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The kids and I saw these and decided to try to make our own. We love how our love bugs came out! This is what we used: foam, googly eyes, pipe cleaner, puff ball, toothpick, glue, gluegun (optional), and a heart puncher (optional).

First, I cut a piece of foam down to about 1×8 inches. Then I folded it accordion style and stick the toothpick through it.

 
Next, I let the kids stick the pipecleaner through the hole I just made in the foam.

Cut the pipeclaner down a fold the ends a bit so that the foam will not slide off of it.  While the kids did that, I cut the rest of the pipecleaner down to make the antennae. I also used my heart punch to punch little hearts from the reamaining foam.  Next, I used the glue gun to glue on the antennae. While that dried, I glued the eyes onto the puff ball head and then I glued the head where I just glued the antennae.

 
Finally, the kids used glue to glue the little hearts onto the antennae and along the body of their bug. You may want to use a glue gun for this part too, unless you have super patient kids….mine were not that happy about having to wait for their bugs to dry!  🙂
And, there you have, your very own love bug!!!

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  1. Chels

    February 19, 2010 at 7:25 pm

    Today I tweeted about these! http://twitter.com/FantasticFind/statuses/9348910347!! I will be making them with my kids this weekend! ♥

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  2. Chels

    February 18, 2010 at 4:25 pm

    That is so adorable, fun, and cute! Love it! ♥

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  3. Nicole {tired, need sleep}

    February 12, 2010 at 8:04 pm

    These are too cute! I’m going to save this idea for when we do a bug mini-unit. Soooo cute!

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  4. Rhymes and More..

    February 12, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    this is so cool..want to try it out

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