Books
Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Bob Barner
Butterfly Butterfly by Petr Horáček
“Buzz, Buzz, Buzz,” Went Bumblebee by Colin West
A Good Place by Lucy Cousins
I Love Bugs by Emma Dodd
I Love Bugs! By Pilemon Sturges
One Little Blueberry by Tammi Salzano
Some Bugs by Angela Diterlizzi
Flannel Boards
Rhymes & Fingerplays
Here is the Beehive
Here is the beehive
But where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees
Watch and you’ll see them come out of the hive
1, 2, 3, 4, 5… They’re alive!
Buzzzzzzz
Itsy, Bitsy Spider
The itsy, bitsy spider,
Climbed up the water spout,
Down came the rain,
And washed the spider out,
Out came the sun,
And dried up all the rain,
And the itsy, bitsy spider,
Climbed up the spout again.
Additional Variations
teeny weeny spider…
great big spider…
Music
- Five Little Flies by MaryLee Sunseri
- I like to perform this song with a cow puppet. I put picture of 5 flies up on the board and pretend that the cow puppet swats them away with his tail.
- The Ants Go Marching by MaryLee Sunseri
- Although there are many different versions of the song, I like the version on Sunseri’s “Grasshoppers Three” album because it stops at 6. 10 is a little bit long for toddlers to manage.
Storytime Shenanigans 