Garden Bug Friends

Instructions

Flower Blossom 

1. Use toothpicks and glue to form a ring of smaller balls around a larger ball to create a flower blossom.  Paint the blossoms in your favorite color and let it dry completely.  
2. Glue a wood dowel into the bottom of the flower to create the stem. Wrap green chenille stem to cover the dowel.  
3. Cut leaf shapes from the green foam sheet and glue in place on the stem. 

Bumblebees 

1. Glue two balls of different sizes together to form a bee. Paint the body yellow and let it dry.   
2. Use black chenille stems to form the antennae, mouth, and stripes and glue them onto the bee.  Cut  
3. wings from the white foam sheet and glue to the back of the bee.   
4. Glue wiggle eyes in place to bring the bee to life. 

Butterfly 

1. Glue several balls together to create the butterfly’s body.  Paint the body yellow and let it dry.   
2. Cut wings from the orange foam sheet. Then glue the wings to the back of the butterfly.  
3. Slice small foam balls in half, paint them yellow, and let them dry. 
4. Glue the half-balls onto the wings as decorative spots. 
5. Glue black chenille stem mouth and antennae in place.   
6. Finish the look by adding wiggle eyes with glue.. 

Snail 

1. Create the snail shell by gluing a ring of small foam balls around a larger one using toothpicks and glue. 
2. Attach two small foam balls to the bottom of the shell for the neck, and a larger one for the head. 
3. Paint the entire snail blue and let it dry completely. 
4. Cut an oval from a blue foam sheet and glue it to the bottom of the snail as the base. 
5. Add a spiral of black chenille stem to the shell for details. 
6. Use more black chenille stems to form the mouth and antennae. 
7. Finish by gluing on wiggle eyes.