Two Bad Ants is a 1988 children's book written and illustrated by American author Chris Van Allsburg.

They experience misadventures: they land in a cup of coffee (after a giant spoon shovels up the sugar cubes into the coffee and gets the ants out), almost get toasted on an English muffin (after mistaking it for a giant disc—a "hiding place disc"—with holes), fall into a sink, get threatened by its garbage disposal unit, and are nearly electrocuted when they enter an electric outlet.

Chastened, they rejoin a line of ants carrying sugar cubes back to the colony.

In Philip Nel's analysis, a conflict between the book's plot and its illustrations leads to artistic tension.

While the ants' return to the colony suggests "a victory for the bosses" and the narrative could be considered a "capitalist parable", the comparatively huge appliances in the kitchen, which terrify the ants, imply conspicuous consumption.