot,
1 black spot, 1 black spot;
Ladybug has 1 black spot,
Pretty ladybug!

Continue until there are 6 spots.

--from PreschoolEducation.com