eggs-worth. you can get four insect bodies out of one egg carton, so you can explore and make more than one kind of insect.
coffee filters—cut these each into six pieces for wings. you can see how to cut them from the photo of our completed insect below.
pipe cleaners—cut these into 3-inch pieces for legs.
craft supplies to decorate and color your insect—use feathers, googly eyes, crayons, gems, and tacky glue. insects come in all shapes and sizes from simple black ants to very colorful, shimmery beetles. have fun creating!
use these materials to build your own insect.
as we built our insect and decided what it should look like, we talked about the 