Cardboard Bugs Craft

When it comes to our craft activities, probably half of them come from my own ideas or those I've discovered on Pinterest or on the Internet and the other half are inspired by Tommy's interests. This activity was one of Tommy's requests. We'd just had a large delivery from IKEA and so we had a large cardboard box knocking around and we thought we might as well make use of it to create these gorgeous little bugs.

We started by cutting out a variety of different bug shapes from the corrugated cardboard box, using pictures from the Internet and books as our inspiration and then painted them in a variety of bright colours.

 

Once they were dry, we cut pipecleaners and pushed them through the slots in the corrugated cardboard. We then added googly eyes and decorative details like wings, stripes or markings using pompom balls, foam and tracing paper.