Bug Prints

Time

• 30 minutes

Materials

• White paper
• Pencil
• Inkpad

Directions

1. Your child has probably never taken a close look at fingerprints, let alone used them for play. Set out the paper and make fingerprints using an inkpad.
2. Use a pencil to add legs and antennae to the prints so they look like bugs.

Extensions

• Use larger sheets of white shelf paper and you have unique and artsy wrapping paper.
• Draw in rocks and branches for the bugs to sit on.
• Fold paper in half and decorate the front with bugs for note cards.
• Cut long pieces of cardboard or construction paper to make buggy bookmarks.

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Copyright © 2004 by Susan Kettmann. Excerpted from The 2,000 Best Games & Activities with permission of its publisher, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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