Age Group: Infants & toddlers
Ten Little Lady Bugs introduces concepts of literacy and math in a fun and engaging way. This book is great for reading with your child because it supports contribution from both the parent and child. By encouraging your child to touch and feel the 3-D ladybugs, you can begin to show them how they are able to contribute (through backwards counting) and to reading and understanding book handling.
You can also read Five Little Ladybugs, or Five Silly Monkeys and Five Wishing Stars. These are books also written by the same author, that incorporate the same ideas as Ten Little Ladybugs, but focus on the numbers 1-5.
Finger Play
After creating this activity, had another idea! To help children get involved and interested in reading, you can create a finger play to go along with the reading. This is easy and cheap! You can use gloves, colored felt (maybe red, black, green, yellow, orange) velcro and glue to create little ladybugs that can go on and off the gloves. I created a similar finger play with black gloves, green felt for leaves, and I found little ladybug buttons to glue on to the leaves.
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