Create a cute Love Bug with a big heart. It makes a great gift or a darling Valentine's Day decoration.1. Find pictures of bugs or read a book about insects. Then use your imagination to create your own unique Love Bug.
2. Draw a large heart on red paper with erasable colored pencils and cut it out. Decorate the heart with markers, crayons or whatever you'd like. You can write loving messages.
3. On dark construction paper draw a big bug with the head and body attached, but the legs separate. Decorate the bug parts with any way you'd like. Let dry.
4. Cut out a small strip of construction paper, about 1 inch by 3 inches. Fold the strip accordion-style ,there should be 5 folds. Press down on the folds to crease them. This will be a spring that makes the heart bounce on the bug's belly.
5. Cut out the bug and its legs. Glue one of the spring's end flaps to the center of the bug's body. Glue the heart onto the other end flap, so the spring stands on end between the bug's body and the heart.
6. Before attaching the legs, fold them in half. Glue one end of each leg to the bug and the other end to the heart, so it looks like the bug is holding onto the heart. Dry. The hugging heart will bounce once the bug is put together and the glue dries.
Very cute V-day project, I'm going to try this one out with the kiddos soon!
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