Ladybug Art in Kitah Daled

The children of Kitah Daled have been preoccupied with ladybugs. They often point them out excitedly when they see them on the playground. Some children let the insects crawl up their arms. They also enjoy building habitats for them in buckets, adding things like leaves, woodchips, and sand into the container.

Noticing this interest, Morah Jessica printed out photos of ladybugs crawling and flying. There were also pictures of their different stages of development as well as different varieties of beetles.

We talked about how ladybugs help farmers with pest control. They eat aphids and other small bugs that harm their crops.

The children were then offered pencil, drawing paper, and erasers. They had the photos and two large plastic ladybugs for reference.

Some children drew their ladybugs flying, some focused more on details such as the correct number of legs or dots. Once the pencil drawings were finished, the children were given markers to color in their ladybugs. The reference photos showed ladybugs in a variety of colors and patterns. Some children made orange ladybugs with black dots or black ladybugs with red dots. The most popular by far was the traditional red ladybug with black dots.

After all of the children completed their ladybug drawings, they were cut out and laid out on a large sheet of art paper. Morah Jessica interviewed each child about their ladybug. Morah wrote each child’s quote onto a rectangle of cardstock. The children traced their quote in black Sharpie marker and signed their name at the end. Each child’s quote was adhered under their drawing.

One child wrote the title for the piece, as well.

This piece will be framed and auctioned off at the Fun Run in April!

Next, we did an activity called Spider Web Story, where, one at a time each child made up a part of the story, then rolled a ball of yarn across the circle. This continued until each child had a turn and a spider web was created in the center of the circle.