Paper Plate Ladybug Craft

What you'll need:

• 3 small paper plates
• Red and black paint
• Red and black construction paper
• Disposable foam paint brushes
• Scissors
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Hole punch
• Pipe cleaners

• Cut the center circle out of one of the paper plates. Paint the circle black.
• Paint the second paper plate (the whole plate) black.
• Cut the third paper plate in half and then paint both halves red.
• Glue the black circle to the underside of the black paper plate.
• Glue the red halves to the black paper plate body so that they are split a little bit (so you can see some of the black body underneath them).
• Dip the handle end of one of the paint brushes in black paint and use it to make the spots on the red ladybug wings.
• Cut 6 thin strips of black construction paper that are all the same length. Accordian fold the strips and glue them onto the underside of the body, 3 on each side.
• Use your hole punch (or if you don't have a hole punch have an adult poke two holes in the ladybug's head with scissors) to punch two holes in the ladybug's head near the body. Stick half of a pipe cleaner into each hole and twist very slightly at the bottom so they don't fall out.
• Glue two googly eyes onto the head.
• Cut a smile out of red construction paper and glue onto the head.