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Party ideas: Beautiful bugs (ages 3 to 10)

From bees to butterflies, kids just love bugs. Encourage your future entomologist with a bug-themed bash, perfect for bug lovers of all ages!

Invitation ideas

• Buy large or small plastic insects at a toy shop and glue them to the party invitations or to plain white cards. Write the party details around the insects and place the cards in envelopes. Drop a few more insects into the bottom of each envelope for an added surprise, and post to your guests.
• Create your own critters from thick black craft paper. Trace or draw bug shapes on the paper. Cut out the shapes and glue them onto sheets of white paper. Use metallic paints to write out party details.

Decorations

• Fill the party room with plastic spiders, beetles, worms, ants and other creepy-crawlies.
• Sprinkle plastic ants on the table, stick jelly worms in the snack bowl, hang spiders from the ceiling, and spread bugs all over the floor.
• Tuck some insects under a napkin or on a chair for an added surprise.

Games

• Have a bug race and see how many insects the children can spot in the garden or park in five minutes. Draw sketches of insect types or give the kids charts to help them identify bugs they find.
• Have the children collect insects. Give them boxes to hold the specimens. Return the insects to the garden when the activity is over.
• Play Caterpillar. Have all the guests stand in a line, bend over, and hold onto the guest in front of them. Then have the first player in line lead the rest of the 'body' in a game of follow-my-leader. Give each player a chance to be the 'head' of the caterpillar.

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