Ladybug, Ladybug!

We're beginning to plan for the summer and, of course, we're planning to present a bug storytime.  I'm not sure that I'll be using ladybugs but I found this not-flannel prop and rhyming game that I made last year and thought I'd share it.  

The Lovely Ladybug

(by Kathryn Roach)

Let’s play a ladybug color game

I’ll give you rhyming clues

If you know it, say the name

Of each color that I use!

The first color for our buggy fellow

Is the color of sunshine

It’s the color yellow.

Frogs in the pond and a fresh snap bean

Did you guess the color green?

The sky above and the ocean too

Such a beautiful color, it's the color blue.

Strawberry ice cream, come on now, think.

You are right! It’s the color pink!

Grapes for jelly on a P B & J,

Purple is the color we say!

Pumpkins or basketballs rolling by

Orange is the color that we now spy.

Fluffy clouds and the moon at night

Did you say the color white?

Roses that grow in a garden bed

Are this beautiful color, the color red.

Ladybug, ladybug up in the sky

Thanks for the fun

and now we say, “Goodbye!”

I traced the large circle and cut it out and glued the partial circle black construction paper head on the file folder and ran the folder through the laminator. Then, I attached the black construction paper circles to the film on the large circle with a teensy bit of double sided tape and ran the file folder through the laminator again.  I hot glued the google eyes and black pipe cleaner antennae on and stacked my colored paper (trimmed to fit) in the file folder with black to start and end with the red.
Now that's a lot of buggy fun at Storytime!