This document provides instructions for a kindergarten art project to make ladybug puppets based on the book The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle. The students will paint red paper, cut out circles for the ladybug bodies, and add details like black spots, legs, heads and eyes using different colored papers and materials. The instructions guide the students through each step to create their own handmade ladybugs.

1. Kindergarten Art Project:
The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
Amy Zschaber
www.artfulartsyamy.com artful.artsy.amy@gmail.com

2. Read The Grouchy Ladybug

3. What’s a ladybug?

4. Who is the main character of The
Grouchy Ladybug?

5. What happens in The Grouchy
Ladybug?

6. Eric Carle wrote and made art for The
Grouchy Ladybug

7. Eric Carle paints paper. Then he cuts
and glues paper to make art

8. We are going to paint paper today. We
will use it next time to make ladybugs.
What color are ladybugs?

9. Paint your paper red. Make sure lots of
texture and streaks appear!

10. We painted our ladybug paper red

11. What shape should we use for our
ladybug’s body?
square
circle
triangle

12. Ladybugs have spots. What color are a
ladybug’s spots?

13. Ladybug counting presentation
from author:
http://goo.gl/FtaMZL

18. What shape should we use for our
ladybug’s body?
square
circle
triangle

19. Trace your circle on red painted paper

20. Cut out your red circle

21. Can you make
your body look
like these lines?!

22. Make different lines on your blue paper

23. Draw a leaf on green paper

24. Draw different lines on your green leaf

25. Cut out your green leaf

26. Glue your green leaf to your blue paper

27. Glue your red circle on your blue paper. It
might be nice if sits on your green leaf!

28. Draw a straight black line through your red
circle

29. Ladybugs have spots. What color are a
ladybug’s spots?

30. How many circles will your ladybug have?
Draw black circles on your red ladybug

31. How many legs does a ladybug have?
1 One
2 Two
3 Three
4 Four
5 Five
6 Six

32. Cut your black paper to make 6 (six)
rectangles

33. Glue the black legs to the ladybug’s body
1
2
3
4
5
6

34. What color is a ladybug’s head?

35. Take your crayon for a walk and draw a
circle on your black paper

36. Cut out your black circle and glue it to your
red ladybug

37. Take 2 (two) bottlecaps and glue them to
your red ladybug to make eyes

38. 1. What color is a ladybug’s body?
2. What color is a ladybug’s legs and
head?
3. How many legs does a ladybug have?
4. What does a zig-zag line look like?
5. What is the name of the book we
read?
6. Who wrote the book we read?
7. What shape is a ladybug’s body?
What do you remember?