Number Ladybugs

As some of you know I have decided to homeschool Boog and since I am short on funds I have been making a lot of his school supplies myself. Boog has started to show an interest in numbers so I decided to help him out by making some number ladybugs for him. These are really easy to make and you can honestly make them from anything you have around the house. I decided to go with rocks because I've been clearing them out of our flower beds and also because Boog just loves collecting rocks.

The lady bugs are very easy to make. You just paint the body red, add the black head, then add the correct number of dots to each ladybug body. I'm sure you can even do this with bees where you count the stripes on the bees body.



I used acrylic paint do paint the bodies, then added a few coats of clear nail polish so the paint wouldn't chip off and to give the ladybugs a nice smooth finish.

After they had fully dried I turned them over and added correctors on the back. This way if Boog has trouble figuring one out he can easily turn it over and match the numbers. I also made him so counting cards so he can match the ladybugs with them.

I didn't have any black stickers to put on the cards so I used some neon ones I had and colored them in with a black sharpie. I then added them to an index card and wrote the number on the bottom left corner of each card. This way he can easily match the ladybug to the card either counting the dots or turning the ladybug over and matching the numbers together.

We haven't worked with these yet but next week I will be introducing him to them and hopefully he really enjoys them.