Printable Insect Activities for Kids

July 22, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

It might be too hot and buggy where you live to go outside and observe real insects, but these printable insect activities are lots of fun for those kids who are really into bugs.

This little printable insect book from Hey Kelly Marie is a 12 page book kids can color and use to learn the names of some basic bugs like dragonflies, moths and praying mantises.

For older kids, Playdough to Plato has a printable bug book where kids can do research about different insects and record their findings.

Simply Everyday Mom has cute printable bug flashcards for kids to learn the basic names, while Stay at Home Educator has good printable fact cards to extend the learning.

Color some more bugs with these color by number printables from Homemade Heather. These include a grasshopper, fly, ant, butterfly and other cuties, and will help with color and number recognition as well. 123 Homeschool 4 Me also has some bug coloring pages, and these include writing practice with the names of the bugs included.

Or grab the insect I spy printable from Kindergarten Worksheets and Games, which can be colored as kids find the insects, or you can print it in color and just use it for counting. Easy Peasy Learners has dot marker printables for insects, too, that you can print in color or black and white if you want to add more coloring to the activity.

Even if it’s too hot to go outside, you can still get some movement in with these printable bug movement cards from Homeschool Share. Get your kiddos to wriggle like a worm, tiptoe like a spider, creep like a slug, twirl like a ladybug and more.

Picklebums has a cute catch a bug printable game that’s low prep. You just need to print the game pieces and cut out the bugs, and make a little die with the colors to use for the game.

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Sun Activities for Kids

With summer coming soon in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a fun time to incorporate activities and crafts with a sunny theme. Take some time to learn about the sun (this post from National Geographic Kids is a good one) and then do some sun activities.

Sun prints are a classic summer activity, and there are lots of ways to do them, from placing objects on construction paper (like in this craft from MomBrite) or by using sun print paper (aka cyanotype paper).

Practice threading, counting, color sorting and other skills with this easy sun threading activity from Taming Little Monsters.

Lessons 4 Little Ones has a great blog post full of ideas for science experiments using the sun, such as melting crayons, looking at shadows, making a sun dial and trying a solar oven. Printables to go with the lessons are available for purchase or you can just talk through the students’ hypotheses about what will happen and draw or otherwise record the results.

This updraft tower from Almost Unschoolers is a cool way to illustrate that the heat of the sun causes an updraft, which makes the pinwheel spin. This is a good one to do inside near a sunny window so you don’t have wind spinning the pinwheel instead.

You’ll want to get out in the sun to try this experiment form Life with Moore Babies to see what kinds of things the sun can melt. Using different kinds of sweets you can see how the sun melts things by itself and how you can concentrate the power of the sun with a magnifying glass.

Playing with shadows is fun for kids of all ages, and you can track a shadow through the day with this experiment from Science Sparks. If you’re working with multiple kids they can each choose an object to shadow (ha!) and at the end of the day you can see how different their shadows looked.

And of course you’ll want to make a sun themed suncatcher craft, right? This one from Fox Farm Home uses all the pretty flowers you collect on your nature walk and puts them in a sun-shaped frame.

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