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Bug Jars
 
Grade: 2-4 •
Age: 6-10 •
Submitted by: Laura Stuart-Smith
[Laura is an art teacher at St. Joseph School in Sharon, PA]
Objectives:
Children will learn to look at the details of bugs and plants as they learn about symmetry and asymmetry.
What You Need:
- large white paper
- crayons
- black markers
- jar pattern (optional) Older children can do quite well drawing their own jar.
What You Do:
- Show children a variety of bug amd plant drawings.
- Teach them to look at the bugs from the top (symmetric) and from the side (asymmetric).
- Have them draw a bug jar with pencil (younger children can use a pattern for this).
- Have children draw bugs and plants, and a bug setting in their bug jars.
- Next children go over pencil lines with black markers.
- Finish with each child coloring their project with crayons.
Definitions
Symmetric:
Of or exhibiting symmetry.
Symmetry:
Exact correspondence of form and constituent configuration on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane or about a center or an axis.
Asymmetric:
Having no balance or symmetry.
Watch a video showing line symmetry:
www.linkslearning.org/Kids/1_Math/2_Illustrated_Lessons/4_Line_Symmetry/index.html
Recommended Products:
Recommended Books:
Big Book of Bugs
by Theresa Greenaway
The newest addition to DK's Big Book of series is Big Book of Bugs - the up-close and personal book for young entomologists and all curious kids who are fascinated with bugs. Look right into a spider's eye and get tangled in its web! Marvel at the stunning pictures of teeny tiny creepy crawlies blown up to extraordinary sizes. Engaging annotations provide buggy facts and figures. Larger than life photographs of creepy crawlies include locusts, caterpillars, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, ants, praying mantis, and more!
Insects, Bugs, & Art Activities
by Polly Goodman and Steve Parker
© Laura Stuart-Smith
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