Materials- Plastic milk jugs, one per child
- Scissors
- Paper birthday blowers
- Tempera paint
- Construction paper scraps
- Materials such as pipe cleaners, straws, pompoms, feathers, stickers, yarn, button, sequins, and bits of fabric
- Glue
What To Do- Ahead of time, cut away the back half of the milk jug, leaving the base intact. The jug's base is the top of the mask and will sit on the child's head; the front of the jug is the insectface. Cut two openings for the eyes and a hole for the mouth and birthday blower, or insect tongue.
- Encourage the children to decorate their masks with the paint and craft materials.
- While the children are working, invite them to imagine how their insect moves, what kind of second it makes, what its habitat is like, who its enemies are, and what food it needs to live.
- Invite the children to put on their finished masks and behave like insects.
More To DoDramatic play: Invite the children to put on a play while wearing their insect masks. Games: Play Insect Tic-Tac-Toe. Divide the class into two groups and ask them to identify the insect in pictures you show them. Correct answers win a X or O on the game board. Related BooksBugs by Nancy Winslow Parker and Joan R. Wright
Icky Bug Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
Icky Bug Counting Book by Jerry Pallotta
Insectlopedia by Douglas Florian
The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema --Christine Maiorano, Duxbury, MA | 
