Turn a plastic or Styrofoam bowl upside down. Paint the bowl red and then use black paint to add spots. Give the students black construction paper. Have them cut out semicircles with safety scissors. Staple a black semicircle to the rim of the bowl. Give your students small googly eyes. They will glue the googly eyes to the semicircles. Cut pipe cleaners into 2-inch segments. Give six pieces to each student. Students will bend the pipe cleaners in half. Staple three pipe cleaners to the rim on each side of the bowl to make the ladybug's legs.
Separate each cup from the egg cartons and give one to each student. Students can color the cups red with markers or tempera paint. Students can then paint the heads black and add black spots to their ladybugs. After the ladybugs have dried, a teacher should poke three holes in each side of the ladybug and two holes on the head. Give each student three long black pipe cleaners and one short black pipe cleaner. The long pipe cleaners will go from one end of the ladybug and through the other, to create three legs on each side. Students then bend the legs so that the ladybug stands. The short pipe cleaner is folded in half and placed through the two holes in the head as antennae. Use white paint for eyes or glue on googly eyes.
Give each student a red circle cut from construction paper, as well as several small black circles cut from construction paper and a black semicircle that is the same width as the red circle. Each student uses a glue stick to attach the ladybug's head and spots. Legs and antennae are made with black pipe cleaners. Students glue googly eyes onto the head. Finally, each student glues his ladybug to a craft stick to make his very own ladybug puppet.
Give each student a small terra cotta flower pot. The students will use red acrylic paint to paint the flower pots. Once the paint dries, turn the pot upside down. The students will draw spots and faces on the pots with black marker. Loop a long piece of string through the holes of a button; the button should be larger than the hole in the pot. Place the string through the hole in the pot, with the button on the outside. Make a loop at the top for hanging the pot. Thread another button on the string so that it is on the inside. Tie the string to hold both buttons in place. The ends of the tied-off string should extend down below the bottom of the upside-down pot. Tie beads to the two strings so that they remain inside the flower pot and provide the sound of the wind chime. Cut black circles out of construction paper or craft foam and tie one to the bottom of each string as feet.