These free printable bug dot marker coloring pages are a no-prep fine motor activity for toddlers and preschoolers. They also help teach vocabulary, letter and word recognition, and handwriting skills!
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Please note the careful use of the word "bug" for this post.
These dot marker pages include a variety of insects and things that aren't insects, like a scorpion and a worm, but that are generally considered creepy crawlies.
If you're teaching a strict insect unit and want to leave these pages out, go for it. If you're generally teaching about invertebrates or garden critters, leave them in. Either way, I hope you enjoy.
For more bug themed printables, be sure to check out these posts:
- Insect trace and color pages
- Bee coloring pages
- Cute bug coloring pages
- Bee cut and paste craft
- Butterfly cut and paste craft
My daughter loves dot painting printables. If your little one loves do a dot markers, too, be sure to check out these additional free printable do a dot pages.
How to use dot marker printables
These pages were based on the measurement of my daughter’s Classic Do a Dot Markers. The circles are perfectly sized for this brand of markers, but they also work fine with other dauber style markers.
Print at 100% scale to ensure that the circles are the correct size.
For an easy, no-mess activity, use these dot printables with round label stickers. This makes a great quiet activity for car rides, plane trips, and doctor’s offices.
Make sure to get ⅝″ or ¾″ round stickers – 1″ round stickers are too big for the circles on the printables.
These pages can also be used with manipulatives or turned into a gluing activity when you glue things like pom poms or circle cereal in each blank dot.
Each page also incudes a critter-related vocabulary word. These are in a large bubble font so your child/students can rainbow write, color, or use play dough to make the letters.
Not sure of what the difference between a cricket and a grasshopper is?
A cricket has combs on its legs and rubs its legs together to make sound. Grasshoppers have smooth legs and rub their wings together to make their signature sound.
If you look closely, you'll see the difference in these dot marker pages!
Free bug dot marker pages previews
This set of critter dab it coloring pages includes 15 images:
- pill bug (rolly polly)
- mantis
- butterfly
- ladybug
- caterpillar
- ant
- bee
- dragonfly
- cricket
- beetle
- lightening bug
- grasshopper
- centipede
- earthworm
- scorpion
Free bug dot marker pages download area
Like other free printables on The Artisan Life, these are for personal and single classroom use. This other use with scout groups, homeschool co-ops, Sunday school classes, your own therapy clients, etc.
You are not licensed to sell, or redistribute the files to other adults for use with their students/children. Instead, please refer them to this post so they can download their own copies.
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I hope your little learner loves these but do a dot pages as much as mine does! Make sure to get additional free printables for spring from the posts below:
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