Miss Congeniality would go hands down to the ladybug beetle. Dressed in a smart polka-dotted evening gown, it would stroll sweetly across a child's outstretched palm and charm him or her with a bat of its antennae. Not wishing to be pretentious, it would ask to be called by its familiar ladybug nickname. And then, it would gain even more favor for its noble hobbies: ridding gardens of destructive plant-eating aphids and traveling worldwide spreading luck (as legend has it) to farmers and unsuspecting maidens.
Knowing just how fond kids are of ladybugs, we've decided to celebrate their emergence from winter hibernation with a special tribute. Read on to find a craft, an activity, a game and a treat guaranteed to be as popular with your kids as the spotted namesake that inspired them.
