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The Grouchy Ladybug Mixed Media Collage

September 1, 2015 by ami 1 Comment

Story Art: The Grouchy Ladybug from Walking by the Way

I hosted my nieces for a few days of books, art, and cooking fun. As I was planning for their visit, I found inspiration for this project on Artsonia. It didn’t have any instructions, so I decided to deconstruct and reconstruct it. The girls loved their ladybug artworks!

Literature Connection

This project is perfect for The Grouchy Ladybug and Are You a Ladybug?

Ladybug Books for Ladybug Collage Art Project

Supplies

  • Oil Pastels 
  • scissors
  • glue stick
  • circle tracer (optional)
  • construction paper scraps: greens and brown
  • large 12×18 construction paper, color of child’s choice for background
  • white construction paper or bristol board or other heavy white paper for drawing and coloring ladybugs
  • black marker

Supplies for Ladybug Mixed Media Collage Art

Directions for Ladybug Mixed Media Collage

1. Rip piece of brown paper horizontally. This is the dirt. Glue to background paper.

Ladybug Art for The Grouchy Ladybug

2. Cut out strips of grass from the green papers. Glue to the background paper.

Ladybug Art for The Grouchy Ladybug

3. Using oil pastels, draw ladybugs. I gave the girls the option of tracing a circle first. After the circles were traced, I demonstrated how to draw a line across the body. The girls used oil pastels to color one half black and the other half red. Students can determine how many ladybugs they want and the sizes of each.

I took a minute to show them how wonderfully bright yet wonderfully messy oil pastels could be! We used red FIRST and then black so that are red bodies didn’t get smudged.

Art Project for The Grouchy Ladybug

4. Add black spots to the ladybugs. A few or a lot!

Ladybug Art for Eric Carle's Grouchy Ladybug

5. Cut out ladybugs. Glue them to the background.

6. Add legs and antennaes with a black marker.

Grouchy Ladybug Gallery

Ladybugs Mixed Media Art Collages

Find more art projects based on children’s literature on my Story Art Pinterest Board.

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Filed Under: art, kindergarten, Story Art Tagged With: art and children's books, art and literature connection, art projects for picture books, oil pastels, story art, The Grouchy Ladybug art

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  1. Susan Evans says

    September 2, 2015 at 2:44 pm

    What a cute art activity for young kids! My kids always loved ladybugs.

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