One way to conquer your fear of bugs is to draw pictures of the bugs that scare you the most. Or if you love particular bugs, draw a picture of your favorite bugs. Look at a book of bugs or Dave's Garden Insect and Bug database for examples of some bugs to draw. If you want to create bug portraits, take a trip outside and see if you can find any bugs to pose for you. Then sketch one up on the fly. Later you can go back and add more details, colors and appropriate shading.
If you don't want to start your bug drawing from scratch, print out insect coloring pages online at websites such as Enchanted Learning. Once you have a few suitable bug coloring pages, use crayons or colored pencils to shade in your bug. Whether you want to use realistic bug colors or render your bug in a more fantastical manner, it's up to you.
Kids who enjoy to sculpt may find it more fun to create ceramic bugs than to draw bugs. Use clay or Play-Doh as your bug's body. Although gifted sculptors may want to create clay legs and antennas as well, pipe cleaners or straws will also do the trick. Once you have your bug shape, follow your material's drying instructions. Then use ceramic paints to give your clay bug the appropriate amount of color.
For more abstract sculptures, look around your house for spare items to fit together into a bug shape. String, pillows and scrap wood are just a few of the items you may find around the house. Think of the bug you want to create and then look around the house for items that resemble your bug's body parts. Use tape, glue or Velcro to attach your various bug parts.
For a more dexterous bug art activity, try to create your favorite (or most feared) bugs out of paper. The Paper Folding website has a large selection of insect models to serve as inspiration. Due to copyright restrictions, the website does not have specific diagrams but it does have pictures from a great origami insect book that you can purchase for actual diagrams.
Even if you don't have experience with origami, try to create a bug out of paper. With a pencil, make your bug outline. Then cut along the lines until you have your basic bug shape. Attach legs, antennas and bug textures with additional pieces of paper. For a simple paper spider, crumple paper into a ball to serve as the body. Wrap the paper with tape so it holds shape. Next, cut out eight paper legs and tape or glue them to the body. Once you have one paper spider, play around with various sizes and shapes for additional paper spiders.