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, buttons, sequins, andbits of fabric
Glue
Instructions
1. Ahead of time, cut away the back half of the milk jug, leaving the base intact. The jug's base isthe top of the mask and will sit on the child's head; the front of the jug is the insect face. Cuttwo openings for the eyes and a hole for the mouth and birthday blower, or insect tongue.
2. Encourage the children to decorate their masks with the paint and craft materials.
3. While the children are working, invite them to imagine how their insect moves, what kind ofsound it makes, what its habitat is like, who its enemies are, and what food it needs to live.
4. 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 theinsect in pictures you show them. Correct answers win an X or O on the game board.
