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5 Little Ladybugs {Song & Fingerplay}

by Angela Thayer 6 Comments

To wrap up our week on ladybugs, I wanted to share with you a fun ladybug song and fingerplay! My son and I made up this song together, and it is similar to one of his favorite songs (5 Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree). I put little ladybugs on his 5 fingers to make this a fingerplay. If you are not familiar with fingerplays, then I recommend reading this post from Teach Preschool.

For this activity, I used 5 ladybugs and washi tape from Michaels Craft Store.

supplies for ladybug song

I decided to use washi tape to make it stick to my child’s fingers. To assemble, I just wrapped tape around a finger (leaving one side a little longer) and then I pulled back the tape and tucked it under. That way there was a sticky side on top. To demonstrate, I’ll show you my lovely (dry) hands…

Tape

Then I just stuck a ladybug on the sticky tape. The ladybugs I bought came with wire sticking out of the bottom. I just pulled that off and only used the ladybug. Here’s what it looked like on my preschooler. (By the way, I wish I could rub off that dinosaur tattoo…)

5 Ladybugs

ladybugs

5 Little Ladybugs Song

Here are the lyrics to the song:

5 Little Ladybugs Song To download a PDF copy of this, click here —> 5 Little Ladybugs

Now to see it in action…here is a video of my son and I singing the 5 Little Ladybugs song. After each verse, he took off a ladybug (and handed it to little brother). Enjoy the video!

Hope you enjoyed our activities with ladybugs this week! In case you missed a post, here are the links to the other activities on ladybugs:

Ladybug Craft

Ladybug Life Cycle Printables & Sensory Bin

Have a great weekend and see you back here soon!

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  1. Debbie@ http://kidsbibledebjackson.blogspot.com/ says
    May 16, 2014 at 11:01 pm

    This looks like fun! Pinned it!
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  2. Emma says
    May 17, 2014 at 11:19 am

    The tape on their fingers to go with the song is such a great idea!

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  3. Gloria Ash says
    March 11, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    I just love your website and just want to thank you very much for your helpful ideas.
    I am a Grandma and I also teach Preschool – Kindergarten children in Sunday School at our church and these are all great for keeping our children busy & active participants in our class!

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  4. Sharon says
    March 27, 2019 at 1:53 pm

    Thank you for your ideas.I love everything about on your website.These help me a lot in making program plans for my dayhome..

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  5. Cynthia Rae Ellison says
    April 1, 2020 at 11:52 am

    Thank you for these darling and educational activities. I am doing an insect theme for 3 grands, ages 5, 3 and 18 months. These will be perfect and I thank you for sharing them!

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