How to Make a Cutout Ladybug

The simple shape of a ladybug makes it easy to cut out.

Cutout ladybugs are a colorful way to decorate a summer party using items commonly found around the house. These decorative bugs can be placed along the center of an outdoor party table or taped to porch posts and the back of chairs. You can even use the cutout bugs for games, invitations or anywhere that needs a little bit of party color. The regular bug colors are black and red, but you can make these bugs in any two colors that you like.

Things You'll Need

• Construction paper
• Plastic bowl
• Black marker
• Scissors
• Hole punch
• Chenille wire
• White glue

Instructions

1. Place a bowl upside down over red and black construction paper. Trace an outline of the bowl onto the paper and cut out the circles using scissors.

2. Cut the red circle in half and round off the pointed edges. Cut a black circle half the size of the bowl. Cut your black circle in half. Glue the half circle to the big black circle so that the round side of the small circle bumps out from the top of the big circle to form a head.

3. Cut two small white circles for eyeballs. Sometimes you can punch the eye circles out of white paper using a hole punch. Glue two eyes to the ladybug head. Use a black marker to make a dark round pupil on the white circle looking to one side.

4. Cut or punch black circles and glue the dots to the red wings in a random pattern.

5. Position the wings on the black body so that the line in the middle of the wings is centered on the head. Poke a small hole through the top of the wing and body. Cut chenille wire 3 or 4 inches long. Insert the wire through the underside of the body and out the wing hole. Bend the chenille wire in a small spiral. Repeat for both wings.

6. Turn the bug over. Glue the chenille wire to the underside of the bug head. Where the wire emerges above the head, twist the wire into antennas for the bug.

References

• Party In A Box: Ladybug Party Ideas