- Room set up:
Bug posters and pictures
Playdough and insect body parts
Felt bugs
Magnetic bugs
Ick Ack Bug (Tic Tac Doh)
Big Plastic bugs in the library
Bug specimens to view with magnifying glasses
Bug bottles to shake and see bugs

- Live critters:  Meal worms, doodlebugs and crickets are good live specimens 
to have on hand for student to observe. 
(A spider is a bug, but not an insect.  Why?)

- Vocabulary:  abdomen, antenna, exoskeleton, head, thorax
 
- Carry over to classroom project:  Build a habitat for a local insect... 
or order ladybugs.
   

- Other links:
Insect Book List
Pretend Dirt Recipe
Bug Body Song
Cicada Song
Cricket Song
Ladybug Song
Crickets at the EZLab