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Materials

Clay

Toothpicks

Pipe cleaners

What to do

Instructions

1. Tell the children to roll the clay into three body segments. Help the children attach the segmentswith toothpicks.

2. When they are finished, show the children how to insert three pipe cleaners on each side oftheir bug, then bend the pipe cleaners into a leg shape.More to doScience: Design a habitat for the clay insects using rocks, twigs, leaves, and dirt.

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