Bug Buddies Studies 4 - Golden Tortoise Beetle

Changing Colors (Daniel and Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane)

The following crafts and activities go along with the Bible lesson "The Best Kind of Armor" from the Bug Buddies Study Home School Series of Lessons. This lesson is available on The Resource Room and as an instant digial download.

Teaching Concepts:

Biblical: Golden Tortoise Beetles change their colors when they are disturbed or stressed. People can also change their colors, or act differently in different circumstances. Jesus wants us to always act like Christians and stand up for what is right no matter what the circumstances.

Scientific: Children learn how and why Tortoise Beetles change colors and study other animals that change colors.

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Changing Colors Fill-in-the-Conversation Bubble Activity and Coloring Sheet

Children study the picture and fill in the conversation bubbles with what they think the bug characters might be saying and thinking. They can also write a story to go along with the activity sheet.

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Bible Verse Review Game

Children take turns turning over the cards one at a time. The first card should be the first word of the Bible verse. If it isn't, the child loses his turn and the next child tries to find the first word of the verse. If he finds the first word, he leaves it turned over and looks for the second one, then the third until he turns over a word that is not in order. When he turns over a word that is not in the right order he loses his turn and turns all the cards back over and the next child tries to turn all the cards over in order.

If this is too hard, you can just have the children take turns picking a card. If they turn over a card that is the next card in the verse, they get to keep the card. If they don't, they lose their turn, and the next child tries to find the next card. The child who has the most cards wins.

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Bible Verse Review Game 2

The object of the game is to be the first player to collect each of the Bible verse cards to make the complete verse or get to the end of the strip first.

To play each player places his bug on the start square. Each player rolls a die, and the player with the highest number goes first. The player rolls the die again to see how many squares he can go. If a player lands on a square that has part of the verse that he has not collected, he gets to keep a card matching that square. The player to collect all three cards or get to the finish line first wins.

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New Word Leaf Cards

As your children read about tortoise beetles have them write words on the leaf shapres that they do not know. Older children can write the definition on the back of the leaves.

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Children look up the Bible verse in their Bibles and then search for each word of the verse in order to review the verse.

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Rejoice Evermore Tortoise Beetle Coloring Sheet

Show your students pictures of tortoise beetles and have them paint their rocks to look like golden tortoise beetles. One can be painted red and the other gold to remind the children that the beetles can change colors.

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Rock Art Tortoise Beetles

Show your students pictures of tortoise beetles and have them paint their rocks to look like golden tortoise beetles.

"How Tortoise Beetles Change Colors Golden Tortoise Beetle-shaped Book

When children flip over the side of the beetle it changes colors.

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Other Animals that Change Colors Triangle Booklet

Ask your child if he knows what the animal on the cover is. Show him the three words and ask him if he can pick out the correct word. Have him glue the word "squid" onto the back of the picture. Do this with the other two pages. Glue the Bible verse to the middle inside of the booklet.

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Guess What Bug I Am and What I'm Doing Game

Write the following descriptions on separate pieces of paper, fold them up, and place them in a bag. Have children take turns picking a piece of paper out of the bag and act out the bug and what it is doing:

1. Bug stuck in a web

2. Praying Mantis catching a bug and eating it

3. Ant carrying something twice its size

4. Roly-poly rolling

5. Spider spinning a web

6. Bee dancing telling other bees where to find honey

7. Beekeeping hive cool

8. Mosquito biting someone

9. A bee stinging someone

10. Inchworm crawling on a branch

11. Dung beetle rolling dung

12. Caterpillar changing to a butterfly

13. Butterfly drinking nectar