Cardboard tube craft garden bugs

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Rummage through the recycling and create these super cute cardboard tube craft garden bugs with the kids.

Cardboard tube garden bugs are a super cute and fun spring craft for pre-schoolers. They’re fun to make, simple and look fab.

What you need for our cardboard tube craft garden bugs

• cardboard tubes
• sheets of coloured or patterned A4 paper
• glue
• sticky tape
• google eyes
• mini pompom noses
• pipe cleaners

How to make cardboard tube craft garden bugs

• Spread the cardboard tube with glue and then wrap the cardboard tube either in stripes for the bee or plain coloured paper for the butterfly body – secure with sticky tape at the back.

• Cut out two circles of coloured paper for the garden bug faces.

• Stick google eyes, pompom nose and little mouth shapes onto the face.

• Cut a pipe cleaner in half and coil the ends into a spiral.

• Using sticky tape attach the pipe cleaners to the inside of the top of the cardboard tubes, behind the face as antenna.

• Cut out the butterfly or bee wing shapes and using sticky tape stick them to the back of the cardboard tube body.

• Decorate the butterfly wings either with cut out paper shapes or stickers.

Enjoy making and playing with your beautiful butterfly and bee crafts!

More garden bug activities to try

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• Pebble Painting – turn your little pebble collection into a group of super cute mini-beasts.

• Bug Mask – have a go at making our huge bug eye mask

• Garden Bug Hunt – grab our free printable garden bug hunt sheet and head off outside to hunt out some mini-beasts.

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