Preschool Lesson Plan: Ladybugs

The Ladybug and Other Insects by Pascale de Bourgoing and Gallimard Jeunesse

Reading Center for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ladybugs

Fill your preschool reading center not only with books about ladybugs, but also with books about other insects and flower gardens.

Snack for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ladybugs

Sugar cookies: Bring some purchased sugar cookie dough to preschool with you or have your preschool students help you mix up some sugar cookie dough in class. Roll out the sugar dough. Let your preschool students use a cookie cutter that is the shape of a circle (a standard biscuit cutter) to cut out their cookies. After the cookies have baked and cooled, let your preschool students ice the cookies with vanilla icing that you have previously tinted red with food coloring. Now give your students a small tube of black gel icing with which to paint on a small head, a line to separate the ladybug's wings and some black dots on the wings. Perhaps some of your preschool students would prefer to use raisins for the ladybug dots.

Concepts for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ladybugs

Letter: Ll for ladybug
Number: 8
Shape: circle
Color: red

Fine Motor Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ladybugs

Give your preschool students coloring pages with pictures of ladybugs. Have them color the ladybugs with red and black crayons, using the black crayons for the smaller black spots on the larger red portion of the ladybug. Using crayons helps to develop the fine motor skills of young children.

Gross Motor Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ladybugs

Letter L: Have your preschool students get in groups of two. Instruct them to lie on the floor, constructing a capital letter L using their two bodies. Now have one of them stand and one remain on the ground. Instruct them once again to make a letter L using their two bodies.

Art Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ladybugs

Thumbprint ladybugs: Have your students make red thumbprints using a red stamp pad and a white sheet of paper. Give them each a thin tipped black marker. Instruct them to draw a little black head, two antennae and dotted wings on their thumb prints. Ta da! Each child has a set of ladybugs like no one else's in the world!

Songs/Finger Plays for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ladybugs

Ladybug rhymes, songs and finger plays can be found here!

Pre-math Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ladybugs

Before class, cut a circle from red felt and make a black line with a permanent marker down the center. Also, cut out several blacks dots from felt. Now let your students take turns rolling a die to see how many dots to put on the ladybug.

Pre-writing Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Ladybugs

For younger students, provide sheets of paper with the letters L and l lightly printed on them. Have the children trace the letters. do the same with the number 8.

For older students, provide an example of the letters L and l and the number 8. Have the students practice writing the letters and number freehand.