1st Grade Lady Bugs and Habitats

I found some unused chicken nugget boxes from our cafeteria, so the best thing to do with them is to create boxes for clay lady bugs! This was a 3 day project

Day 1- Create the lady bug out of clay. The body is made from a pinch pot. We decorated the pinch pot upside-down using wooden sticks. We were sure to poke 3 holes on each bottom side of lady bug to add pipe-cleaner legs later. We also put to holes in the head for antennas.

Day 2- Decorated our chicken nugget boxes. We covered all the sides of the boxes in paper and decorated them. We put "grass" on the inside bottom of our box. We then glued a piece of paper to the inside of our lid stating the lady bugs name, birthday, favorite food, and past time. Last we hole punched the lid and added a pipe cleaner to create a handle.

Day 3- We painted our lady bugs and added legs and antennas with pipe cleaners.