Use Waste Paper Straws And Bottle Caps To Make Insects, A Complete Collection Of Children’s Crafts Using Waste Materials

As soon as spring arrives, the little bugs become active in the flower beds in the community and on the grass in the park.

At home, the children lie on the ground every day, watching ants and chasing butterflies. They are extremely curious about these tiny lives.

If you spend money to buy toys, you might as well take your children with you and use discarded materials such as bottle caps, paper tubes, and foam balls at home to make many lovely insect handicrafts.

It can exercise hands-on skills and allow children to understand nature. The key point is that the materials are readily available and can be used as decoration after completion.

Today I want to share with you a very comprehensive collection of children's handmade products about waste recycling. There are ones in the shape of hard-working bees and dancing butterflies. Each one has simple and exquisite features. You can play with your children on weekends!

Bottle cap turns into fashionable ladybug

Finished the drink bottle cap Don't throw it away in a hurry, wash it and it will be a perfect ladybug body.

Tired of the traditional red background with black dots?

Let children use it Color pigments Draw new clothes for the ladybug, either blue polka dots or rainbow stripes.

If you want to become more environmentally friendly, you can also make the can pull tab into a ladybug. Press the pull tab flat to use it as a body, draw eyes and spots with a marker, and put it on a string to use as a small pendant.

Used toilet paper tubes at home are treasures. Cut a small section of the paper tube and press it out to form a three-dimensional body of a ladybug. Apply red paint, cut out dots from black cardboard and paste them on. The antennae can be replaced by hair roots or toothpicks.

There is also an ultra-light clay version. Roll it into a red ball and flatten it. Use black clay to make the head and spots. Children can make baby ladybugs with various expressions, which is very suitable for kindergarten craft classes.

Table tennis and the bee army in the egg tray

table tennis It's round and round, so it's perfect for the body of a bee.

Take yellow paint and cover the entire ping pong ball, then use a black marker to draw stripes on it, and then attach movable eyes and hair root antennae. As for the wings, use white cardboard or transparent plastic sheets and cut them into the shape of water droplets.

Even more wonderful is to use egg trays to make honeycombs, cut the egg trays into individual grids, paint these grids yellow, and place a table tennis bee in each grid, thus forming a complete honeycomb scene.

If you have foam balls at home, you can also create a more three-dimensional effect. Use a cotton swab dipped in yellow paint to apply the foam balls, roll the black light clay into thin strips and wrap them around the body as stripes. Insert the twist stick into the head to make antennae. Cut the sponge paper and paste it on the back as wings. Bend the twist stick at the bottom into a small stinger, which is the stinger of the bee.

Normally, these materials would be thrown into the trash can. Unexpectedly, when combined, they turned out to be a group of chubby and cute bees.

Two ways to play with cardboard bees

The simplest and most classic way is to use paper jam Be a bee.

The first way to play is to use yellow and black paint to randomly paint striped textures on white paper. After the paint dries, draw the outline of the bee on the back of the paper. It doesn't matter whether it is fatter or thinner. After cutting it out, paste the movable eyes, hair root antennae and paper tail, and draw the mouth with a red pen.

Another way to play is a more three-dimensional state: first print or draw the bee drawing, then color it and cut it out, then fold the bee's wings in half, cut the body part according to the drawn lines, perform the same folding action, and then place the body into the gap of the wings and unfold it, so that the bee can stand up.

The bees made in this way can stand on the table, and children can make several of them and line them up in a row, which gives them a particularly sense of accomplishment.

Both methods require only paper, scissors, and a paintbrush, and you can make one in ten minutes.

Foam balls and cotton swabs make three-dimensional bees

Want to be a more playful bee?

try foam ball and cotton swab combination.

Prepare a ball-shaped foam object, dip a cotton-tipped stick into yellow paint, and apply it evenly to cover the entire foam ball. After it dries, attach eyeballs with movable effects, and then use a red color paintbrush to draw a smiling mouth.

Take out two twisting rods, cut one into two pieces, and insert it into the top of the head as an antenna. Then twist the other into a small thorn and insert it into the tail.

Knead the black light clay into slender strips, and attach these slender strips one by one to the foam ball, thus forming the iconic stripes of the bee.

Use sponge paper to cut the wings in a shape similar to water droplets or petals. Paste the wings on the back of the bee with the help of white light clay.

This version has a soft touch to the touch. After the light clay dries, it becomes very strong and is not easily torn by children.

If you don’t have foam balls at home, use Styrofoam ball or paper clay You can also make a ball.

Popsicle sticks and straws make summer dragonflies

Summer dragonflies are also indispensable.

Find one Popsicle sticks For the body, paint it all over with green or blue paint.

If the eyes are not big enough, they will never look exactly like a dragonfly. You can use two bottle caps or large buttons to paste the movable eyes and then glue them to one end of the popsicle stick.

Use straws and transparent plastic pieces to make wings. Cut the straw into small pieces to serve as the middle part of the body. Cut the plastic piece into an elongated wing shape and sandwich it between the straw and the popsicle stick.

There is a different way to make a dragonfly, which is easier to operate: first, cut the paper card into the shape of a dragonfly, then fold it in half, then cut a few slits at the tail, then insert straws on the paper card as antennae, and finally apply the color of your choice. In this way, a dragonfly with a long tail is ready.

Hang it by the classroom window or in the outdoor corridor. When the wind blows gently by, the wings will sway slightly, giving it a special feeling in summer.

Caterpillar combined with paper tube and yarn

Cut the paper roll into small rings with a width of one centimeter. Paint each such small ring with a different color. Use glue or double-sided tape to connect these small rings with different colors into a string. Starting from the front, paste movable eyes and woolen tentacles on the first ring, thus forming a colorful caterpillar.

If it is softer, wool and cardboard can be used to make it. Cut out a rectangular piece of cardboard, wrap the wool tightly around it, and then remove it from the cardboard until it has a certain thickness. Tie the two ends firmly, and use threads of different colors in the middle to tie them together to create a segmented effect on the body of the caterpillar. Finally, glue on the eyes and antennae. It feels furry to the touch, and children are especially happy to hold it in their hands.

Spring is the best time to do insect crafts. The materials are all common waste at home, such as bottle caps, paper tubes, foam balls, popsicle sticks, etc. They are accumulated on weekdays and not discarded. On weekends, they are taken out to form a set of craft classes.

When you take your children to do it, you don’t need to pursue perfection. It doesn’t matter whether the tentacles are crooked or twisted, or the brush paints colors beyond the bounds. The joy that children get from doing things on their own is the most worthy of cherishing and cherishing.

After finishing it, don’t forget to place it on the windowsill or hang it on the balcony, so that those little flightless insects can accompany your children to spend a spring full of creativity and laughter.