How To Make It
- For the body, use a black leotard or
turtleneck with black leggings or sweatpants.
- For the antennae, wrap two pipe cleaners
around a headband. If desired, curl the pipe cleaners around a pencil or
finger.
- For the ladybug, use half a sheet of red
poster board. Cut the poster board into an oval.
- Cut two 1/2 inch strips of black
construction paper and glue down the center of the poster board oval.
- Cut various size circles out of black
construction paper and glue on the poster board in a symmetric pattern.
- Let glue dry.
- To attach the wings, cut four sets of two
slits in the poster board wings. The slits should be about an inch long
and an inch apart, two sets near the top of the wings, and two sets about
twelve to fourteen inches below.
- Thread a length of inch-wide ribbon through
the slits to form shoulder straps, with the ends of the ribbon through the
bottom slits. Try the wings on the child, adjust the shoulder straps to
fit, and tie off the ribbon.
Tips
This idea could also be modified to make
dragonflies, house flies, bumblebees, and other bugs using other colors of
poster board and making an appropriate shaped pattern to transfer onto the
poster board.
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