I love using nature in art making activities.  The key to making bugs out of rocks and found nature is using artist's heavy gel medium as the glue.  This is like a thick paste and will join the pieces together so the children can do all the work themselves.
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Making a Rock Bug and its Habitat from Fairy Dust Teaching on Vimeo.
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I put out a tray of things for the children to use in their bug making.

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To make the bug's habitat, I purchased small paper bags at Michael's.  I prepared the bags by cutting an opening.  I had the children glue the bag to a small paper plate.  Then they glued on different materials to create a habitat.

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This is a tray of found materials (from my morning walk) to use in habitat making.

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