Caterpillar Toe Print Craft for Kids. goes well with "foot butterflies", yes? :) @Amanda Snelson Lynn

Caterpillar Pattern Boards - Preschool math or busy bag activity and great addition to a unit on Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".

As a children's librarian, I love Pinterest. When I have a program to plan and need some ideas, it is my "go-to" place to start. We are doing a special story time next Wednesday to celebrate The Very Hungry Caterpillar's birthday, but needed some craft ideas for preschoolers. After searching Pinterest, I found this picture, but there was no pattern. This morning I designed a pattern from the picture and cut out pieces for our program. Here's what I came up with: We started with a 4-inch wide…

Two things for you in this post. So stay a bit! 🙂 After the video is a free printable to create this Ziploc Baggie Caterpillar that is similar to the larger one for the apron found in this packet. First, I created a video showing me putting together a Caterpillar Apron. I put 24 together for …

This week we worked on part two of our Insects Unit! We were so excited coming in to the week knowing we would be learning more about insects! We did activities with each insect that were both fiction and nonfiction, hands-on, and lots of fun! Our week ended celebrating all of the insects that we […]

Emma and I did several projects over the summer that ended up being a little bit too difficult for Chloe to fully participate like: turning this Into this This is so simple to do. All you need is a good deal on a lamp, some cupcake holders, and some earring posts and backs (pack of 30 pieces at hobby lobby for $1.99), and spray paint. We spray painted our thrift store lamp ($1.49) and then turned the cupcake holders inside out and pinned them on the shade.. Easy Peesy... But, since it…

FREE Very Hungry Caterpillar Sight Word Game. Fun, motivating way to practice reading, spelling and writing sight words.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities

This Very Hungry Caterpillar Sequencing activity is a fun and creative way to teach young children how to order events and re-tell a story!

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Tissue Paper "Very Hungry Caterpillars" in the Style of Eric Carle, Eric Carle Children's Art Project via RainbowsWithinReach

Gathering the recycling one day, our daughter pointed to a bunch of bottle caps that she had lined up in a row and said "look it's a caterpillar"! The imagination of preschoolers is amazing to watch. We laughed and called her creation a "cap-er-pillar" and then got the idea to turn the caps into a craft. This caterpillar craft is simple to do and your kids will enjoy working with a different material. This cute little bug makes a great bug craft or spring craft too.

Make a sensory tub inspired by the classic story The Very Hungry Caterpillar for creative and playful storytelling with kids! Using story props and sensory play materials is a fantastic way to bring favourite stories to life for young children. It encourages oral storytelling, sequencing, thinking about main characters and events and is a perfect...Read More »