Bugs Club - mushimushicraft

BUGS CLUB

Mushimushi Craft - Crafts of Insects and Nature

What you can learn from this activity: Help understand insects and nature with close obervations to make crafts. Enjoy using your fingers and create some objects

When and where to do: Anywhere Anytime

Materials: Leaves of weeds or palm trees, or craft paper bands, or cray, scissors, pencil

Procedure:

This activity is planned to help understand insects and nature rather than crafting itself. A good example is the "Playing with Kaydid" in our Bugs Club activities. By making a something by the craft, children get a chance to look at insects and other living things very closely. Also, children can get a series of experiences that are using findgers, using their minds to think, gradually creating structures, but may fail sometimes. For small children under 10 years old, please help them at the biggining by initiating the first part of the crafting. They will gradually find ways to proceed further naturally.

1. Orientation, 2. Mushimushi Quiz - By answering the quize, you can think what insects are and what characteristics they have. This will become clues when you make a model of insect, 3. Understand characteristics of insect body by enlarging the view of an insect by a microscope, 4. Further understand insect body by making a model of insect, 5. Make a katydid model with help from parents or guardians, 6. Reflection with questionnaire.

Preparation：

□　Picture Book	□　Leaflet
□　Participation Label	□　Questionnaire
□　Color Pencils	□　Materials for models
□　Drawing paper	□　An example of model
□　Paper dish	□　Water
□　Microscope	□　Specimens
□　Guide books	□　Palm tree leaves
□　Adhesives	□　Paint marker
□　Medicine Box	□　Plate, roller, and spatulla