Eco Friendly Children’s Craft Activity - Bugs Living in a Village

A fun and easy craft activity that will involve your kids in finding their materials outdoors.
Send them off on a scavenger hunt to gather acorn tops, small rocks, sticks of various sizes and their imagination. With the help of parents, this Eco friendly activity is great for ages 4 and up.

What you will need:

Sticks in various sizes
Acorn tops
Smooth rocks in different sizes
Hot glue gun (parents must do this!)
Square scrap of wood
Matte acrylic spray sealer
Small woodsie sign (optional)
Black fine tip craft pen
Stylus or toothpick
Paintbrush
Household sponge
Acrylic paint (Suggested Colors: forest green, olive green, light brown, cream, light blue, light green, red, blue, orange, yellow, pink, purple, black, and white).

Instructions:

Safety note: Parents should handle the glue gun as temperatures can get very hot and cause uncomfortable burns.

Paint the block of wood with forest green paint. When dry, sponge on some olive green paint to the forest green. Paint the sticks with light brown paint. Paint some of the acorn tops with light blue and the rest with light green. Glue the sticks to the wood, then glue the acorn tops to the sticks.

Wash all the rocks and be sure they are dry before you paint them. Use various colors to paint the rocks: blue, red, purple, pink, green, etc. Use the stylus or toothpick to dot on spots and/or lines to your bugs. Dot on white spots for eyes, and a smaller black dot onto the white spot. Glue rocks in place when they are dry.

Create a sign by painting a small woodsie sign with cream paint, then shade the edges with light brown. Use black fine tip craft pen to write “Welcome to Bug Village” in the center.

Use it as a decoration in your child’s room.

Craft Source: KinderArt.com by Amanda Formaro

One Response to “Eco Friendly Children’s Craft Activity - Bugs Living in a Village”

1. Rachel says:

   October 30, 2009 at 11:05 pm

   This is the most adorable little bug village I’ve seen! Very cute!