Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft

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Fans of Eric Carle’s popular children’s book will love this adorable Very Hungry Caterpillar craft for preschoolers.

Help bring the story to life with this fun caterpillar book activity. The free printable template makes it so easy to create.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a classic childhood story that little ones love! From the gorgeous artwork to the fun holes kids love to put their fingers in, little ones love watching the caterpillar hatch, eat all.the.things, and transform into a beautiful butterfly.

This adorable spring craft is great for use alongside the book. However, it can also work well within a unit study of caterpillars/butterflies, bugs/insects, or general spring activities.

Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft

With just a few simple supplies and the free printable craft template (which you can download below), kids can create this fun puppet craft and use it to act out the story as you read it aloud over and over again.

What You’ll Need

• colored cardstock
• green and red pom poms
• craft glue
• craft stick
• googly eyes
• pencil
• scissors
• free printable template (below)

What You’ll Do

Grab a green colored cardstock paper for the pom pom caterpillar base pattern.

Trace and cut out the base pattern from the green cardstock paper.

Cut out a small round shape from a black paper and 2 long and thin teardrop patterns from purple paper.

Grab a red colored pompom and stick 2 googly eyes on it.

Stick the small round black shape below the eyes, on the red pompom. 

Lastly, stick the 2 purple teardrop shapes on the top side of the red pompom, above the googly eyes.

Attach the red pompom on either open end of the green cardstock base cutout.

Grab the green pom poms and start to attach them on the green cardstock base one by one.

Fill the entire green cardstock base with green pompoms. Try using 2 or 3 different shades of green pompoms.

Attach the pom pom caterpillar on a popsicle stick to complete the Very Hungry Caterpillar puppet craft.

PRESCHOOL BOOKS ABOUT BUTTERFLIES

Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about butterflies. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.

If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.

 

Butterflies – Curious kids ages 3 to 7 will be excited to learn about the magical world of butterflies: their beauty, their importance to plant life, and their incredible metamorphosis and migration.

Pinkalicious and the Little Butterfly – Pinkalicious is so excited when Miss Penny brings monarch caterpillars to class. She makes friends with one and watches as it turns into a pinkamazing butterfly!

Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colors – Lucy sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden, along with a bright green beetle, a brilliant blue dragonfly, some red ladybugs, and many more flying and crawling things. But when will the radiant butterfly appear again? 

RESOURCES I LOVE

This wooden butterfly puzzle brain game will promote hand-eye coordination, develop problem-solving skills and improve matching skills. In addition, it can stimulate a child’s imagination and creativity.

This beautiful butterfly lacing toy is great for practicing the sewing motion. It’s made of solid cherry wood, and finished with my homemade organic beeswax polish. The “needle” is attached to the natural cotton “thread” to make it easy to poke through the holes. 

Download the craft template.

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