Younger children may need help making their ladybugs but they will develop their coordination skills learning how to race it. This is a good rainy day activity, but also works as a party game.

What this activity will develop:
Motor and art skills

What you'll need:
• Cardboard or poster board
• Pencil
• Markers or crayons
• Scissors
• Hole punch
• Yarn

What to do:
1. Draw a ladybug. Use markers or crayons to color its back red and its legs, spots, and antennae black.

2. Cut the ladybug out and punch a hole through it.

3. Thread a long piece of yarn through the hole, and knot each end.

Use:
1. Loop one yarn end over the back of a chair or a doorknob.

2. With the ladybug at the other yarn end, step back, pulling the yarn until it is taut.

3. Hold the yarn end with both hands, and move the ladybug along the yarn by shaking the yarn end. Don't touch the ladybug to move it.

4. Hold a race with other players to see whose ladybug is fastest.