You could also add an extra dimension by using the colour dice as well as the number dice. The first person to fill their jar with bugs wins.įor older children use two dice and add both numbers together to practice simple addition. Using a regular dice, each player takes turns to roll the dice and put that number of bugs in their jar. The more players you have the more bugs you will need. To play this game, give each player a playing board and place a pile of bugs in the middle of the table. This version of the game introduces simple maths concepts such as number recognition and one to one correspondence. If you roll a colour and you don’t have any bugs of that colour left you miss a turn, and the first to get all their bugs in the jar is the winner. If you want to play a game that has a winner, you can give each child a matching set of coloured bugs – say 3 of each colour. This can be played as a non-competitive game which is great for kids who are just learning how to take turns and follow rules. Use the dots to make a colour dice and have each player takes turns to roll the dice and then put that colour bug in their jar. The more players you have the more bugs you’ll need. To play this version of the game, give each player a playing board and place the bugs in the middle of the table. You can begin to introduce simple game play ideas like taking turns with this easy game. This is an easy, non-competitive game for a small child who is learning colours. Without using the dice, just arrange the playing boards and bugs on the table and encourage your child to sort the bugs into the jar with the matching coloured lid. This version of the game is easy, and perfect for little ones. How you do that will depend on what version of the game you want to play. The idea behind this catch a bug game is really simple, fill up your jar with cute little bugs. We just used a simple glue stick to glue ours on and it worked well. Cut them out and glue them on to your extra dice or onto a small square wooden block. Cut out each bug’s circle to make the playing pieces.Īt the bottom of the bug sheet is a set of six coloured dots, use these dots to make a colour dice. Depending on how you play the game and how old your child is you will need to print out multiple copies of this sheet. You can laminate or contact the game boards for extra durability if you like. The catch a bug game printable contains six different game boards with a big jar on each sheet. Please remember that the printables at are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options. This printable is an A4 sized is a multi page pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. You can download the Catch a Bug printable game here.
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