Ladybug Kids’ Activity for $1
by
Jewellmartin
3 Materials
$2
30 Minutes
Easy
With active, creative little grandgirls who visit briefly a couple of times a week, sometimes I’m searching for “projects”, as they call them, where there is little cost, little mess, cute, and safe. This project started with a bag of 100 resin ladybugs ($1 from Wish.com, $2 with shipping).
Ceramic tissue box
I plucked this tissue box cover off my bathroom counter. Any cardboard, plastic or ceramic container will work.
Lonely tomato plant.
This is my overall plan: to have an indoor spa tub ledge garden. This ladybug project for the 5-yr-old fit in with my plan. I want to make the garden cute and fun for the girls and me. The plant stand is a bath shelf—I tepurposed it.
Ladybugs and Lion Guard
Little Kayla carefully peeled the thin piece of paper from the stick-on ladybugs, and placed them in her own design. She started out with 1 blue ladybug, 2 yellow ladybugs, 3 red ladybugs, but she ran out of colors at five. Then she decided clusters (new vocabulary word for bunches) were better. This kept her involved for 25 minutes while she watched an episode of Lion Guard, a Lion King spinoff.
Ladybugs on the move!
After Kayla finished her clusters of stick-on ladybugs (no scissors or glue!), I added a few on too, heading for the tomato plant.
Ladybugs love tomato plants.
Since this is a tissue box cover, there is no bottom. I carefully wiggled the tissue cover over a tomato plant I bought at Walmart a week ago for $2.97. The box was just a little too large to fit into the triangular shelf, so I temporally propped it up with resin cupcakes. The plant is still to get a little saucer under it which should make the box level. I can water the plant from above or below, and it gets plenty of sunlight from this southeast window. As it gets larger, I will transplant it, tissue box and all.
For you or for your little ones, an empty Kleenex box, any kind of stickers, and any other purpose for the box will work. Older children like bigger jewels and stickers, and they can color or use markers on the box, cut out designs, and glue cute paper into the box. Please give some version of my ladybug project a try.
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4 comments
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Very cute and lovely. Made me smile. Love the "clusters". She did a nice job.
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How sweet, I love it!
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Thanks. I like to add motion to my projects; hence the ladybugs in clusters and on top. ☺️
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