Insects
and other tiny treasures
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Let's explore our little tiny living treasures we often see outside.
Insects ~ Bugs ~ Butterflies ~ Worms ~ Moths ~ Spiders... oh my!
While the terms insect and bug are often used to mean the same thing, bugs are actually a sub category of insects. All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs. Insects are animals.
An insect is an invertebrate, which means it does not have a backbone. Instead, an insect has a hard covering on the outside of its body called an exoskeleton. Most insects' bodies have three basic segments (parts): the head, thorax, and abdomen. They also have a pair of antennae, used mainly to smell and feel.
Insects: Some common insects you might be familiar with are ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, and moths.
Spiders: Spiders are not insects. They are also invertebrates with exoskeletons, but their bodies only have two segments, the thorax and abdomen. Spider are arachnids.
Worms: Worms are not insects, but they are also invertebrates, having no backbone. Worms do not have an exoskeleton. They breathe through their skin. There are over 1,800 different kinds of worms around the world.
abdomen: the part of an insect's body that helps it digest foo, produce young, and breathe.
exoskeleton: a hard covering outside the animals body
thorax: the middle part of an insects body that has legs and wings attached to it.
Insects from Educational Videos for Kids
Worms are not insects.
The animal kingdom is split into two groups: vertebrate (animals with a backbone), and invertebrates (animals without a backbone). Both worms and insects are invertebrates.
Baby Worms Hatching Live - Baby Red Wigglers By Lonestar Worms Time lapse video taken on Feb 7-8, 2020 of twin baby worms being born live from a cocoon.
Let's Read! You can find some great read aloud books about all kinds of tiny treasures! Here are a few fiction books read aloud.
My Busy Green Garden by Terry Pierce read aloud by The Joyful Bookshelf
Some Bugs by Angela Diterlizzi read aloud by Teacher's Notes
Be Nice to Spiders by Margaret Graham adapted and read by Toadstools and Fairy Dust
Let's Draw!
How to Draw a Realistic Bee Art for Kids Hub
How to Draw a Butterfly Easy Draw So Cute
Let's Wonder!
Let's wonder while we have fun exploring and creating insects and other tiny treasures.
You could create a mural of the habitat of an insect. For texture you can use a variety of materials, such as construction paper, bugs made with clothespins and tissue, crayons, markers, paints, and tissue paper.
Try this fun paper craft.
Insect Craft Ideas with Fab Arts n Crafts
Nature Journal: You can add the bugs you see or are learning about into your nature journal. You could draw a table like this one. You can just write or draw what you see, even if you don't know the name.
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