Jelly Belly and Me~Building with Junk

In honor of Earth Day, Jelly Belly's preschool had a "Build with Junk" Day.  For weeks, we saved all of our recycable junk.  Last week, she learned all about it and ways to help the Earth.

First, we dumped all our junk in the middle of the yard.

Then, we talked about what she wanted to build.  She decided on a house!

Our house had a doggie house, a garden, a tree, a chimey...

I had a blast building with her and later in the week we received this:

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Hunting for Bugs

Jelly Belly got bit by ants last week at her school! or I should clarify ONE ant.  I guess that is what happens when mama is at work and daddy and her decided she should wear flip flops to school. Hey--the weather is finally warm enough and this whole school thing is still somewhat new to us.  We forget we have to follow school rules.  Nevertheless it traumatized her.

  Since then she has been freaking out at the sight of little bugs. 

We were drawing outside this afternoon and she screams at the sight of an ant.  Now I know I am a wimp when it comes to bugs but I certainly do not need her to be.  I ran in her playroom and frantically looked for her magnifying glass.  I come out all excited and tell her to look at the ant.   She gives me the big eyes and says, "let's pretend we are hunters and we are hunting for bugs!"

Yay for her imagination! We spent a good hour outside examining bugs and discussing them. I am no bug expert so I will not share our conversation. The whole time I was wishing I had a good book to go along with it. Any suggestions?
She is still not convinced that every ant she sees will not try to bite her. At least I can tell her, "the only reason it bit you is cuz you eat so many sweets and they were thinking, yummy this jelly belly sure tastes good".