Your child will love making these Kissing Love Bugs together!  You can give your child the freedom to be creative – choosing colors and stick-on doodads to decorate the love bugs. Their big heart lip kisses will bring giggles too.    

Materials

Colored construction paper – I chose pink, red, and white

Pencil

Scissors

Ruler

Glue Gun

3″ x 4″ piece of thick cardboard 

Double sided tape

Glue Stick

Misc sparkly stickers, sequins, gems, and pom-poms

Sparkly foam heart stickers

Color pipe cleaners

4 Googly eyes

 2 toilet paper size cardboard rolls 

Making the Kissing Love Bugs

1) Choose a color paper for the body and the wings of your love bugs. 

2) For the wings, fold the paper in half and cut out a heart shape.  Be sure to make the heart wide to show when attached to the tube.

3) Cut the paper for the body to the size of the cardboard tube.  

4) Use the glue stick to wrap the paper around the cardboard tube.

 5) Have your child decorate the heart with stickers, gems and sequins. 

6) Cut two thin strips of contrasting paper that can wrap around the cardboard tube to add some interest to the body.

7) Create the mouth by placing two sparkly sticker hearts overlapping bottom to bottom on a piece of paper.  Cut out the shape.

8) Fold the hearts in half with the sparkly side inside, then fold back all four curved edges.

9) Attach the lips, googly eyes and wings to the cardboard tube with double sided tape. Be sure when attaching the lips to line up the two love bugs to ensure that their lips are aligned.

10) Glue pom-poms on each side of the top of the cardboard tubes.

11) Cut a pipe cleaner and twist the ends around a pencil to curl them.  Fold the piece in half and tape the pipe cleaner to the inside top back of the tube.

2) Take the 3″ x 4″cardboard piece and wrap it in colored paper with the glue stick to create the platform.

13) You can decorate the platform.  Be sure to keep the decorations to the front of the platform to allow room for the love bugs.

4) Hot glue the love bugs to the platform, and position them so that their lips touch.

Loving on these love bugs!