Bug in a Box

What You’ll Need:

• empty cardboard oatmeal container
• scissors
• paint
• paper, twigs, or dried leaves
• glue
• stiff paper

How to Make It:

1. Measure one inch up from the bottom of a cardboard oatmeal container. Ask an adult to cut off the top part, but keep the lid. Cut a hole in the center of the bottom section or box, large enough to fit your index finger through. Paint the lid and the box inside and out.

2. Use paper, twigs, or dried leaves to decorate the inside of the box. Glue them in place, but do not cover the hole.

3. Cut a bug shape smaller than the width of the box from stiff paper. Decorate it. Make a paper ring to fit the tip of your index finger. Glue the bug to the top of the ring.

4. Put an index finger through the hole, and put the bug on your fingertip. Then replace the lid. Hold the bug box in the palm of your hands.

5. To introduce your friends to your pet bug, take off the lid and wiggle your finger to make the bug move.