Curriculum Suggestions

Activites for: What to Do When a Bug Climbs in Your Mouth

1. Play "Hangman". Players guess which bug "It" is thinking of.

2. Play "Bug Pantomime". One player is chosen to be "It". They come to the front of the class, and then act like they're a specific bug. The rest of the players guess what the big is. The first person to guess right is the next "It".

3. Play "Bug Bingo".
   1. To prepare, write thirty bug names on small pieces of paper. Put them in a hat or a sack.
   2. Have the kids draw a Bingo grid on a piece of paper. (Show them a grid on the board. A Bingo grid consists of twenty-five squares--five squares across and five squares down.)
   3. Have kids X out the middle square.
   4. Read out the bug names. As you read each name, kids write the bug down in one of the blank squares on their grid. They can skip any six of the bugs.
   5. Put all the bugs back in the hat or bag. Then pull them out one at a time and read them. If a kid has the bug on their bingo grid, they cross it out.
   6. When a player has five squares in a row crossed out, they shout out "Bingo". The game can end there, or you can keep playing until everyone has a Bingo, or until all the squares on all the grids are full.

4. Play "Toss the Bug". Players sit in a circle, or at their desks or tables. One player has a beanbag and starts the game. They shout out a bug name and toss the beanbag to another player. They then shout a bug and toss it to another player. Players keep shouting out bugs and tossing the beanbag until someone can't think of a bug, repeats a bug, or shouts out a word that is not a bug.

   Competitive variations:

   1. All players stand while playing. If they repeat a bug, can't think of a bug, or say a word that is not a bug, then they are out and sit down. The last player standing wins.
   2. Divide the class into two teams. One team lines up on one side of the room, the other team on the other side of the room. Players toss the beanbag bag and forth, from one team to the other, and shout bugs. If they can't quickly think of a bug, or if they shout out a bug that's already been said or a word that's not a bug, the other team gets a point. The first team to get five points wins.

 
 

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Picture Credits
Original bunny climbing rope picture by Paige Miglio (copyright 2000 ©) from One More Bunny authored by Rick Walton.
Original purple monster picture by Renee Williams-Andriani (copyright 1998 ©) from Really, Really Bad School Jokes authored by Rick Walton.
Original bullfrog seated picture by Chris McAllister (copyright 1999 ©) from Bullfrog Pops! authored by Rick Walton.
Electronic modifications by Ann Walton.