This easy-to-make bug craft is will keep your students engaged - you can either have them make their own puppets, or you can use this activity to make the puppets yourself and use them during story time.

There are 16 different bug designs - they all come both in pre-colored and black and white versions for kids to color in themselves.

Click preview to see all of the designs.

Ideas on how to use these clothespin puppets:

• make them yourself and use them during story time
• have the kids make their own (coloring them by themselves or by assembling the pre-colored puppets)
• give your students the puppets along with a writing assignment - encourage them to write their own little plays and act them out
• a fun insect craft addition to bug unit study

Each of the insects comes both in left-facing and right-facing positions - so you can also glue them on both sides of the clothespin.

Bugs included: 4 ladybugs, 4 caterpillars, 4 butterflies, and 4 bees (or bumblebees, wasps, hornets...).

Just print, cut, and stick on to a clothespin. A chatty clothespin puppet craft is ready to play.