We are starting our hands onbug unitby learning aboutants for kids.
Thisants for kidslesson is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students too.
Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler you will love theseant activityideas!
It really helped them to visualize & understand the stages.
We put them in order and then Tinker Bell (almost 2) got to play with them.
Ant activities for kindergarten
We put ants in ourant farmand observed them building tunnels so cool!
We drew an ant hill and the tunnels inside.
Then we made fingerprint ants going up the hill and inside the ant.
we added ants in the different lifecycle stages, the larger queen ant, and labeled them.
(My kids tell me this was their favorite part).
We added some googly eyes and WHALA we have our own, super cute ANTS!
Put 6 legs (toothpicks) in Play Dough to see how ants balance.
That is how an ant balances when they walk.
They pull up those legs, balance, move forward, and repeat on the opposite legs.
Ant activities for toddlers
We had the classic Ants on a Log (with a twist).
I didnt have any raisins on hand so I used some mini chocolate chips we had laying around YUM!
Yep, the kids ate a bug they said it tasted like cereal!
It is amazingly FUN!
New Orleands has an amazing Insect museum too.
Such a fun movie!
This was actually at our local park district and included interacting with actual bugs during intermission!
