Material Required:

1. Small Cardboard Box
2. Colored Papers – green (for bushes), red/blue/ yellow (for flowers)
3. Cut outs of bugs
4. String
5. Glue
6. Blue Paint
7. Green Sawdust (for grass)

How we made this:

1. I took a small cardboard box lying around in my class and cut out the open up side of the box. Then I placed it up vertically as seen in the pic.
2. Then I painted the background blue.
3. On the base, i applied a lot of fevicol and sprinkled green saw dust for grass. I let it dry for an hour or so.
4. Meanwhile, I took some green colored paper and cut out grass from it. I then pasted it in 3 layers on the grass bottom as seen in the pic.
5. Finally I cut out some flowers from colored paper and stuck on the bushes.

Here is our setup ready for the Bugs World:

              

What the kids did:

1. I drew some bugs, colored them and cut out beforehand – caterpillar, grasshopper, spider, butterfly, earthworm, dragonfly, ant, snail, housefly etc. You can use printed pictures from books too.
2. I laid them out in a plate.
3. One by one, every kid came and placed the bug wherever they liked. I kept applying a little glue to each one of them.

Here is our little Bugs World:

Here are my kiddies who kept exploring the Bugs World every now and then..

---