Bedbugs and Night Crawlers week 4
Books
Fiction
Nonfiction
Picture Books & Readers
Movies
Butterfly and
Moth
The Roach Approach
Websites
Bug: a puzzle game for kids
Bugs: insects 4
kids
Yucky Roach
World
Extremely Buggy Facts
Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
German cockroaches can survive for up to one month without food and two
weeks without water.
A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.
If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one.
The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old – 80 million
years older than the first dinosaurs!
Cockroach can live up to nine days without its head.
There is only one insect that can turn its head -- the praying mantis.
Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight.
Did you know there are more insects in more places on the planet than any
other living creature? No one knows for sure how many different kinds of
insects there are, but scientists think there are at least 3 MILLION insect
species in the world! And they can be found just about everywhere on earth –
even in the coldest and hottest areas of our planet! Let’s face it – Insects
Rule the Earth!
Insects have gotten a bad name for the most part – mosquitoes bite, ants and
flies ruin picnics and many bugs eat the same things that we do. But without
insects our lives would be very different. Insects help us by pollinating
our fruit trees, our vegetables, and the flowers in our yards. Can you
imagine what it would be like without fruits and vegetables or flowers?
Without insects we couldn’t survive!
Web-spinners are scavengers of plant material. Most food consists of moss,
bark and dead leaves from the forest floor. After mating, males do not feed
and may then be consumed by the females.
The adult female praying mantis usually eats the male after or during
mating.
Jokes
Where do termites read books?
At branch libraries.
Which bug is losing weight?
The lightning bug.
Which bug goes to church regularly?
The praying mantis
Which bug is handy of a long hike?
The walking stick.
What happens when a lightening bug dives into hot oil?
It’s just a
flash in the pan.
What kind of worm lived in King Arthur’s time?
The knight-crawler.
Where was the beetle when the sun went down?
In the dark.
Why did the moth chase the lightening bug?
Because the moth couldn’t
read in the dark.
Fun Activities
• Get a small flashlight. Darken the room slightly and flick your
flashlight on and off.
• Roach Coaches
The following craft is adapted from an out-of-print book, Bats,
Butterflies and Bugs: A Book of Action Toys by S. Adams Sullivan (pages
24–25).
What you need:
• Matchbox car or any small cars approximately 1¼" x 3"
• cockroach pattern on page 241
• tape
• markers
What you do:
1. Print out the “Roach Coach” pattern on page 241.
2. Color and cut out the cockroach.
3. Tape the cockroach to the top of the car.
4. Name their car.
5. Zoom!
Use these “buggy buggies” or “roach coaches” in a game by creating an
oval racetrack, marked at regular intervals.
Bed Bug Crafts
Make-and-Take: Glow-in-the-Dark Firefly (page 141 in manual)
Activity Firefly Jar (page 137 in manual)
Bug Snacks
Ants on a Log
Spread peanut butter on celery or large pretzel sticks. Add raisins for
ants then eat!
Butterfly Toast
Toast bread.
Have the children spread peanut butter or jelly on the toast. Lay a
pretzel stick in the middle for the butterfly body.
Honey Comb
Draw a simple grid on pieces of paper. Serve Honey Comb cereal
for snack. Put a dice on the table.
Children roll the dice and count out cereal onto their grid, one per
square. When their grid is full they can eat the honey comb.
Chocolate Pretzel Spider
Stick two oreo cookies together with chocolate frosting. Make 8
curved legs by breaking bow-tied pretzels, and attach them around the
middle of the spider by sticking them into the chocolate frosting. Use M
& M's for eyes on the front, 'glued' with frosting.
As a variation, use sandwich crackers, instead of sandwich cookies,
stuck together with peanut butter
Butterfly Snacks
Use pretzels as butterfly wing frames, and stick them together
with softened caramel candy or peanut butter. Sprinkle chocolate chips
on top.
Bug Blood or Bug Juice
Mix a yellow drink (citrus pop or lemonade) with a blue one
(kool-aid). You'll end up with a radioactive shade of green.
Caterpillar in a Cocoon
1) Use a bundt cake & filling recipe or box, but bake in
cupcake tins (greased-do not use cupcake papers). When cool, dip or
cover with a thin layer of frosting, and then roll in or sprinkle
coconut on top.
2) Soften (but don't melt!) caramel candies, coat with melted chocolate
and/or roll in nuts/sprinkles/coconut.
Spider Cake
1 boxed cake mix
Black Frosting
1 box green gelatin
8 black licorice sticks
8 gumdrops, M & M's or other round candy
for eyes
Prepare any boxed cake mix. Bake it in 2 metal bowls, 1 bigger than the
other. Once unmolded, cut the bigger one (the"body") in half,
horizontally. CAREFULLY scoop out an adequate cavity in each half. FILL
with well-whipped set green Jello, and reattach the halves. Frost both
cakes black, arrange on serving platter. Use licorice sticks as legs.
Use 2 BIG green gumdrops and 6 little ones as eyes. When the cake is cut
into, it spurts green goop, just like a real spider when stepped on.
Variations:
1) Add a red hourglass to the back for a Black Widow.
2) Substitute pistachio pudding instead of green jello.
Black cake frosting: add blue food coloring to chocolate frosting or
purchase black food coloring from a specialty store.
Fly-in-the-Batter Desserts
Fly-in-the-batter cookies: Make chocolate chip or oatmeal
cookies, adding raisins (flies) or chocolate sprinkles (gnats).
Fly-in-the-batter pudding: Vanilla pudding with raisins.
Cow Pies: Chocolate pudding with slivered almonds or coconut sprinkles
(maggots). Place a few plastic fly adults on top.
Bee Bread
1 cup corn syrup
1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 cup peanut butter
1 1/4 cup powdered milk
Combine ingredients, then roll into 1-2" balls, then roll the balls in
powdered sugar to keep them from sticking together.
“DIRT” Cake
1 20-oz. pkg. chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed
1/2 stick margarine
1 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
3-1/2 c. milk
2 pkg. instant chocolate pudding
1 12-oz. tub whipped topping
1/4 c. mini marshmallows (for "beetle grubs")
1 plastic flower pot
1 plastic flower
plastic ants/beetles
gummy worms
Cream margarine, sugar, cream cheese. In another bowl mix milk and
pudding. Let sit until thick. Stir in cool whip, mix with cream cheese
mixture. Make sure pot holes are plugged. Put 1/3 of cookie crumbs in
bottom of pot. Add 1/2 of cream cheese mixture. Repeat cookie crumbs and
cream cheese mixture, adding some gummy worms and the mini marshmallows.
Add extra crumbs on top (to look like dirt). Refrigerate over night. Add
flower(s), plastic bugs, and the rest of the gummy worms on top. Use a
trowel to serve.