As a mom, I am so lucky because I have two toddlers who LOVE to read. I combined this love of reading to create this toddler ladybug activity. My mom recently purchased Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth for my kids. How do grandmas always know exactly what to get their grandchildren? Whatever my mom gets my kids is always a huge hit. Grandma for the win!
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My kids love this cute ladybug themed counting book so I knew I had to come up with a fun learning activity for it.
For the activity, we read the book and then learned how to sign numbers 1-10 in American Sign Language (ASL). If you are looking for a good video to learn numbers 1-10 in ASL, here is a great, child-friendly one.
Next, we talked about ladybugs and why they are important. We talked about how they looked (red, spotted with black, small, and round). We also talked about how ladybugs help farmers to be able to better grow their crops.
Finally, we ended our activity by doing a dot marker activity. I printed a free dot marker ladybug sheet from Free Preschool Coloring Pages. The ladybug sheet is towards the bottom, so keep an eye out for it. My oldest is obsessed with our dot markers. I try to put them into our rotation every few days and it’s always a fun activity. If you are on the fence about getting a set of dot markers, I recommend going for it!
Luckily, we already owned this book but if you are looking to buy Ten Little Ladybugs for this activity, but you can grab it on Amazon. If you are able to check the book out from your local library that would also be a great option.
Nicole
Cute idea!
Desiree at Fitmomology
That is such a cute idea! I had that book when my son was little!
Sarah
This is a super cute idea! Love anything that encourages a love of reading!
Jen
This sounds fun! My littles are out of the toddler stage but love lady bugs! They would probably still think this is fun 🙂
Ngozi
This is such a great idea, and looks like so much fun for little ones!
Two Pink Peonies
This ladybug toddler activity is so much fun!
Lauren
My 3 year old loves ladybugs. Whenever she sees one she calls it “her pet ladybug” and thinks it’s always the same one coming back to visit her 🙂 This looks super cute and she’d love it. Thanks for sharing!
Two Pink Peonies
That is too cute!
Donnya Negera
Love this!! We have the ten little laby bugs
Two Pink Peonies
That’s awesome! Ten Little Ladybugs is such a cute book.
Sara
We used to have that book and I had forgotten about it. There’s a 5-year gap between my youngest and the next oldest child, so we purged a lot of our stuff. My 4 year old would enjoy this book. I’ll have to see if the library has a copy.
J casey
Love this idea! We do themed learning each month and this is perfect for our bug month!! Thanks for the idea!